In June, the Cuban diplomat Manuel Sanguily wrote to a friend, "Now that they have seen Guantánamo, they will never renounce their control over it".
"We are wild lovers of freedom, and will never renounce the revolution or the complete destruction of the state and its violence".
In the wake of Breivik's twin terror attacks, in which scores of teenaged members of Labour Party were massacred while attending a summer camp of Norway's Utoya island, Mr Stoltenberg appeared on television and declared: "We will never renounce our values – our answer is more democracy, more openness and more humanity".
It's the basis of your faith and sometimes you doubt it, but you never renounce it because too much of your life stands on that ground.
China has never renounced what it says is its right to take Taiwan by force if peaceful blandishments fail.
And China, which has never renounced what it says is its right to "reunify" Taiwan by force, feels just as bound to protest when arms deals go through.
He will lead us to victory and never renounce the struggle, and we will be right there at his side.
He never formally renounced it.
In an essay entitled "Everywhere and Nowhere, " Merleau-Ponty explicitly reflects on the future of philosophy, he writes that philosophy "will never regain the conviction of holding the keys to nature or history in its concepts, and it will not renounce its radicalism, that search for presuppositions and foundations which has produced the great philosophies" (Signs, 157).
While he cannot reverse the fact that the United States has signed the treaty, Mr. Bush could renounce it and declare the United States' intention never to ratify it.
