Sentence examples for 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.

Anything less than complete renunciation of their customary religious practices?

Pacifism is enshrined in the Constitution, with a clause known as Article 9 calling for the complete renunciation of war.

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

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

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".

Sexual intercourse was forbidden; complete ascetic renunciation of the world was called for.

(Living in accord with Tolstoyan principles would involve complete material renunciation).

For Mayor Johnson, as he completes the renunciation he has now said he will follow, it is clearly a smart move.

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".