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Example sentences for: renounced

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First, he renounced his job offer from Pepperdine University, saying it would be wrong to make Pepperdine wait for him to finish his investigation.
Hillary Clinton said the president should drop his Aug. 11 decision to offer clemency to 16 Puerto Rican terrorists because they have not renounced further violence.
The latter was built by Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa to split and counteract the powerful influence of Nishi-Honganji, which had attracted thousands of followers with its free-wheeling Buddhism: it allowed priests to marry and have children, permitted the eating of meat, and renounced traditional ascetic practices.
All 11 renounced terrorism, as part of the clemency agreement.
Though Kabila, a member of the pre-1965 government, has renounced his Marxist past, many in the West worry about his socialist tendencies.