Sentence examples for renounced the practice from inspiring English sources

The church split off from the mainstream Mormon faith — the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — decades ago after the Mormons renounced the practice of polygamy.

There are schismatic Mormon churches (called "Fundamentalist Mormons") who still endorse the practice today, although the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (i.e., mainstream Mormons) have renounced the practice and excommunicate any members who practice it.

Since 2008, when the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on FGM/C was established, nearly 10,000 communities in 15 countries, representing about 8 million people, have renounced the practice.

The European Union, which has fewer murders than America, refuses to admit countries as new members unless they renounce the practice.

Meanwhile, the Community of Sant'Egidio has made the Colosseum where Christians were thrown to the lions a symbol of resistance to capital punishment, arranging for it to be lit up especially brightly at night each time a government renounces the practice.

Alessandra Stanley (NYT) ASIA CHINA: FALUN GONG -- A Chinese Army officer, Lt. Col. Zhao Xinli, has been committed to a psychiatric hospital for refusing to renounce the practice of Falun Gong, the exercise and meditation group banned last year, according to a Hong Kong rights group.

At the 1780 Methodist Conference in Baltimore, the churchmen opposed distilled liquors and determined to "disown those who would not renounce the practice" of producing it.

In particular, it issued new, detailed instructions requiring that all who continued to actively practice Falun Gong were to be sent to prison or labour camps, and individuals who refused to renounce the practice were to be socially isolated and monitored by their families and workplaces.

The report further calls upon governments to renounce the practice of forced recruitment, which has put increasing numbers of children under arms against their will.

Once imprisoned gang members realised he had renounced the life and was not only a practicing Muslim but also versed in the Arabic root of the religion, he was left alone.

Once imprisoned gang members realized he had renounced the life and was not only a practicing Muslim but also versed in the Arabic root of the religion, he was left alone.