Sentence examples for that he renounced from inspiring English sources
In 1206, the year that he renounced his inheritance, two young Assisians joined him.
The sufferings that the war inflicted on the defeated people moved him to such remorse that he renounced armed conquests.
Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder, issued a statement Thursday denying that he renounced his United States citizenship so that he could avoid paying taxes.
It was just two years ago, in Baze v. Rees, that he renounced his support for the death penalty in an opinion grounded not in abstract principle but in years of sorrowful observation of how the death penalty was actually being administered under statutes and Supreme Court opinions that cut off avenues of appeal.
But while he was a whiz at finance, and a generous philanthropist, his credentials as a scold on the subject of giving back to America are somewhat questionable, given that he renounced his U.S. citizenship back in the sixties, thus reportedly avoiding paying tens of millions in U.S. income taxes.
The senior Cruz further asserted that he renounced his Canadian citizenship when he finally became a U.S. citizen in 2005.
What Kim Jong-un is saying is not that he renounces nukes, or has become a peacenik, but that his subjects are hungry.
He was allowed back into the West Bank by Israel in 1999 after 32 years in exile, on the condition that he renounce armed resistance.
In 1985, South African President P.W. Botha offered to release Mr. Mandela on the condition that he renounce violence as a political weapon; Mr. Mandela declined the offer because he believed "that only free men can negotiate".
In 1714 he refused to accept suggestions by Robert Harley and Viscount Bolingbroke that he renounce Roman Catholicism and become an Anglican in order to be designated Queen Anne's heir to the throne of England.
They demand that he renounce in advance the findings of the U.N. tribunal, suggesting that they would return to the coalition if Hariri spurns the search for his father's killers.
