Sentence examples for renounces from inspiring English sources

The group says that the nation should rearm, stoutly defend disputed territories against China and scrap the constitution of 1946 which renounces war as a means for settling disputes.

Israel has refused to hold peace talks with the autocratic but less ideological Syrian president, Bashar Assad, unless he first renounces ties to Israel's arch-enemies, Iran and Hizbullah.

Its Article 9 renounces warfare and the threat or use of force, and is the reason why Japan cannot act as other countries do.

ASEAN countries also signed a non-aggression treaty with China, which renounces the threat or use of force to settle disputes and calls for greater economic and political co-operation.See article: Noodle soupNorth Korea said that it does not want Japan to be involved in any future talks on its nuclear programme.

Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, has inherited the eagerness of his grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, who was prime minister soon after the second world war, to revise the country's American-written constitution that renounces the use of war.

That also seems an odd criticism, since under a currency board the central bank renounces an independent monetary policy; the money supply is restricted to the level of reserves (hitherto of dollars; in future, if Mr Cavallo has his way, a 50-50 mix of dollars and euros).

America's secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, recently reiterated that the United States will not deal with a PA dominated by Hamas, which is listed as a terrorist organisation, unless it renounces both its weapons and its commitment to Israel's destruction.

If Mr Abe is not careful, he could find his own enthusiasm for constitutional change upsets his economic reforms.On his return to power in 2012, his plan was to use the thumping majority his Liberal Democratic Party LDPP) wields with its coalition partner, New Komeito, to move towards rewriting Article 9 of the constitution, in which Japan renounces the use of war.

At its heart, in Article Nine, Japan forever renounces the use of war to settle international disputes.

This is what makes the constitution a pacifist one, for in it Japan renounces war as a sovereign right and even vows not to keep a standing army, air force or navy.

They are heavily concentrated in Okinawa, where they serve as a focus for much anti-American protest.Mr Armitage particularly wants Japan to revise its constitution, which renounces war, in order to play a more active role in collective self-defence.