Sentence examples for order to renounce from inspiring English sources

Maybe a radical faction within the Iranian establishment thought it could benefit from conflict, perhaps in order to renounce the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty, or to score some other domestic advantage.

Some former members said they expected the order to renounce its founder, but Mr. Fair said: "He is the founder and he always will be the founder of the order.

As imperial princes, the Roman Catholic German bishops of the 16th century were rulers of their territories; they did not join the Reformation in order to avoid renouncing the exercise of their sovereign (temporal) rights as demanded by Luther's Reformation.

Without rootedness in another, better way (The Way), we easily become fools thinking that we can have our cake and eat it too, overlooking that God calls us to renounce everything in order to follow him.

Ever since the jazz singer Ethel Waters donned a head scarf to portray the self-sacrificing Hagar in the 1939 production of Dorothy and DuBose Hayward's "Mamba's Daughters," black American female characters have, for the most part, had to renounce their sexuality in order to make their mark onstage.

In 1992, a similar breach took place when State Department officials looked up data on then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton, amid rumors that had tried to renounce his citizenship in order to dodge the draft while he was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford during the Vietnam War.

In order to qualify for the tribunate, Sulpicius had to renounce his patrician status.

In order to achieve a compromise, both will have to renounce most of the fundamental concepts that have moulded their world views and which have given them their standing among their peoples.

WASHINGTON -- Eduardo Saverin's decision to renounce his United States citizenship in order to avoid paying taxes on his Facebook stock was "absolutely outrageous," House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told ABC's George Stephanopolous on "This Week".

She was tortured on the orders of a pagan emperor after she refused to renounce her faith.

Dr. Caspary always contended that she and other members of her order, the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, never wanted to renounce their vows.