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Example sentences for: renounce

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Four decades later, Penderecki has joined the ranks of those who renounce the achievements of his generation; Berio remains unabashedly highbrow and staunchly atonal, a true avant-gardist.
In order to renounce self-defense you need a reason, something to the effect that violence only breeds more violence.
If he doesn't renounce the flag he risks losing the support of African-Americans.
(As I recall my Shakespeare, Juliet refused to renounce her faith in Jesus, and so Mercutio shot her.
4. "Protesting tire-maker Michelin's plan to cut 7,500 jobs from its workforce, French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin told reporters, 'We didn't renounce the dictatorship of the proletariat just to replace it with the dictatorship of the shareholders.