His book Folk Medicine, which evidenced his pathetic renunciation of science for superstition, sold over a million witless copies.
In 1928, representatives of fifteen countries, including the United States, France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, gathered in the French capital and signed the General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy.
For renunciation of individual aspirations to replace the slain father and a shared sense of guilt in the primal crime led to a contractual agreement to end internecine struggle and band together instead.
The legal basis for convictions of German defendants at Nuremberg for the crime of aggression was the 1928 Treaty for the Renunciation of War or Kellogg-Briand Pact, named for U.S. Secretary of State Frank Kellogg, in which countries renounced "war as an instrument of national policy".
Opposition was generally couched as criticism of Du Bois for his Communist sympathies and his renunciation of American citizenship for that of Ghana late in life.
The first provides for the renunciation of all political powers and governmental authority by the Throne for ever, but stipulates that it shall not be regarded as an enforced abdication as marked the endings of the previous dynasties.
The Catholic Encyclopedia defines celibacy as "the renunciation of marriage... for the more perfect observance of chastity".
In another manifesto, espousing a Young Classicism, Busoni called for the renunciation of the sensuous and subjective to "reconquer serenity".
Different versions of the Talmud contain cryptic references to Elisha's heretical acts and the reason for his renunciation of Judaism.
I'm a mom who writes novels between drop-off and pickup, so I'd like to know more about his renunciation of family life for the writing life.
His problems are compounded by the distrust that many in Fatah feel towards him and his policies, especially the young leaders who came to prominence during the intifada.Mr Abbas has received international accolades for his renunciation of violence.
