Since the Second World War, governments and armies have gradually forsworn weapons that do not distinguish between soldiers and civilians.
A few great novelists — Gaddis, McCarthy — have forsworn quotation marks, but not in the way that Volpi has forsworn them here.
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.
Now I'll stand to it the pancakes were naught and the mustard was good, and yet was not the knight forsworn.
It is vital to know, at a time when all the nuclear powers, whether they have signed the treaty or not, say they have forsworn testing.To test-ban critics, continuing doubts about the activities of China and also Russia at its Novaya Zemlya test site in the Arctic show that a test ban is inherently unworkable because the ban cannot be adequately verified.
Perhaps some genuinely believed that the IRA and the Provos had both forsworn their armed struggle, but many did not.
The Republican State Committee, which is overseeing the Bush campaign in the state, had forsworn filing objections against Mr. Forbes, though not Mr. McCain.
It has not helped that both parties have forsworn "earmarks", which instruct the federal government to pursue congressmen's pet projects the normal grease in the wheels of spending bills.
Not the kind of anger recently forsworn by Mayor Giuliani -- the aggressive, mean-spirited, egocentric kind fired by self-interest -- but the kind that cuts through the Muzak of politics-by-focus-group and causes voters to believe that a candidate might actually believe in something larger than the latest in-house poll.
Not through narrative; Mr. Snow has always forsworn that.
