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Strengthening nuclear counterproliferation measures is important, but the impact of a British nuclear renunciation would be minimal.
Such an austere destination was, he warned, far more elusive, demanding severe discipline and total renunciation.
Even Rimbaud's renunciation is travestied by Vincent Molinier, who, having killed his lover, goes mad in a remote corner of Africa.
He's doing an act of penance, and in the Hindu religion it's a renunciation.
An acceptance by the holder of the acceptor's offer to pay a composition is not a renunciation of the holder's rights.
They are mere rhetorical flourishes designed to conceal an actual renunciation.
Some will say it was a remarkable act of self denial akin to the penitential days of renunciation in Biblical times.
They take the position that it constituted an unconditional disclaimer, or renunciation, on his part of any interest in the Trust.
The motive was mainly ascetic, but was in part connected with the greater authority which, in antiquity, attached to such renunciation.
A white horse taking to the air, with his master astride it and the groom hanging on to the tail, represents renunciation.
We seem to be confronted in these films by the masochistic pleasure women take in their own self-sacrifice or renunciation.
While the shrug is a gesture of renunciation, it is also a performance that maintains dignity.
During World War I the term was narrowed to mean an individual's total renunciation of war and social violence.
Rogozhin proposes that they give each other the crosses they wear round their necks, and stammers a renunciation of Nastasia.
Daya Nath believed that mental purity could only be obtained through renunciation of the world, observance of rituals, introspection, and yoga.
To start the renunciation procedure, you have to be outside of the United States and swear your oath of renunciation to a U.S. consular officer.
Technically, Miss Stein's economy of commas may be compared with a complete renunciation of the pedal in playing the piano.
It was the supreme anthem of renunciation, of scorn, of derision at the pretensions of the ungifted and the insensitive.
The argument for the implicit renunciation, of course, also strengthens the case for the explicit.
A voluntary restructuring scheme is proposed to encourage factory closures and renunciation of quota.
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If I had been weak, I should have groaned aloud in the agony of renunciation.
People said he had learned renunciation and was the most Christlike man they had ever known.
The words were uttered with a subtle renunciation that was this man's religion.
There is no halt to be looked for, no tranquillity in renunciation and wilful blindness.
She had wept only in the struggle of obedience and the renunciation of passion.
It was said that he was an anchorite who lived in the Franconian forests and preached renunciation of all earthly pleasures.
It was through her renunciation that he had grown so strong, so pure, so good.
It meant renunciation of all social and sentimental diversions of Kankakee.
He talked of renunciation, but it was with an anguish so keen as to make me wince for him who felt it.
He seized his pallette and brushes and worked furiously while Mary stood, still flaming with her renunciation.
It reaffirms the Confession of Faith of 1560, but contains also a solemn renunciation in great detail of the errors of Popery.
She had accomplished a hideous act of renunciation and returned to the One.
His renunciation had in it that of the beau geste which she secretly adored.
She existed, unapproachable, behind the blank wall of his renunciation.
His wife heaved a deep sigh of apprehension, of renunciation, of monition.
In common with Tractarians such as John Henry Newman, his ritualistic rejection of food is accompanied by a renunciation of sexual appetite.
He sought reversal and renunciation as the signs of his earthly aspirations to lowliness before God.
Zora knows this glimmering light is not love, but renunciation.
Flagellants joined martyrs, hermits, and mystics as religious figures who attempted to understand Christ through renunciation.
For a moment love had lifted him to sublime heights of honor and renunciation.
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