This is used as a pretext for "energy independence"–that is, renouncing trade in energy, including the two-thirds of our oil we buy on the international market.
Two weeks ago, Mr. Fischer announced that he was renouncing his American citizenship.
Also on Monday, in southern Afghanistan, a Taliban commander from the Panjwai District of Kandahar Province announced that he was renouncing violence and joining the government, bringing 30 fighters with him.
Her book persuaded one high-profile journalist, Steve Coll, to announce in The New Yorker that he was renouncing his citizenship in "Facebookistan," which he had come to see as a highhanded corporate autocracy.
In Libya's case, Muammar Gaddafi announced in December 2003 that it was renouncing all WMD -- Libya possessed chemical weapons, ballistic missiles and a nuclear weapons program -- and invited international inspectors to certify its compliance.
In an effort to normalize its relations with the West, the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, announced last December that his country was renouncing chemical, biological and nuclear arms.
There are cases where someone signed Israeli citizenship papers without reading them, so he didn't know that they said he was renouncing any other citizenship -- and the courts held he hadn't voluntarily renounced his U.S. citizenship.
"Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3," he once promised.Yet Mr Johnson (pictured) is so fed up with the Internal Revenue Service IRSS) that he is renouncing his US citizenship.
Yet as soon as Saudi Arabia was elected, the rulers in Riyadh declared that they were renouncing the seat.
Jewishness is not something that can be lost and it is not something that can be renounced.
