Sentence examples for this renunciation from inspiring English sources

It is after this renunciation that one can experience "the acute fever" of a spiritual life.

Ratified in the Treaty of Oliva in 1660, this renunciation was balanced by confirmation of the Elector's full sovereignty over the Duchy of Prussia.

This renunciation, he explained, was a learning exercise, teaching him to will away the distractions of pain and pleasure and other attachments to the world.

This renunciation, of course, is the last thing the tobacco companies want from kids, but they must appear to want it.

The life of the hermit is often undertaken by people who deplore the lack of spirituality in whatever culture they belong to, but this renunciation is far from guaranteeing exemption from the temptations of the flesh.

More importantly, they have failed to acknowledge the role the oil industry played in contributing to this renunciation and to the development of new paradigms in seismology.

This would ensure this automatic renunciation could apply only to people who have engaged in terrorism-related conduct outside Australia, or had done so in Australia but had left the country before being charged and brought to trial.

Shakespeare, too, took up this subject — the renunciation of the creative self — in "The Tempest".

He maintained that the liberty of the church was to be the fulcrum of the renewal of the world, even though this involved the renunciation of its temporal power and the surrender of Rome to the Italian nation.

No annunciation this – all renunciation.

Without this qualified renunciation, our state of negative solidarity can only become "an unbearable burden", provoking "political apathy, isolationist nationalism, or desperate rebellion against all powers that be".