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111 examples of Renounce in a sentence

How to renounce the hysterical need to be valued?
This doubt compels me to renounce the role of savior that some have placed on me, because our time is too short and our odds are too long to wait for second comings, when the truth is that there will be no miracles here.
You know, we had to be taught to renounce the powerful conservation ethic we developed during the Great Depression and World War II.
Written by anonymous Germans, the leaflets urged readers to renounce Hitler, to fight furiously for the future— and to never give up hope.
He seems to half hate his subjects for having to renounce his father and his love, half love the people as a good emperor should.
After watching "Killer Bees!" on television one night, I nearly decided to renounce modern technology altogether.
Shah Rukh Khan, India's biggest star, plays the Mauryan Emperor Asoka, who wages bloody wars across the country only to renounce violence when he witnesses the aftermath of the destruction he causes.
Musharraf hoped to extend his presidency this fall without caving in to opposition demands that he renounce his military position and restore a civilian rival to the post of prime minister.
In his book How Britain Will Leave Europe, former Minister for Europe Denis MacShane describes how former Prime Minister Tony Blair considered holding a referendum on adopting the euro, only to renounce the plan for fear that the “shadowy figure of Rupert Murdoch” would use his media empire to campaign against it.
I cannot see how a negotiation aimed at getting Iran to renounce unilaterally a right recognized for all NPT signatories simply in order to build confidence in the West could be successful.
The West’s wariness is well founded, and we have no reason to renounce our mistrust.
Few of us will voluntarily renounce our modern mobility.
But when the Hungarian and Polish governments explicitly renounce fundamental EU principles, non-interference suddenly became sacrosanct.
During his presidential campaign in 2000, George W. Bush promised to renounce nation-building adventures abroad, to maintain fiscal discipline, and to treat greenhouses gases as pollutants under the Clean Air Act.
In particular, they should renounce the much-touted December 8 “Act IV” of the movement, brewing on Facebook since Saturday evening, which everyone expects to be more violent, destructive, and tragic than the preceding installments.
In the case of Trump at the G7, an agreement to scrap tariffs would have been good for the whole world, even if Trump later tried to renounce it.
French Socialists will not renounce their traditional commitments; nor should they.
Obviously, it requires that governments renounce direct restrictions on trade and capital flows.
They must either explicitly renounce economic sovereignty or actively put it to use for the benefit of their citizens.
Currently, Israel emphasizes massive deterrence, but it would be well advised to utilize the political and diplomatic possibilities presented by this war and take the initiative from a position of strength to offer a comprehensive peace to all those who are ready to recognize its existence and permanently renounce violence, not just in word, but also in deed.
European efforts to induce Teheran to renounce its nuclear designs by addressing Iran’s legitimate security concerns and offering important opportunities for economic and social betterment cannot be successful without active US support.
The US must renounce the imperialism of the dollar, and Germany must abandon its dream of a “deutscheuro,” managed as if the other 16 euro members were historical and cultural extensions of the German nation.
For their part, radicalized groups must renounce violence and accept international principles and laws.
And the United States has displayed no willingness to renounce its anachronistic privilege of nominating the World Bank’s president.
This did not produce a joint benefit; it was a bad decision, and one that Obama should renounce.
This claim is more contentious, because leaders in Beijing regard state ownership of enterprises as a matter of sovereign choice, and do not want to renounce big industrial policy endeavors.
The answer is “no” if our objective remains forcing Iran to renounce all activity on centrifugation.
The regulators’ tersely worded letter to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) asked it to renounce a core component of the industry’s multi-decade effort to exempt itself from financial debtors’ bankruptcy – an exemption that worsens not only the debtor’s stability, but also that of the global economy.
While rejecting censorship, the US government should not renounce its authority to speak sensibly and condemn an appalling and apparently intentional provocation that produced such tragic consequences.
Simmering tensions have been fueled largely by the lengthy “re-education” campaigns imposed on the Tibetans, who are forced to renounce publicly their spiritual leader and profess patriotism and loyalty to China.
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