Sentence examples for for renunciation from inspiring English sources

In 1928, representatives of fifteen countries, including the United States, France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, gathered in the French capital and signed the General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy.

For renunciation of individual aspirations to replace the slain father and a shared sense of guilt in the primal crime led to a contractual agreement to end internecine struggle and band together instead.

The legal basis for convictions of German defendants at Nuremberg for the crime of aggression was the 1928 Treaty for the Renunciation of War or Kellogg-Briand Pact, named for U.S. Secretary of State Frank Kellogg, in which countries renounced "war as an instrument of national policy".

The first provides for the renunciation of all political powers and governmental authority by the Throne for ever, but stipulates that it shall not be regarded as an enforced abdication as marked the endings of the previous dynasties.

For Freud, renunciation made some happiness possible, whereas Reich wanted to know why there had to be renunciation at all.

In another manifesto, espousing a Young Classicism, Busoni called for the renunciation of the sensuous and subjective to "reconquer serenity".

Different versions of the Talmud contain cryptic references to Elisha's heretical acts and the reason for his renunciation of Judaism.

His problems are compounded by the distrust that many in Fatah feel towards him and his policies, especially the young leaders who came to prominence during the intifada.Mr Abbas has received international accolades for his renunciation of violence.

Similarly, by the Treaty of Corbeil (May 1258) Louis himself had abandoned ancient claims to Catalonia and Roussillon in exchange for the renunciation of Barcelona's rights in Gévaudan and Rouergue.

It calls for the renunciation of verbal pomp: "He was overwhelmed by a wave of self-loathing, panic and a sense of loss that, in staccato bursts, flushed the air from his lungs till the moisture in his sleep-starved eyes formed a vitreous glaze that mercifully blurred his reflection in the mirror".

But the agreement was eventually worded in a way that left sufficient interpretive latitude for Briand and other statesmen to see their way clear to signing it, and the result was the General Treaty for the Renunciation of War, also known as the Paris Peace Pact or the Kellogg-Briand Pact.