Sentence examples for finally renounced from inspiring English sources

"What if the Provisional I.R.A. finally renounced violence?" I asked.

Mandela and Arafat lead majority movements and have finally renounced terrorism.

I recalled that when Henry James finally renounced working in the theatre a friend asked him whether he could explain why his plays were flops.

Such views were finally renounced by the Roman Catholic Church decades after the Holocaust with the Vatican II declaration of Nostra aetate (Latin: "In Our Era") in 1965, which transformed Roman Catholic teaching regarding Jews and Judaism.

Plural marriage was a serious issue — it kept Utah out of the United States for decades and was finally renounced by the church in 1890 — but it did have its light side.

Half a century of bloodshed in the Basque country has come to a historic close after the separatist group Eta finally renounced the use of arms and sought talks with the Spanish and French governments.

Finally renouncing capitalism, the young king arrives at his coronation dressed instead in the old goatherd-wear.

She keeps coming back to him as if to an art-world bad boyfriend, circling his oeuvre, obsessing and remonstrating -- he amplifies pain unnecessarily, he courts and exalts it -- before finally renouncing him over his collages of Algerian body parts, the last straw in their relationship.

The bishops continued to use the title Bishop of Bath and Glastonbury until finally renouncing their claim to Glastonbury in 1219.

There was no moment of crisis, no particular cataclysm that forced the novelist Will Self finally to renounce the destructive habits that were overrunning his life.

A month later, when the King finally did renounce the throne, Flanner reported that the "abdication was very much like a funeral".