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  • Looks like Galileo renouncing the geocentric model once and for all.†   (source)
  • In 1852, in Moscow, disillusioned and convinced of his failure as a writer, he renounced all literary activity and burned the manuscript to the second volume of Dead Souls.†   (source)
  • And she swore in front of Mama Elena's tomb that come what may, she would never renounce love.†   (source)
  • Leaders may enhance their informal status by renouncing formal symbols.†   (source)
  • He changed his name, renounced his religion, and vowed never to have more than the allotted two children.†   (source)
  • Jason understood why Thalia had renounced that part of her life too, but he was still resentful.†   (source)
  • LIBERTY IN ACCEPTANCE;
    PEACE IN ENCLOSURE;
    HAPPINESS IN RENUNCIATION
    —Words carved above the gates at the entrance to the Crypts
    When I was in fourth grade, I went on a field trip to the Crypts.†   (source)
  • I renounced Zen Gnosticism about the same time Helenda divorced me.†   (source)
  • Her conversion might have been a step forward in her eyes, but in the eyes of her mother and siblings it was as if she'd renounced her family and all they stood for.†   (source)
  • He had never sought the dissolution of the Soviet Union and never renounced his fundamental commitment to Marxism-Leninism.†   (source)
  • Women who see their desires doused and their dreams renounced, and yet—and this is the worst of it, Monsieur Boustouler—if you meet them, they smile and pretend they have no misgivings at all.†   (source)
  • As a young woman she had renounced the material world, and now, as an old one, she seemed to embrace it.†   (source)
  • Abulurd renounced the Harkonnen name and all rights to the title when given the subdistrict governorship of Rabban-Lankiveil.†   (source)
  • I was the one who wouldn't renounce my claim there.†   (source)
  • But St. Augustine did not renounce man's responsibility for his own life.†   (source)
  • But then it seemed to me it would be a step, placing him, renouncing him, in spite of the fact that I had nobody-telling him there was no simultaneous interpreter, nobody, but that he was the wrong one, that I had stopped hanging on.†   (source)
  • Hester Deale, do you renounce Satan?†   (source)
  • But what kept me coming back, once I started, were the tales of the unfortunate women like Saint Agatha, whose breasts were cut off when she refused to renounce her faith.†   (source)
  • Eragon had renounced all affiliation with his birth brother, Murtagh, and the only relatives he and Roran had left were each other, and now Katrina.†   (source)
  • We discussed the armed struggle and I explained to him it was not up to us to renounce violence, but the government.†   (source)
  • Years later she would renounce her allegiance to legalized abortion and become a pro-life activist.†   (source)
  • Not that I'm ready to renounce my existence.†   (source)
  • In the end, despite these deep cultural ties, the Islamic world has entirely renounced slavery.†   (source)
  • Former Taliban fighters renounced violence and the oppression of women after meeting Mortenson and went to work with him peacefully building schools for girls.†   (source)
  • "I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen," Oscar said.†   (source)
  • I renounced big magic.†   (source)
  • Will you renounce?†   (source)
  • —where I took a vow renouncing love.†   (source)
  • ] I have seen the Nisei in anger, in exuberant spirits, enthusiasm and despair, in the quiet stillness of resignation or renunciation—I've worked beside them in canneries, on farms, in Red Cross groups—I've seen them in poverty and in luxury, in cabins and stuccoed residences, struggling for higher education on meager earnings, or cushioned through college by a parent's wealth—I've known them as mill hands, lumberjacks, clerks, dressmakers, stenos, domestic servants—I've watched them…†   (source)
  • In the face of this stain to the family reputation, Marcos was forced to give up organ-grinding and resort to less conspicuous ways of winning over his Cousin Antonieta, but he did not renounce his goal.†   (source)
  • I contemplated religious sutras, practiced cleansing rituals, and hoped to renounce the polluting aspects of bed business.†   (source)
  • These were her vertigo: she heard a sweet (almost joyous) summons to renounce her fate and soul.†   (source)
  • Stone cried with every squeeze, calling on a God he had renounced once and didn't believe in.†   (source)
  • Say, Jake, is it safe to assume Hubbard renounced a previous will?†   (source)
  • By renouncing their allegiance to the King, the delegates at Philadelphia had committed treason and embarked on a course from which there could be no turning back.†   (source)
  • She added the last as though it explained her renunciation of Paris.†   (source)
  • I am renouncing this lordship and this wife.†   (source)
  • And in the following weeks Anne kept it up, so that one could almost believe that she had succeeded in renouncing her difference and becoming a norm.†   (source)
  • I renounced that Order long ago.†   (source)
  • Do you renounce her to my keeping?†   (source)
  • Why would one of them willingly renounce America and take up residence in a nation that poses the greatest threat to the United States?†   (source)
  • When Spain ceded Florida by treaty in 1819, the United States renounced all claims to the Mexican province of Texas, but soon Americans began settling on the San Antonio River.†   (source)
  • Then I gave him a last choice and a fair one: to renounce both Mordor and his private schemes, and make amends by helping us in our need.†   (source)
  • Once you entered the barracks, you surrendered to the plebe system, renounced the world outside the Gates of Legrand, and submitted to the laws of the Corps.†   (source)
  • Her answer was also, of course, a means of renunciation, itself a denial of everything else I wasn't offering.†   (source)
  • She offered to sign an agreement renouncing any claims to the Villiers estate and, of course, I would have none of that, for it was proof of her commitment to me.†   (source)
  • Since the smaller States depend on union for their safety and welfare, they should readily renounce a pretension that, if not relinquished, would be fatal to that union.†   (source)
  • Henceforth, Gabriel Allon renounced any and all claim to the van Gogh; it was now the property of the Israel Museum.†   (source)
  • Renounce attachment to the fruits.†   (source)
  • Right now I renounce my confidence in myself and put my trust in Thee.†   (source)
  • But at the same time there were circumstances and happenings in her past which had to be spoken; I think that quite unbeknownst to herself she was questing for someone to serve in place of those religious confessors she had coldly renounced.†   (source)
  • Estragon tries to speak, renounces, limps to his place, sits down and begins to take off his boots.†   (source)
  • I'm not about to renounce my claim because I'm enjoying your hospitality.†   (source)
  • But with me the fatalism was bogus; I cared very much about the world and wished to renounce nothing.†   (source)
  • He set down every evil thought he had and renounced it.†   (source)
  • And so, renouncing cynicism, in the back of his mind he had taken the road Will Jr would take: emulation.†   (source)
  • Worse, he had renounced sex when he consecrated himself to the Universes and this had a shocking effect on Star; sweet submissiveness wasn't her style.†   (source)
  • You have renounced your home and your parents, renounced your birth and possessions, renounced your free will, renounced all friendship.†   (source)
  • Why hadn't he had the sense to renounce her in time, that winter before their marriage, when she herself had insisted on it?†   (source)
  • DUDARD: I've renounced marriage.†   (source)
  • I tried and failed to imagine her, this woman who could after so many years renounce altogether her husband, break the bond that must surely have existed despite his long absences.†   (source)
  • He stops coughing and gives her a quick apprehensive glance, but if his suspicions are aroused her tenderness makes him renounce them and he believes what he wants to believe for the moment.†   (source)
  • "Parton has denounced you as No Federalist," his father wrote, "and I wish he would denounce me in the same manner, for I have long since renounced, abdicated, and disclaimed the name and character and attributes of that sect, as it now appears."†   (source)
  • She renounced her husband
  • To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.   (source)
  • Because they refused to accept female ministers, she renounced her membership in the church and joined another denomination.
  • To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.   (source)
  • There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.   (source)
  • She renounced her religion and joined the Communist party.
  • Put your hand on this Bible, and say, 'I renounce all private speech and intercourse with Philip Wakem from this time forth.'   (source)
    renounce = to formally give up
  • She was offended by the fact that he had actually, eventually, renounced his vows, but not for her.†   (source)
  • Hester Deale, do you renounce Giles Dent and the woman Ann Hawkins as witches and heretics?†   (source)
  • Dida, I said, if God sent Sukkhi to kill my husband, then I renounce God.†   (source)
  • The Doctor did not renounce his hope of saying goodbye to her, but Lorenzo Daza did not suggest it.†   (source)
  • On that day, and only on that day, he knew he would have to renounce his hope of Fermina Daza.†   (source)
  • I do renounce them, and pray to God to save me.†   (source)
  • Go if you must, but unless you wish to renounce me, I would be reconciled with you.†   (source)
  • " "If they renounce war it amounts to the same thing.†   (source)
  • Even if he were to renounce his kingship, though, the man remains an oathbreaker.†   (source)
  • Lastly, King Joffrey and the Queen Regent must renounce all claims to dominion over the north.†   (source)
  • General Mebratu, proud and far from penitent, wouldn't renounce what he'd done.†   (source)
  • A "graceless child," he was, but she did not renounce him.†   (source)
  • And that will specifically renounced one I signed in March of 1985.†   (source)
  • Then he voluntarily renounced his country, then his life, to secure his final success.†   (source)
  • The only way I can see to resolve the matter without bloodshed is for you to renounce your claim.†   (source)
  • Because love means renouncing strength, said Franz softly.†   (source)
  • "It is up to you," I said, "not us, to renounce violence."†   (source)
  • It is not a sacrifice to renounce the unwanted.†   (source)
  • I stood in the grass awaiting the moment I would renounce my roommate.†   (source)
  • Why were they ready to renounce their highest moments as a sin?†   (source)
  • Yet no one, not the lowest of humans, is ever able fully to renounce his brain.†   (source)
  • Your morality tells you to renounce the material world and to divorce your values from matter.†   (source)
  • Renounce your consciousness and you become a brute.†   (source)
  • Renounce your body and you become a fake.†   (source)
  • They would not renounce their bodies, which was all we asked of them.†   (source)
  • I had always thought that any sort of battle was proper, anything, except renunciation.†   (source)
  • Do you say it is the spirit that such men have renounced?†   (source)
  • But we, brought down to renouncing and giving up!†   (source)
  • Neither your kind of renunciation nor my own ….†   (source)
  • Nor did I try to ridicule the stories or make the children renounce their fears as superstitions.†   (source)
  • Which shall I renounce, my body--of which ethical intellect is a function--or my soul?†   (source)
  • I've given her up, renounced her, given her away.†   (source)
  • One must renounce one's own will, which I have already done.†   (source)
  • She was never made to renounce the world.†   (source)
  • We cannot "love one another," to quote a philosopher, by renouncing self and becoming the other.†   (source)
  • One must renounce home and family, origin and property.†   (source)
  • All the same, you shouldn't have renounced it," said Anna Ivanovna.†   (source)
  • Chief of Police Fred Clumly had renounced the world.†   (source)
  • Your way of renunciation is a strict one, which I feel to be good.†   (source)
  • "I renounced my final name but a short while back," answered the other.†   (source)
  • Even now, to honor the sacrifice made by Jesus, his followers proffered their own feeble gestures of personal sacrifice …. fasting, Lenten renunciation, tithing.†   (source)
  • I'll renounce.†   (source)
  • I shrank from this frightening image of the doctor and his corrupt medicine, and only then did I understand, as I had not before, that although I had renounced my father's world, I had never quite found the courage to live in this one.†   (source)
  • Renounce the gods.†   (source)
  • When the boy headed off into the Alaska bush, he entertained no illusions that he was trekking into a land of milk and honey; peril, adversity, and Tolstoyan renunciation were precisely what he was seeking.†   (source)
  • They both renounced their religions—your mother was a Mormon—but in fact their feelings are still ambiguous.†   (source)
  • The church was called Saint Agnes in Agony, named for St. Agnes, a ravishing teenage virgin banished to a life of sexual slavery for refusing to renounce her faith.†   (source)
  • The old ones they send off to the Colonies right away, but the young fertile ones they try to convert, and when they succeed we all come here to watch them go through the ceremony, renounce their celibacy, sacrifice it to the common good.†   (source)
  • They went to Azkaban rather than renounce me…… When Azkaban is broken open, the Lestranges will be honored beyond their dreams.†   (source)
  • I give this information as a sign that I fully and totally renounce him, and am filled with a remorse so deep I can barely —†   (source)
  • I do renounce him.†   (source)
  • Still, she did not renounce her plan.†   (source)
  • It ended with a threat: if Fermina Daza did not renounce her efforts to move up in the world by means of the most desirable man in the city, she would be exposed to public disgrace.†   (source)
  • But suddenly, when Florentino Ariza had already surrendered his weapons during those meditative afternoons on the plantation, Uncle Leo XII agreed to renounce the centenarian privilege, on the one honorable condition that it not take place before his death.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza renounced his memories and left her alone with hers, and in the meantime he rolled cigarettes and passed them to her already lit, until the box was empty.†   (source)
  • But in those solitary Masses they began to be aware that once again they were mistresses of their fate, after having renounced not only their family name but their own identity in exchange for a security that was no more than another of a bride's many illusions.†   (source)
  • Years before, when he had still not renounced the hope of making her his lover, with the consent of her parents Florentino Ariza would visit her on Sundays, and sometimes until very late at night, and he had contributed so much to the household that he came to consider it his own.†   (source)
  • That night, following his renunciation, as he was undressing for bed, he recited for Fermina Daza the bitter litany of his early morning insomnia, his sudden stabbing pains, his desire to weep in the afternoon, the encoded symptoms of secret love, which he recounted as if they were the miseries of old age.†   (source)
  • The old man's obstinacy seemed natural to them, not because, as it was too easy to say, old age had made him less visionary than he had always been, but because renouncing the monopoly must have seemed to him like throwing away the victories of a historic battle that he and his brothers had waged unaided, back in heroic times, against powerful adversaries from all over the world.†   (source)
  • In opposition to his uncle's opinion, he thought that the setbacks in river navigation, always on the edge of disaster, could be remedied only by a voluntary renunciation of the riverboat monopoly that the National Congress had granted to the River Company of the Caribbean for ninety-nine years and a day.†   (source)
  • The first provoked her to such irrational anger at her husband's infidelity and her friend's disloyalty that she renounced the custom of visiting the family mausoleum one Sunday each month, for it infuriated her that he, inside his coffin, could not hear the insults she wanted to shout at him: she had a quarrel with a dead man.†   (source)
  • October 28, Year 1 This contract indicates that Mr. Connor Braden Lynch, formerly of Rowan Academy, hereby renounces said Order and memberships in exchange for land and titles within the Kingdom of Blys.†   (source)
  • She could order one of the magicians of the Varden to remove them, of course, but then she would forfeit her victory in the Trial of the Long Knives, and the wandering tribes would renounce her as their liegelord.†   (source)
  • Taking the floor in protest, Adams called Sullivan a decoy duck sent to seduce Congress into renunciation of independence.†   (source)
  • They asked first that he renounce the revision of property titles in order to get back the support of the Liberal landowners.†   (source)
  • Very tall, very courtly, and very, rich, the Lord of Brightwater Keep had been the first of Renly's bannermen to declare for Stannis, and the first to renounce his old gods and take up the Lord of Light.†   (source)
  • "It excited one's sympathy to see their poor meager faces," he wrote of several who had escaped from Long Island, "and to hear their complaints of being hunted for their lives like game into the woods and swamps, only because they would not renounce their allegiance to their King and affection for their country."†   (source)
  • Later that day the AIVD, the Dutch security and intelligence service, confirmed that Margreet Janssen had traveled to Syria eighteen months previously, had remained there for approximately six months, and had been allowed to return to the Netherlands after convincing the Dutch authorities that she had renounced her ties to ISIS and the global jihadist movement.†   (source)
  • …to the floor, moaning that he was the guilty one because of his ambition and bluster, that no one had told him to get involved in politics, that he had been much better off as an ordinary lawyer and family man, and that from then on he was renouncing his accursed candidacy, resigning from the Liberal Party and from all his public deeds and works, and that he hoped none of his descendants would ever get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits—till finally Dr.…†   (source)
  • He told her of Lancel's decision to renounce wife and lands and lordship to fight for the Holy Faith.†   (source)
  • At its height, Comrade Chin walks across the stage with a banner reading: "The Actor Renounces His Decadent Profession!"†   (source)
  • They asked, secondly, that he renounce the fight against clerical influence in order to obtain the support of the Catholic masses.†   (source)
  • During the First World War he had served in the U.S. Army in France and in Germany, and he was so frustrated by his treatment at Manzanar he was ready to renounce his citizenship and sail to the old country.†   (source)
  • And, declared Adams, "I renounce him."†   (source)
  • I renounce all previous wills signed by me, specifically one dated September 7, 1987, and prepared by Mr. Lewis McGwyre of the Rush law firm in Tupelo, Mississippi.†   (source)
  • They insisted that the ANC must renounce violence and give up the armed struggle before the government would agree to negotiations—and before I could meet President Botha.†   (source)
  • And if the federal government did not voluntarily renounce its proposed changes, force would be used as it was before.†   (source)
  • You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes.†   (source)
  • They asked, finally, that he renounce the aim of equal rights for natural and illegitimate children in order to preserve the integrity of the home.†   (source)
  • But so daring and desperate is the spirit of those leaders, whose object has always been dominion and power, that they have now openly renounced all allegiance to the Crown, and all political connection with this country …. and have presumed to set up their rebellious confederacies for independent states.†   (source)
  • If he signed, their fates would be united and Tomas would be more or less obliged to befriend him; if he failed to sign, their relations would remain null as before, though now not so much by his own will as by the will of his son, who would renounce his father for his cowardice.†   (source)
  • The day his sister had come to White Sword Tower to beg him to renounce his vows, she had laughed after he refused her and boasted of having lied to him a thousand times.†   (source)
  • On the question of violence I wrote that the refusal of the ANC to renounce violence was not the problem: "The truth is that the government is not yet ready…. for the sharing of political power with blacks."†   (source)
  • A year ago I signed a thicker version in the offices of the Rush law firm in Tupelo, but I have renounced that document.†   (source)
  • "These facts have given the last stab to agonizing affection, and manly spirit bids us renounce forever these unfeeling brethren," he had written.†   (source)
  • Aureliano Segundo decided that they would have to bring her to the house and take care of her, but his good intentions were frustrated by the firm intransigence of Rebeca, who had needed many years of suffering and misery in order to attain the privileges of solitude and who was not disposed to renounce them in exchange for an old age disturbed by the false attractions of charity.†   (source)
  • If the authors of the objection insist that the Supreme Court must be part of the legislature, they must renounce the meaning of the separation of powers maxim.†   (source)
  • A year ago I signed a thicker version in the offices of the Rush law firm in Tupelo, but I have renounced that document.†   (source)
  • She spoke ofhim at the table as an exceptional being who had renounced all forms of vanity and was on his way to becoming a saint.†   (source)
  • Let him renounce violence.†   (source)
  • His own heartbreak over Charles was no less than what Abigail suffered, as his later writings disclose, but he had not softened in his decision to renounce his son.†   (source)
  • And to say this would be enough to purchase the guardians of the people, elected by the people, is to renounce every rule by which events are forecast and substitute an indiscriminate, illogical jealousy.†   (source)
  • They questioned me extensively on the issue of violence, and while I was not yet willing to renounce violence, I affirmed in the strongest possible terms that violence could never be the ultimate solution to the situation in South Africa and that men and women by their very nature required some kind of negotiated understanding.†   (source)
  • Fat, talkative, with the airs of a matron in disgrace, she renounced the sterile illusions of her cards and found peace and consolation in other people 's loves.†   (source)
  • Though the "measures adopted to secure our country against foreign attacks," must not he renounced, the national defense must be "commensurate with our resources and the situation of our country."†   (source)
  • With passage of the Declaration of Independence thus completed, and having thereby renounced allegiance to the King and proclaimed the birth of a new United States of America, the Congress proceeded directly to other business.†   (source)
  • She had the pleasure of dying a natural death after having renounced a throne out of fear of insomnia, and her last wish was that they should dig up the wages she had saved for more than twenty years under her bed and send the money to Colonel Aureliano Buendia so that he could go on with the war.†   (source)
  • To avert this and prepare the groundwork for negotiations, I proposed to deal with the three demands made of the ANC by the government as a precondition to negotiations: renouncing violence; breaking with the SACP; and abandoning the call for majority rule.†   (source)
  • She sensed that he had fought so many wars not out of idealism, as everyone had thought, nor had he renounced a certain victory because of fatigue, as everyone had thought, but that he had won and lost for the same reason, pure and sinful pride.†   (source)
  • Your self is your mind; renounce it and you become a chunk of meat ready for any cannibal to swallow.†   (source)
  • If you achieve the career you wanted, after years of struggle, it is not a sacrifice; if you then renounce it for the sake of a rival, it is.†   (source)
  • Man's good-say both-is to give up his personal desires, to deny himself, renounce himself, surrender; man's good is to negate the life he lives.†   (source)
  • It was as if the life he had been about to renounce were given back to him by the two essentials he needed: by his food and by the presence of a rational being.†   (source)
  • How many corpses do you intend to pile up before you renounce it-your guns, your power, your controls and the whole of your miserable altruistic creed?†   (source)
  • Give to that which you do not enjoy, serve that which you do not admire, submit to that which you consider evilsurrender the world to the values of others, deny, reject, renounce your self.†   (source)
  • If you renounce all personal desires and dedicate your life to those you love, you do not achieve full virtue: you still retain a value of your own, which is your love.†   (source)
  • The relief did not come from the knowledge that he would not renounce her, nor from arty assurance that she would win-the relief came from the certainty that he would always remain what he was.†   (source)
  • If you start, however, as a passionless blank, as a vegetable seeking to be eaten, with no values to reject and no wishes to renounce, you will not win the crown of sacrifice.†   (source)
  • She felt that no problem existed, that nothing could stand beside the fact of seeing him and nothing would ever have the power to make her leave-and, simultaneously, that she would have no right to look at him if she were to renounce her railroad.†   (source)
  • …the same child, you declare that the looters who rule the People's States will surpass this country in material production, since they are the representatives of science, but that it's evil to be concerned with physical wealth and that one must renounce material prosperityyou declare that the looters' ideals are noble, but they do not mean them, while you do; that your purpose in fighting the looters is only to accomplish their aims, which they cannot accomplish, but you can; and that…†   (source)
  • She could renounce the railroad, she thought; she could find contentment here, in this forest; but she would build the path, then reach the road below, then rebuild the road-and then she would reach the storekeeper of Woodstock and that would be the end, and the empty white face staring at the universe in stagnant apathy would be the limit placed on her effort.†   (source)
  • The first wish men to profit by renouncing the earth, the second wish men to inherit the earth by renouncing all profit.†   (source)
  • She felt the anxious wonder she had never fully named or dismissed: wonder whether this feeling would bring him down to the ugliness of renunciation.†   (source)
  • We cannot serve him by renunciation.†   (source)
  • "That, I won't answer," "You, who loved your work, who respected nothing but work, who despised every kind of aimlessness, passivity and renunciation-have you renounced the kind of life you loved?"†   (source)
  • A morality that dares to tell you to find happiness in the renunciation of your happiness-to value the failure of your values-is an insolent negation of morality.†   (source)
  • "That, I won't answer," "You, who loved your work, who respected nothing but work, who despised every kind of aimlessness, passivity and renunciation-have you renounced the kind of life you loved?"†   (source)
  • But under the numbness, like the first thrust of a seed breaking through, he felt an emotion he could not identify except that it seemed familiar and very distant, like something experienced and renounced long ago.†   (source)
  • Somewhere in. the distant reaches of his childhood, when his own understanding of reality clashed with the assertions of others, with their arbitrary orders and contradictory demands, he gave in to so craven a fear of dependence that he renounced his rational faculty.†   (source)
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