Sentence examples for renounced was from inspiring English sources

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.

Her brother-in-law recognises this in a stirring moment: "This was the body of a beautiful young woman, conventionally an object of desire, and yet it was a body from which all desire had been eliminated … what she had renounced was the very life that her body represented".

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

To renounce is weak, reactive, egoistic.

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

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

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.

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.

Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, said to be one of founders of JI but who later reportedly renounced violence, was sentenced to 15 years in jail in June 2011.

(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).

"Wanted to tell stories!" The conflict Guston experienced before renouncing abstraction was fraught.