Sentence examples for forsworn it from inspiring English sources

And the controversial data about her daily life, as a financially struggling, twice-divorced single mother of three who at first had defended her desire to go to clubs, drink and smoke — then later announced she'd forsworn it all — didn't hurt.

Were it not for Russia, their argument goes, not only would Edward Snowden now be facing justice in the United States, but President Bashar al-Assad of Syria would have been removed and the civil war ended, Iran would have forsworn its nuclear weapons program, and Ukraine and Georgia would be flourishing democracies solidly anchored in the West.

Croatia has recently returned its old nationalist party to power, although the party has forsworn its earlier ambitions.

But has it forsworn other nastinesses?

Shaanxi has forsworn coercion in its project, which it announced late in 2010 and said would take ten years.

"My suspicion is the administration is so reluctant to create the impression that it is engaging in the kind of military activity that it has forsworn in that region," Hall recently told U.S. News.

It has forsworn nuclear weapons.

While France and Germany remain heavily dependent on nuclear power, Austria and Denmark have forsworn any use of it.

Iran denies that, and asserts that it has forsworn nuclear weapons and is under international safeguards.

Faced with prosecution under America's espionage act, he pled guilty to a lesser charge, after a 2007 television interview in which he denounced the CIA's use of waterboarding.Barack Obama, America's president, says his country has now forsworn the abusive interrogation practices it carried out under his predecessor, George Bush.

For all but a few, country and place of origin continue to loom large in their imaginaries of the future; however, return is by no means taken for granted and for some it is even forsworn.