The most radical step to take might be to renounce some portion of our way of life-a step that would have no real effect on the poverty of others but might invest some of us with the courage to begin working for new structures.
But if disapproval of the consumption of shark's fin encourages the Chinese to see it as luo hou (backward), one of the most dreaded of all Chinese epithets, they might want to renounce the stuff anyway.This has already happened with spitting in the streets, which many Chinese now regard as a backward habit.
The most radical step to take might be to renounce some portion of our way of life-a step that would have no real effect on the poverty of others but might invest some of us with the courage to begin working for new structures..
He has declared that the danger of Cambodia's encirclement by the Western nations and their Southeast Asian allies (by which he meant South Vietnam & Thailand) might force him to renounce neutrality & negotiate with China.
For sure, Germany has not been pressing Britain as hard as it might have done to renounce its EU budget rebate, because it does not want to make life harder for Tony Blair at home, as he edges Britain closer to membership of Europe's single currency.
Since the Arab League supports the Palestinian Authority with hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies each year, the administration reasons that the leverage of funding might persuade the Palestinians to renounce attacks on Israeli civilians for the good of progress toward a Palestinian state.
The cause of peace got a lift from another source on Sunday, when the Irish National Liberation Army, a once-feared splinter group of the Irish Republican Army, said it would renounce violence and suggested it might soon relinquish its weapons to disarmament officials.
On the other hand, it might be argued that the freedom to renounce one's religion or to profess not to have a religion is a corollary of the freedom to profess a religion.
She's made an inner memo to renounce flirtations and any consequences that might result from them.
It would offer an excuse some Iranians might sorely want to throw out the nuclear inspectors and renounce the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
