Sentence examples for try to renege from inspiring English sources

It does not enjoy the same sovereignty the constitution grants the states; should it try to renege on its debts, Congress might intervene.

Little did I know my husband would try to renege; he contrived to arrive in town on the day the museum was closed.

The city wants to lock in the state payment of $170 million a year because it knows that future lawmakers could try to renege on the deal made this year, and it wants to reassure investors that the bonds they buy will be paid back.

Some, like Cosco, a shipping giant, have brazenly tried to renege on contracts.

The judge then tried to renege on the plea bargain struck with Polanski.

It was then that City and Wall Street banks tried to renege on the deal.

But several of the companies that are fighting refunds have said in their public filings that the utilities, particularly in the Northwest, are trying to renege on legitimate long-term contracts.

Washington is divided between parties with utterly different visions of what our society should look like; Republicans, in particular, would wait maybe a minute before trying to renege on any bargain that raises rather than cuts taxes on the wealthy, and that leaves the basic structure of Medicare and Social Security intact.

I loved everything about Peter Gelb's $16 million production: the shape-shifting, high-tech stage, the mermaid sopranos dangling from wires, the magnetic Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, who plays Wotan, the weak ruler of the gods who tries to renege after bartering his gorgeous sister-in-law for construction of a gorgeous castle.

Presiding over a meeting on the electricity industry, Mr. Putin said in a televised speech that the executives, known as oligarchs, had undertaken to invest in power plants some years back but were now trying to renege on the obligations, citing diminished demand for electricity.

Then, after WorldCom blew up, it agreed to a modest reform bill -- only to undermine the bill's credibility both by trying to renege on promises to provide the Securities and Exchange Commission with adequate funds, and by pressuring Harvey Pitt not to choose a real reformer to head a crucial new panel.