Sentence examples for renounced control from inspiring English sources

By the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (March 3, 1918), Soviet Russia recognized Finland and the Ukraine as independent; renounced control over Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and most of Belorussia; and ceded Kars, Ardahan, and Batumi to Turkey.

TAKORADI, Ghana — Holed up in a bunker under his residence, Ivory Coast's strongman, Laurent Gbagbo, negotiated the terms of his potential surrender on Tuesday, as opposition forces closed in, his generals called on their forces to lay down their arms and French and United Nations negotiators demanded that he officially renounce control of the country.

His brother, Raúl, helmsman of the erratic Cuban ship since August 2006, when the Sierra Maestra hero renounced total control over the Caribbean island, has proved to be a lamentable orator.

It's as if, in renouncing control, he opened the floodgates to a reality that he couldn't stand touching with his bare hands and gave his revulsion free rein.

In June, the Cuban diplomat Manuel Sanguily wrote to a friend, "Now that they have seen Guantánamo, they will never renounce their control over it".

He was the first Hungarian king to renounce the control of the appointment of prelates in his realms.

On Friday, China's foreign ministry formally renounced the 1984 Sino-British joint declaration, the basis on which Britain agreed to relinquish control of the colony.

Mr. Bush's expected announcement that the United States would withdraw from the treaty will mark the first time in the nuclear era that the United States has renounced a major arms control accord.

If both countries start renouncing existing arms control agreements, Americans will be less secure from nuclear missile dangers than they are now.

The 1995 US Naval Handboook (extract under the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention) says that the United States "formally renounced first use of riot control agents in armed conflict except in defensive military modes to save lives", and goes on to detail the situations where its use may be allowed– all of which require prior command-level approval.

China views Taiwan as a breakaway province and has not renounced the use of force to take control over the island if peaceful means eventually fail.