Sentence examples for on renunciation from inspiring English sources

American managers have not obviously been keen on renunciation in the past decade.But could business schools change this?

From 1342 to 1345 members of both companies were arrested for bankruptcy and released only on renunciation of all claims to interest, and the English crown canceled massive debts to the Peruzzi.

There is something dispiriting about Ms. McDermott's portrait of the Keanes: she focuses single-mindedly on renunciation and mortality in this novel, while ignoring the possibilities of passion and hope that glimmer, fitfully, in her earlier fiction.

In this centum of verses, where each ends with the term "Chandrachudamani" as another name of the god Shiva, the author treats on viragya (ethics of renunciation).

His analysis of the philosophical foundations and methodology of physics played a central role in the so-called Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, based on the renunciation of causality and on the affirmation of the positivist notion that physical concepts must be limited by the possibilities of observation.

Jain writers had to reinvent their art, moving away from the traditional themes of renunciation and tenets to focus on contemporary topics.

It is about intense passion that lives on in renunciation.

Although its outer movements are loud, visceral and celebratory, there is also a central slow movement, based on the Renunciation of Love motif from the "Ring," in which Mr. Rouse gives Alberich qualities Wagner did not.

An overly simple feminist reading of Joan's story might honor her for asserting a claim to male power, but since her autonomy was based on sexual renunciation, Joan's challenge went to the heart of the way male power is exercised, especially in war.

So is the final devotional act some undertake: casting off their shoes, in a show of renunciation, to walk the last miles barefoot on the searing ground.

Without the state apparatus that had long accepted, however grudgingly, ethnic coexistence, and with the murder of Jews made into a sign of renunciation of "Judeobolshevism," intolerable pressure was placed on the native population.