Sentence examples for voluntary renunciation from inspiring English sources

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Voluntary renunciation of its use would also help.

There can be no voluntary renunciation of sovereign immunity, just as no person can sell himself into slavery.

Another subject of "Chi-Raq" is stopping the killing of black people by black people (a "self-inflicted genocide," Father Mike says), not through repressive policing but through the voluntary renunciation of violence and surrendering of guns.

The Model Penal Code and several American state codes, however, provide for an affirmative defense if it can be shown that the actor "abandoned his effort to commit the crime or otherwise prevented its commission, under circumstances manifesting a complete and voluntary renunciation of his criminal purpose".

The court's majority now held that "Congress has no power under the Constitution to divest a person of his United States citizenship absent his voluntary renunciation thereof".

Afroyim's counsel argued that since "neither the Fourteenth Amendment nor any other provision of the Constitution expressly grants Congress the power to take away [U.S.] citizenship once it has been acquired... the only way [Afroyim] could lose his citizenship was by his own voluntary renunciation of it".

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And, of course, not every renunciation of corporate culture is voluntary.

Renunciation benefitted Wool.

Renunciation is not unheard-of.

There was what one historian called a "renunciation of renunciation".

But renunciation of what?

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