| A new theory predicts when countries will honor or renege on their international obligations. |
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| The problem arises where, in this situation, the principal instead wants to renege on the transaction. |
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| If I tempt you with ice-cream knowing that you will renege on your diet as a result, am I partly responsible for your making a pig of yourself? |
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| Theodore deprived his new appointees of any financial incentive to renege by ensuring that Council membership remained unsalaried. |
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| However, penalized players must continue to finish the hand as if they did not renege. |
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| Any time a player accidentally misplays during the play portion of the hand, it is called a renege. |
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| So many are using this economic crisis as a justification to roll back and renege on collective agreements. |
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| But Brown told Short that Blair would renege on the deal anyway if he went along with such a scheme. |
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| If you can give yourself more than one reason to do something, you are less likely to renege on your promises, I find. |
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| This was the drill: Pyongyang would make threats, then promise concessions, then receive aid, then renege. |
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| If they are not and they renege then I believe we should consolidate with the Europeans and all the Balkan regions. |
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| The life insurer was forced last week to renege on its pledge. |
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| In general, play stops when a renege is figured out and the reneger gets points for that hand, while the others get the points they have at that point. |
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| The man is single-minded, stubborn even, and it seems odd that after repeatedly resisting the heartfelt pleas of his countrymen, Larsson might renege on his solemn vow. |
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| Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger convinced Reagan to renege on his support for these cuts, so they never happened. |
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| The incoming customers are impatient and may renege on seeing a long queue of the customers for the service. |
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| We oppose blatant attempts to renege on commitments which have been made to less developed countries. |
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| Macpherson says the experience of countries that renege on their debt is not a happy one. |
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| We cannot afford to see federal government renege on its responsibility to create environmental assessments that speak to all Canadians. |
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| Now it seems to me they want to renege on that and get a piece of the pie, when they already had the opportunity to increase their fees. |
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| Donors, in particular, must not use the financial crisis to renege on their pledges. |
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| Rich countries must not use this economic turmoil to renege on their promises to the world's poorest and most vulnerable. |
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| Lenders need to gauge whether governments will renege on their commitments. |
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| The financial crisis must not be an excuse for donors to renege on their pledges. |
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| He is ready to renege on his promises, his commitments and his red book for the sole purpose of serving his party. |
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| Did the Nato partners offer a binding commitment to abstain from expansion into eastern Europe, and then renege on it? |
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| The New Democratic Party chose to renege on it, overthrow the government, and thus gave the Conservative Party the opportunity to do what it wished, and it extended the mission. |
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| Media personalities renege on promises of confidentiality for the sake of a titillating sound bite, and businesspeople sell products they know to be defective. |
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| Clay, whose supporters attempted to portray his positions on slavery differently in the North and South and who attempted to renege on his opposition to annexation, was painted as a vacillator by the Democrats. |
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| What Gap wants is the right to renege on its commitments when it wishes. |
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| How can the government renege on such a pressing commitment? |
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| Canada now appears to be trying to renege on this major condition. |
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| The father's consent was found to be informed and since it had been relied upon by the mother, the father could not renege on his initial consent to the relocation. |
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| When it comes to defending the fundamental elements of our culture, which define our distinct identity, the Conservatives have not hesitated to renege on their promises. |
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| I want to believe that the government bill will strengthen and give more teeth to the child support provisions and make it more difficult for parents to renege on their responsibility to their children. |
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| Nigeria is a responsible member of the Comity of nations and therefore cannot renege on agreements duly negotiated and signed except as provided by law. |
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| Nor should we renege on the principle of 'own merits': a candidate state has the right to be assessed on its own merits irrespective of extraneous political considerations. |
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| It is clear that a court will not allow employers to renege on such commitments on the basis that they violate provisions of the collective agreement. |
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| We also need to be wary that talk of economic growth in Africa does not make the world's richer countries think they can renege on their development aid obligations. |
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| It would continue to support the international community's efforts to provide humanitarian assistance whenever necessary and would not renege on its responsibility to protect refugees. |
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| Because, if our neighbours and suppliers, with whom we have mutual dependency, constantly renege on agreements, what confidence can we have in the future? |
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| The result of the next eight months of climate diplomacy will write the text of our history books for generations and, as political leaders in our own communities and collectively, we cannot renege on our responsibility. |
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| If they renege on even one, we can challenge it. |
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| The Director-General fully agrees with the need to take immediate steps to ensure that the current financial and economic crisis does not lead countries to renege on their commitments to education. |
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| Many developed nations continue to renege on agreed global commitments to eradicate poverty, including meeting the target of 0.7 per cent of their gross national product in development assistance. |
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| If you renege, then markets don't trust you. |
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| By helping people to make forward-looking decisions for themselves that they cannot easily renege on later, they enlarge their freedom, making it possible for them to do things they otherwise could not do. |
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| And, if he can do that, what else, what other promises will the Tories renege on? |
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| When a judge recently agreed to let United Airlines renege on its pension promises to its workers, a new and cloudy day had dawned. |
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| The second trend is the growing number of new hires who renege on their acceptances. |
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| Since most of the characters are hustlers, their stories often involve johns who go psycho mid-sex, or who renege on an agreed-on payment. |
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