Sentence examples for renounced in from inspiring English sources

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

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.

Instruction in independent thinking had been renounced in favour of "the ubiquitous encouragement of everyone's so-called 'individual personality'" – a trend Nietzsche viewed as "a mark of barbarity".

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

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.

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.

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".

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.

After "Chimes of Freedom", Dylan's protest songs no longer depicted social reality in the black and white terms he renounces in "My Back Pages" but rather use satirical surrealism to make their points.

The fundamentalist community here evolved after members of the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City officially renounced polygamy in 1890.

The group has not carried out an attack in years, and says it renounced violence in 2001.