Sentence examples for renounce a from inspiring English sources

A public outcry prompted Mr Varin to renounce a pension pot worth €21m ($29m).

Nor did he renounce a centuries-old battle to regain sovereignty.Spanish conservatives accused him of treason.

The envoy denied that Washington had pressed the former king to renounce a leadership role.

Sully Prudhomme studied science at school but was forced by an eye illness to renounce a scientific career.

Senior MPs today queued up to renounce a pay rise worth almost £1,000 amid fears of a public backlash.

For years Melville was beset by demands that he rewrite, or renounce, a book he had long outgrown.

The logic of such mutually assured destruction MAD, for short required both to renounce an effective missile shield, since its owner might be tempted to attack the other in the belief that it would be safe from a counter-strike.

But that psychiatrist, Dr. Robert Spitzer, has now renounced a study he did a decade ago that suggested that "reparative therapy" can help homosexuals who are highly motivated to change their sexual orientation.

Would it have meant renouncing a crucial aspect of Jewish identity?

These interpretations jibe convincingly with the now famous music Ives wrote after renouncing a musical career.

St. Francis renounced a fat inheritance to dress in rags and tend to lepers.