Obviously, there's a limit: It's not like he was going to come on stage and renounce his renouncing of the health-care law that was once his signature accomplishment as governor of Massachusetts, and which formed the basis of Obamacare.
Ida is someone whose nun's habit enforces a reflex respect from those she meets: she is aware that this is something not to be renounced lightly, and the idea of renouncing it in favour of Judaism is an ever-greater wrench.
A1 Bush Promotes Missile System President Bush called leaders of several European and Asian allies to pave the diplomatic way for his plan for a missile defense system and the possibility of renouncing the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty.
Plot is provided by the successive renunciations of his greatest pleasures - alcohol and smoking ("Start stopping smoking NOW"), and the prospect of renouncing life itself: in short - in short and in short I am afraid.
In a first phase, between 9 and 13 July, the Israelis took Lydda and Ramle and reasserted the area around Latrun by taking Salbit, but the forces are exhausted and the High Command renounced to the objective of taking Ramallah.
C1 Democratic leaders in Congress, seizing on the Wall Street scandals to press their agenda on Social Security, demanded that President Bush and the Republicans renounce efforts to shift part of Social Security into private investment accounts.
But Benjamin is also critical of Nietzsche for restricting his approach to aesthetics, and therefore renouncing the understanding of tragedy in historical terms.
When the influential televangelist James Dobson criticized Mr. Bush and talked of renouncing the Republican Party, Mr. Robison rallied support for the governor.
The French took the biggest hit when Russia's debt was wiped out overnight after the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917 and renounced all of the debt from the former Russian monarchy.
Colonel Qaddafi made a peace of sorts with the United States, renouncing terrorism and the production of weapons of mass destruction, turning over individuals suspected in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and paying compensation to the victims' families.
