Sentence examples for were renouncing from inspiring English sources

Implicitly, at least, they were renouncing the idea that their counterparts were heretics.

In exchange, the Germans were renouncing all claims to ancestral lands east of the Oder and Neisse Rivers lost to Poland and the Soviet Union, restricting their military and pledging that hereafter only peace would emanate from German soil.

She said friends of hers had told her they were renouncing their allegiance to the Cubs and shifting to Chicago's South Side team, the White Sox – Mr. Obama's team.

Among them, he said, were renouncing the singling out of Jews for evangelism, confronting anti-Jewish sentiment "openly and publicly whenever it rears its head in our communities," and teaching respect for Judaism in Baptist churches, including "how we talk about the Pharisees and the death of Jesus".

OUTRAGED THAT THOUSANDS of rich Americans like Campbell Soup heir John Dorrance III and former Star-Kist Foods Chairman Joseph Bogdanovich were renouncing citizenships for tax havens overseas, in 1996 Congress tried to stop the flow.

Yet as soon as Saudi Arabia was elected, the rulers in Riyadh declared that they were renouncing the seat.

The love affair was short-lived, and soon vuvuzelas were renounced as a scourge.

They were renounced by the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod in 1983 and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1994.

After Hsu fled the California justice system again in 2007, his contributions were renounced by an increasing number of elected officials.

At long last I was renouncing chance".

You're renouncing your duty to be critical".