Saif often acted as an envoy for his father's regime, and in 2002 and 2003 helped to broker the agreement that saw Libya renounce its weapons of mass destruction programme and begin its journey back into the international fold.
So, it was somewhat encouraging to see Husain renounce his previous call to ban HT in an interview published in Monday's Independent and now argue that the best way to deal with them is to challenge their arguments openly instead of trying to drive them underground.
Later in 1927 he revised this earlier view and renounced his criticism of Catholicism, seeing it as an essential part of the Polish identity.
Indeed, when that experience has been so consistently belittled, it is hard to see how renouncing it can be so major a turning point, or why is it now right for Goethe to return to home and "marriage" because (we are told) he "needed the sex", when sexual fulfilment was earlier the "prison of sated appetite" and part of an illusory objectivity.
This season, with the plot twisting to revisit the historical Windsor's behavior toward the Third Reich, the audience sees that he, after renouncing the crown, freely fell into supporting Hitler.
It would be great to now see him to renounce his Galilee coal projects".
This position may prevail in the administration, although more moderate officials would prefer to see Washington simply renounce its own signature of the treaty.
Belief in God, and in salvation, always tempted her, as flesh tempts a saint, but the real perdition, as she saw it, was renouncing her freedom not to conform.
The various avenues available to the 2008 pursuit gold medallist have closed off one by one over the past few years, and as a result it is no surprise to see her now renounce all hope of an Olympic medal in 2012.
Iran has made hostility to America a premise of its 1979 revolution: it sees rapprochement as tantamount to renouncing fundamental principles.
