Sentence examples for renege as from inspiring English sources

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While Khamanei has said Tehran won't renege as long as Washington doesn't, both those who accepted the deal as a positive step and those who did so reluctantly as a 'poisoned chalice' are losing enthusiasm.

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Several agreed and later reneged as the end of the court order keeping her on a ventilator loomed.

He continued to stridently support economic rationalism, something he would later renege on as premier.

But I don't stress on that because president Jonathan made a similar promise, and has reneged on his as well".

"We struck up a pact, actually, to both drink nine pints, and he would go off and do his job and I'd do mine," said Muir. "Eventually we went to the RAC Club and ate rather stringy beef and drank a bottle of red together, so he reneged on that as well".

And then, in defiance of regular MP etiquette, he doesn't renege on his promise as soon as he's back in Westminster.

Italy used to do deals with Libya's Colonel Muammar Qaddafi to shut off migration routes for a time, though he would periodically threaten to renege and send as many migrants as possible.

McDonnell will say that May's apparent volte-face over Heathrow expansion demonstrates that she could just as easily renege on her pledge to forge a Brexit deal that benefited all Britons.

The E.C.B. was burned last year when Silvio Berlusconi, then the prime minister of Italy, reneged on reform commitments as soon as the central bank began buying Italian and Spanish bonds to bring down those countries' borrowing costs.

It took two Lib Dem energy secretaries, Chris Huhne and Ed Davey, no time to renege on that as the nuclear construction lobbyists got to work on them.

In parliament last week, I described any such move to renege on replacement as a "breathtaking betrayal" of pledges given to the country, to the parliamentary party and to individual MPs, including me.

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