Sentence examples for my renouncing from inspiring English sources

I have been aware that, subject to my renouncing my rights of succession, it might have been possible for me to contract a civil marriage.

"I now rededicate my life to the Catholic Church with all my heart, I renounce my life together with Maria Sung and my dealings with Rev. Moon and his Family Federation for World Peace," read the letter, which was dated Aug. 11.

A patriotism that waxes and wanes so volatilely from avoiding my home country for six months at a time and openly considering renouncing my American citizenship, to taking my vacation time to go to a desert in Texas and get a USDA stamp tattooed on my ass.

But once you've opened your presents, stuffed yourself full of turkey and battled with the children over a particularly testing game of charades, the day can get a little, (dare I say it without renouncing my stocking rights for the rest of my life?) dull.

I engaged in negotiations with the Libyan regime as a result of which my group renounced violence on the understanding that we would participate in a process of reform.

Here was an award, I thought, worth renouncing my US citizenship for.

I wouldn't hesitate in renouncing my Britishness, it doesn't bother me in the slightest.

"Before, I was behaving rationally for short periods and I was renouncing my delusions, but I always went back to them," he said.

"Renouncing my citizenship was the last and most consistent act of dissent I could pose against a public policy which I believe is depriving Canada of its right and duty to be one of the world's great countries," he said.

But on renouncing my faith, I lost all the friends I had grown up with.

As much as I resisted this, I couldn't ignore the kernel of truth in what he was saying: I had to stop renouncing my history.