Sentence examples for a complete renunciation from inspiring English sources

But one leading advocate for gay rights in Washington, speaking anonymously to discuss private conversations with the president's inauguration committee, said that he told officials the comments were "completely inappropriate" and that he asked for a "complete renunciation" by the pastor.

For Orwell, "Creeds like pacifism and anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind".

Nick Lowles, director of Hope Not Hate, which campaigns against extremism, said: "We celebrate Quilliam's efforts here but only a complete renunciation of the violence and hatred the EDL leaders have promoted, and a turning away from the anti-Muslim rhetoric they have championed, will be enough for the many thousands who have suffered from the EDL's ugly actions over the past three years".

One rests on the advocacy of pacifism and the complete renunciation of war as a policy to be adopted by a country.

Mr. Abe has long had an ambition to overturn the constitutional clause that calls for Japan's complete renunciation of war.

Anything less than complete renunciation of their customary religious practices?

Whether Mr. Abe will be able to pursue that ambition — to overturn the constitutional clause that calls for the complete renunciation of war — remains to be seen.

Few of his political colleagues went all the way with him and accepted nonviolence as a creed; fewer still shared his food fads, his interest in mudpacks and nature cure, or his prescription of brahmacarya, complete renunciation of the pleasures of the flesh.

Israel and western aid donors may not accept anything less than a complete and open renunciation of Hamas' traditional stances on the use of violence and Israeli statehood.

The Model Penal Code and several American state codes, however, provide for an affirmative defense if it can be shown that the actor "abandoned his effort to commit the crime or otherwise prevented its commission, under circumstances manifesting a complete and voluntary renunciation of his criminal purpose".

Does it entail renunciation, a complete severing from the political world?