Sentence examples for prior to renouncing from inspiring English sources

He is notable for being the last Prime Minister to hold office while being a member of the House of Lords, prior to renouncing his peerage and taking up a seat in the House of Commons for the remainder of his premiership.

We have to be able to renounce our prior commitments and hold ourselves to a new ideal.

Prior strategies have either asked too much of straights (like asking them to renounce marriage altogether) or, perhaps, too little (like asking them just to do the right thing at the ballot box).

The group pledged in February to renounce kidnapping altogether, although it has not renounced violence.

* Do you agree to renounce violence?

We are to renounce all foreign securities.

To renounce is weak, reactive, egoistic.

Who wouldn't want to renounce war?

What about Muslims — were they free to renounce their faith?

I didn't want to renounce my Queen".

That would be to renounce my values.