Sentence examples for instead of renouncing from inspiring English sources

So the Darzi report, instead of renouncing charges, paves the way for them.

The disappointment was that Powell instead turned on Arafat and spoke instead of renouncing terror.

Instead of renouncing its nuclear program, North Korea has in the past year advertised its supposed advances in making nuclear weapons.

A Saudi court has overturned the death sentence of a Palestinian poet accused of renouncing Islam, imposing an eight-year prison term and 800 lashes instead.

Given the choice of renouncing his wife publicly or facing the death sentence for adultery, he renounced.

Mr So has begun the process of renouncing his Canadian citizenship.

He also made a point of renouncing his hectic lifestyle, giving up alcohol and coffee.

Her life became a public tragedy of renounced love.

Instead, he renounced it and stayed in Europe, settling in Switzerland — and making, in his late sixties, the most furiously derisive film that exists on the subject of the American climate of paranoia, "A King in New York" (1957).

Although Ares believed this act would free Kratos to become the perfect warrior, the Spartan instead renounced his pledge of servitude to the god.

No doubt a citizenry schooled in renouncing desire instead of imagining there could be something more would be, in many respects, advantageous.