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.
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.
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.
If both countries start renouncing existing arms control agreements, Americans will be less secure from nuclear missile dangers than they are now.
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.
Charging that Grattan had not gone far enough in his reforms, Flood obtained passage of a measure requiring the British Parliament to renounce all claims to control of Irish legislation.
It's a monstrous commonplace that guns are as American as apple pie, but that's why a movie about guns, the agony of gun violence, and the crying need to control and renounce guns has to be a big, philosophical, wide-ranging film a movie that feels as raucous and mighty and capacious and vigorous and ornery and moral and immoral and wild as the country itself.
