Sentence examples for largely renounce from inspiring English sources

Dirigisme flourished in the 1950s and 1960s in France, but sour economic results, uncompetitive enterprises, and declining sectors forced the government to largely renounce dirigisme in the 1980s.

It was a glimpse of what Sigur Ros has largely renounced on its otherworldly mission.

Her third album, "Safe Trip Home" (2008), switched producers, largely renounced electronics and grew more melancholy; it found fewer listeners.

Modern professional philosophy has largely renounced the attempt to answer this question and has restricted itself to the pursuit of more esoteric truths.

They have since largely renounced violence through groups of citizens' patrols known broadly as Awakening Councils — and are eager to translate their role in creating relative calm into political power.

He largely renounced the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with physical and spiritual masks, as well as with cyclical theories of life.

Mobs in Boston and other towns rioted and forced appointed stamp distributors to renounce their posts; legal business was largely halted.

The pledge produced by Mr. Lazio called on the candidates to renounce the use of soft money, the largely unregulated campaign contributions that have proven to be a major benefit for the first lady.

The idea is that Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's apparent decision to renounce weapons of mass destruction was a largely a result of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, which thus retroactively justifies the war in Iraq and holds out the prospect of similar progress with other states that support terrorists, seek weapons of mass destruction and brutalize their own people.

In the 1960s and '70s the Brotherhood's activities remained largely clandestine; also in the 1970s the organization officially renounced violence.

Bill Clinton has since renounced the law, whose main provisions are largely seen as responsible for driving up mass incarceration in the United States.