Sentence examples for compelled to renounce from inspiring English sources

When Telipinus sought to establish defensible frontiers, he was forced to conclude a treaty with a king of Kizzuwadna named Isputakhsus and was also compelled to renounce his claims on the neighbouring country of Arzawa.

Not quite gunboat diplomacy, the critics say, but an economic power play nonetheless.To allay these suspicions, the British government in March felt compelled to renounce all "mercantilist" ambitions in its dealings with the ACP group.

Even if they are critical of Sharon's leadership, many French Jews resist what the lawyer and activist Serge Klarsfeld has called the pressure to become "political Marranos" -- Jews called upon to renounce Israel much as Jews during the Spanish Inquisition were compelled to renounce their faith.

In the remote southeast and east, about 10percentt of women are in polygamous marriages -- even though the practice is illegal -- and women are still taken by their families for virginity tests or compelled to renounce their legal inheritance in favor of brothers.

I am compelled to renounce any comfort in political palliatives; for me, symbolic gestures neither satiate nor sedate.

In January 1747 he was compelled to resign.

Though Cerf claimed that the contract was not "operational" since he never signed it, the question remains why the word "Accepted" was written over his name on the document, and why he felt compelled to hurriedly renounce the agreement in the same email exchange in which he divested himself of Edison stock.

You all know the reasons which have compelled me to renounce the Throne, but I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country nor the Empire, which as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve.

No doubt the bankers in question would like to compel Bloomberg View to renounce its opinions.

His object was to compel Sigismund to renounce his claims to Sweden, and he hoped to gain his end by the economic pressure that would result from Poland's loss of access to its main export routes to western Europe.

He told the conference: "In renouncing unilateralism the USA has been compelled to cede to allies old, new and improbable, a measure of influence over its own decision making".