| In 1946, after the death of dictator Benito Mussolini, the reconstituted Italian government renounced its claims to its African colonies. |
| In 1843 French missionaries arrived at the island, and it was claimed for France, but on British representations the claim was renounced. |
| There were others who, in perhaps the first act of political idealism in their lives, renounced MAD in protest over its editor's departure. |
| Peru recently renounced its earlier recognition of the Court's jurisdiction. |
| The legal right share has priority over all other bequests in the will and, unless renounced, must be dealt with as a priority. |
| Many of them wept openly when he publicly renounced Tibet's claim to full independence. |
