Sentence examples for had foregone from inspiring English sources

I knew that Brown had foregone a pay rise.

The most striking was, "We will not sleep until the regime falls," which Yemenis understand means that the protesters had foregone qat that afternoon (users tend to become lethargic after its stimulant effect wears off).

Going back even further, Thomas Mofolo's Chaka (1925) reached a readership in English only once the author had foregone literature (and the best-known edition came out after he had been evicted under the Bantu Land Act).

A 2010 report into the telecom sector said the government had foregone billions of dollars in potential revenue by giving away mobile phone network licenses on a first-come, first-served basis, rather than by auctioning them to the highest bidder.

Getting more young people to enroll in Obamacare would be a good thing for the program (and for them — a 2011 Commonwealth Fund survey found that sixty per cent of uninsured young adults had foregone care because of costs, and half reported medical debt or trouble paying medical bills).

Current boss Michel Der Zakarian, a former title winner with Nantes in 1983, was under pressure as soon as he guided the team back into the top flight after one year in Ligue 2. His Nantes side had foregone la jeu à la nantaise, the quick-passing style made famous by the academy that produced the likes of Marcel Desailly and Didier Deschamps, and instead scrapped their way to promotion.

He has foregone his severance pay.

Many of them have foregone traditional canes and have turned instead to hiking sticks.

Mazda, virtually alone among major automakers, has foregone hybrid technology in favor of high-compression internal combustion engines.

The four top dogs at AOL Time Warner, a media giant, performed so lousily that they have foregone bonuses altogether.

The others speak as one voice - that despite all the knocks they took along the way, they wouldn't have foregone the experience.