Sentence examples for renounce being from inspiring English sources

"When a little girl dies, we can't allow ourselves to renounce being human beings for the sake of a percentage point".

What she steadfastly refuses to renounce is her belief in loving.

According to Ersbøll (2013) a new trend towards facilitation of acquisition of citizenship is currently emerging, and it even includes the controversial question of dual citizenship: In June 2014, a new law which permits foreigners to become Danish citizens without having to renounce was allegedly approved by the Danish Parliament.

Renouncing one for the other would be like renouncing being a son to become a husband -- or like renouncing my first child when my second is born.

Carne told MPs that the level of bonus that he had renounced was "in the tens of thousands" as missed performance targets would have cut his entitlement anyway.

"Deep Throat," the X-rated film that gave Linda Lovelace a fame she later renounced, is not as popular as it once was.

There is all of that, but the main thing is, we should renounce not because what we are renouncing is something dirty, or something evil or really evil incarnate, but because really there is no such thing as evil.

In the current situation, the risk is again to renounce at being simultaneously part of the movement and part of the institution.

During this time Riding ceased to write poetry, which she renounced as being "inadequate".

(Stein named Toklas and Allan Stein executors, but for reasons no longer known they renounced or were forced to renounce this role, and Poe took over).

But how people renounce faith is likely to follow a pattern similar to acceptance of faith.