Examples of renounce

• That zone extended to only some 60 hectares for which, in exchange, the community would renounce any rights to cultivate within the reserved forest.

• They often renounced the losses of their beloved sons, husbands, brothers and fathers.

• If powerful actors do not renounce their power over others as a means for shaping collective decisions, deliberation can hardly be sustained.

• They reiterated their commitment to democratic competition, renounced violence, and withheld criticism of the government's structural-adjustment plan.

• In the state of renouncing search, this positive feedback is blocked.

• If the state were small, impregnable to attack, renounced war and excluded foreigners, it could survive for a longer time.

• He renounces her, takes their son from her, pretends to place him in harm's way and banishes her from the palace.

• Opponents argued, incorrectly but successfully, that any contract requiring workers to renounce their rights would be found invalid in the courts.