Sentence examples for renunciations of from inspiring English sources

Thenceforth, public submissions to Henry VIII and renunciations of the pope were made by various prominent chiefs.

His renunciations of material comfort and bourgeois ambition vexed Coretta, especially since his constant journeys most often left her behind with four children in a cramped space.

BANGKOK — Vietnam has increased repression of indigenous minority Christians in the country's Central Highlands, closing small informal churches, compelling public renunciations of faith and arresting worshipers, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Thursday.

After Watts, the bulk of the material in "Reporting Civil Rights" is a dispiriting succession of riots, murders (including King's), unsuccessful campaigns, renunciations of nonviolence, factionalism, and black-white fights.

BANGKOK -- Vietnam has intensified repression of indigenous minority Christians in the country's Central Highlands, forcing the closure of small informal churches, compelling public renunciations of faith and arresting worshipers, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Thursday.

It ends with the bleak renunciations of "New Vows", with its bitter reversal of ritual promises: "From this day forth to unhold,/ to see the nothing in ringed gold, /Uncare for you when you are old".

A renunciation of Massachusetts, really.

But renunciation of what?

The renunciation of violence should be bilateral.

A renunciation of droit du seigneur.

There was what one historian called a "renunciation of renunciation".