Sentence examples for be renounced from inspiring English sources

Perhaps we recognise the bedroom as the site of that which our secular society still considers holy: desire, intimacy, the instinct that cannot be renounced, the space between two human beings where civilisation is not welcome.

That does not mean it had to be renounced, its value denied.

Fifty years ago, it seemed the entire edifice would crumble if peerages could be renounced.

But McGrady is one of nine free agents who will probably have to be renounced to clear cap space.

Nothing in all this needed to be "renounced", and there is nothing in Goethe's later writing, with its firm grasp on phenomena, to suggest it ever was.

Iraq owes Russia about $8 billion on loans dating back to the Soviet era; Russia fears the debts will be renounced if there is regime change.

The idea is to shame those who may be renouncing their citizenship solely to escape taxation.

Would they be renouncing their past obtuseness and committing themselves henceforth to the climate campaign?

The papers were legal documents with which the women would be renouncing their claims to asylum and agreeing to self-deport.

Not wanting to deal with these sort of petty politics, Superman tells a state department official that he'll be renouncing his citizenship in front of the United Nations.

The past is renounced, but not fully.