Sentence examples for could be renounced from inspiring English sources

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

Islamic nations were also influenced by the argument that the death penalty was an intrinsic part of Islamic law and could not be renounced in principle, however flexibly it might be applied in practice.

In protest at Britain's involvement in the Nigerian Civil War, its support of America in the Vietnam war and (perhaps jokingly) against "Cold Turkey" slipping down the charts, Lennon returned his MBE medal to the Queen, though this had no effect on his MBE status, which could not be renounced.

The past is renounced, but not fully.

The Bordeaux heritage has not been renounced.

"And now he's renounced violence".

He's renounced hatred, he's renounced bigotry, and he's renounced racism.

Because of the very small variance, its genetic decomposition was renounced.

Their work still relied on the assumption of normally distributed measurement errors, which was renounced by Müller et al [ 11].

The use of statistical methods was renounced due to the limited number of patients in the different sub-groups.

The only alternative to a military assault on the TTP was the always-unlikely prospect that a militant group could be persuaded to renounce violence.