5 sentences with 'renounce'
Example sentences and phrases with the word renounce and other words derived from it.
• « The Carthaginians sued for peace in 241 BCE and agreed to renounce their claims to Sicily and pay a war indemnity. »
• « Diocletian banned Christian worship and executed several thousand Christians who refused to renounce their beliefs in an attempt to stamp out the cult once and for all. Needless to say, it was a spectacular failure. »
• « Justinian insisted that all teachers and tutors convert to Christianity and renounce their teaching of the Greek classics; when they refused in 528, he closed Plato's Academy, which had then operated for almost 1,000 years. »
• « Ferdinand II sent officials to Prague to demand that all of Bohemia renounce Protestantism and convert to Catholicism. »
• « The Sons of Liberty barricaded Hutchinson's house and demanded that he renounce the Stamp Act; he refused and the protesters ransacked and burned his house. »