Sentence examples for forced to renounce from inspiring English sources

Prisoners were reportedly ridden like animals, repeatedly groped and forced to renounce their religion.

India now issues "overseas citizenship" to emigrants forced to renounce their birth nationality by the country's exclusive laws.

It was also at the council that Berengar of Tours was forced to renounce his teachings on the Eucharist.

(Stein named Toklas and Allan Stein executors, but for reasons no longer known they renounced or were forced to renounce this role, and Poe took over).

Even John McCain was forced to renounce his immigration policy to win paranoid voters terrified by an over-exaggerated threat of the brown, illegal immigrant menace.

Thousands of Central Highland villagers and other ethnic minorities were restricted from practicing their religion and many were forced to renounce their faith.

A deputy foreign minister, Gennadi Gatilov, told the Interfax news agency that the resolution was "doomed to failure" unless the demand for Mr. Assad's ouster was dropped and a call for opposition forces to renounce violence was included.

The nun was shut up in her cell and forced to repent and renounce the king.

Finally Rudolf invaded Austria and forced him to renounce all his territories save Bohemia and Moravia (Treaty of Vienna, November 1276).

On that day, the summer solstice, the Inquisition forced him to renounce his theories of a Sun-centered planetary system.

Then John of France died (1364) and Charles V by military action forced Charles to renounce almost all his major claims in France.