Sentence examples for first renounced from inspiring English sources

P. W. Botha when he offered to release Mandela provided he first renounced violence.

He first renounced his Republican roots before running successfully for governor as a Democrat in 1978.

He then first renounced his claim to a debt of seven talents due to his father, and encouraged others to follow his example.

He saw in the proletariat pure particularity, and, unlike Marx, denied that this particularity could transform itself into a genuine universal unless it first renounced its own sectional interests.

Abdullah Ocalan, the captured leader of the Kurdish rebels who was sentenced to death by a Turkish court in June, first renounced from his cell even his movement's demand for Kurdish autonomy within Turkey, never mind independence outside it.

The government insists that the Afghan Taliban must first renounce connections with Al Qaeda and agree to accept the constitution.

Crucially, she dropped the preconditions that the Taliban must first renounce violence, sever links with al-Qaida and accept the Afghan constitution.

To clear room for Webber, the Rockets must first renounce Hakeem Olajuwon, and they are reluctant to do so because of what he has meant to the franchise.

Israel has refused to hold peace talks with the autocratic but less ideological Syrian president, Bashar Assad, unless he first renounces ties to Israel's arch-enemies, Iran and Hizbullah.

When Mary first renounces Steve, out of innate decency and professional self-protection, the scene finds a note of real longing, and the human obstacles that stand between the two lovers are disposed of without the cruelty to which coarser movies often stoop.

This conclusion is made stronger if the right to life is inalienable, since in order for me to kill myself, I must first renounce my inalienable right to life, which I cannot do (Feinberg 1978).