Sentence examples for renounce in from inspiring English sources

They demand that he renounce in advance the findings of the U.N. tribunal, suggesting that they would return to the coalition if Hariri spurns the search for his father's killers.

The poet Edward Hirsch has described the poems of the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner W.S. Merwin as "concerned not only with what to renounce in the metropolis but also what to preserve in the country".

Tapper, reasonably enough, took this to have been a criticism of the man who is now Scaramucci's boss, and asked how many positions and principles Scaramucci was willing to renounce in return for a White House office.

The Mormon Church contends that the show glamorizes a practice it renounced in 1890.

In Germany, Matthias Erzberger, a Roman Catholic member of the Reichstag, had, on July 6 , 1917 proposed that territorial annexations be renounced in order to facilitate a negotiated peace.

Similarly, the elaborations of the 1980s, the junk bonds and faux finishes, were vehemently renounced in the 1990s in favor of John Pawson architecture, Helmut Lang clothing and Calvin Klein Home.

Accordingly, the islands were not included in the territory that Japan renounced in accordance with the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty after World War II.

Having put it behind him, he went back not to Broadway — which he had generally renounced in the 1960s — but to ballet.

The current American ambassador, James F. Jeffrey, has said he has seen no evidence that the Sadrists have renounced, "in practice or in theory," the idea of using force against opponents.

"We do not see compelling evidence they have renounced, in practice or in theory, the idea that they can use force against their opponents," James F. Jeffrey, the United States ambassador to Iraq, told reporters.

The motion also condemned the MoJ's "unsustainable model for price competitive tendering of criminal defence services" – a mechanism that Chris Grayling, the justice secretary, has already renounced in the face of overwhelming opposition from solicitors.