This kind of critique was much too often greeted as a renunciation of goals rather than an inquiry as to means.

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Well I wouldn't disagree with that basic principle, indeed the Downing Street Declaration enshrined those very principles that where there is a genuine renunciation of violence, a genuine commitment to democracy there there can be participation in the democratic process.

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The earnings exclusion cap is also a hypocritical outright renunciation of the rule against double taxation.

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Romney, in contrast, has not followed a policy of total renunciation.

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As with Katrina, there is a back story for government's dysfunction: It's a long saga involving the fervent renunciation of the idea of financial regulation, bought-and-paid-for tax favors, confusion about how globalization affects money markets, a general ignorance about the modern financial world and a stunning lack of common sense.

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Renunciation of military solutions after all, is a cornerstone of Japan's post-WWII success and high esteem in the region.

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Then, the musical references to classics like the final trio of "Der Rosenkavalier, " to signal renunciation of youth and love (there's even a nonsinging character called Sophie), and the orchestral passage after Tosca murders Scarpia, festooning the corpse with candles and a cross (here, the diva burns her photographs and then snuffs all the candles in her apartment).

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Not from an inadvertent glance or a yearning gaze did Orpheus lose Eurydice forever, but from an act of renunciation born of existential despair.

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Two of its central historical planks were bolted into the Good Friday agreement: the principle that Ulster cannot be forced into a united Ireland without the consent of the majority of its people, and the renunciation of Ireland's constitutional claim to the north.

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