What's the difference between renegade and renege?

Renegade


Definition:

  • (n.) One faithless to principle or party.
  • (n.) An apostate from Christianity or from any form of religious faith.
  • (n.) One who deserts from a military or naval post; a deserter.
  • (n.) A common vagabond; a worthless or wicked fellow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But Abul Fotouh, an independent Islamist and Brotherhood renegade, also appeals to many liberals and supporters of the revolution, as well as some Salafists.
  • (2) Where people were terrorised into leaving, Karadžić claimed it was the work of “criminals or renegades, and people carrying out retaliation whose own homes were burned”.
  • (3) His buddies – the far-right, climate-denying , UN-hating renegades who formed his campaign brains trust – are egging him on to simply break it, to smash it on the floor for a good laugh.
  • (4) He discussed his early influences and rock’n’roll renegades, telling us what’s so great about the bands that he’s booked for his takeover of the ATP festival at Prestatyn in April.
  • (5) He can truly be held hostage by a handful of renegade conservatives in his caucus.
  • (6) At dawn, the muezzin's call to prayer was drowned out by the sound of mortar fire as troops loyal to Saleh fought with a division of renegade soldiers for control over strategic parts of the capital.
  • (7) With renegade former Liberal MP Geoff Shaw now an independent, the major parties are locked at 43 MPs each, plus the Speaker.
  • (8) She’s such a renegade.’ “I couldn’t get the party people onboard until after the primary.
  • (9) Even as the Nairobi talks were under way, a key regional capital in South Sudan reportedly changed hands once again as a renegade tribal warlord attacked the town of Malakal and declared his allegiance to Machar’s rebels.
  • (10) There aren’t enough Trotskyists, entryists, devious Tories and random renegades to explain such an overwhelming victory.
  • (11) Khalifa Haftar: renegade general causing upheaval in Libya Read more Many suspect he seeks national power.
  • (12) Russell's career stuttered following the release of the cult 1980 drama Altered States, which starred William Hurt as a renegade scientist although he continued to direct, in film and on TV, throughout the 1980s and 90s.
  • (13) We’ll certainly be talking to him and the Renegades about it.
  • (14) A third Islamist, Abdel Moneim Aboul Futouh, a renegade former Brotherhood member, is also running.
  • (15) Sana'a is now gripped by street battles and exchanges of shelling between Republican Guards led by Saleh's son and a division of renegade soldiers who have been backing the pro-democracy demonstrators.
  • (16) What western leaders celebrating their victory do not and cannot say is how many civilians died in the war – some estimates rise into the tens of thousands; what are the chances of establishing a genuinely democratic, inclusive government in Tripoli; whether rival political and tribal factions and Islamists may yet turn on each other; how, in such a scenario, Britain and other EU countries can prevent mass emigration from and through Libya into southern Europe; when, if ever, the renegade Gaddafi and his cronies will face the international criminal court; and most problematic of all, how the US, Britain and France square their robust intervention in Libya with their hands-off policy towards Syria, a strategically more important country where the lethal repression of civilians exceeds anything attempted by Gaddafi this year.
  • (17) Nevertheless, the future success of more reliable renegades like Senator Warren depends on their being able to capitalise on simmering party divisions like this – arguably in much the same way that the Tea Party has leveraged power among Republicans so successfully in recent years.
  • (18) Khalifa Haftar: renegade general causing upheaval in Libya Read more Crispin Blunt, the chair of the foreign affairs select committee, is one of the British voices urging the US not to be lured by the myth of a strong man.
  • (19) But Llew Smith was careful not to get expelled from Labour as 20 party veterans were (it's in the rules) for openly endorsing the renegade Law.
  • (20) Group-IB, which runs one of Russia's two official internet watchdogs, said the number of malicious .su websites doubled in 2011 and again in 2012, surpassing the vast number of renegade sites on .ru and its newer Cyrillic-language counterpart.

Renege


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To deny; to disown.
  • (v. i.) To deny.
  • (v. i.) To revoke.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When Barak reneged on his commitment to transfer the three Jerusalem villages - a commitment he had specifically authorised Clinton to convey to Arafat - Clinton was furious.
  • (2) And the AMA’s president, Brian Owler, said the performance of hospitals would only get worse after the federal government “retreated from its responsibilities” on hospital funding, cutting $1.8bn in immediate funding over the next four years in the 2014 budget and reneging on a deal to help meet increased hospital costs in the long term, saving $57bn over the next 10 years.
  • (3) If the Westminster gang reneges on the pledges made in the campaign, they will discover that hell hath no fury like this nation scorned.” “We have never been an ordinary political party,” Salmond told his audience.
  • (4) Although he appeared to renege during last year’s election campaign, Netanyahu still claims to support a two-state solution .
  • (5) The Bundesbank in Frankfurt said that Greece was threatening to renege on the terms of its #130bn bailout.
  • (6) Pfizer has said today that it will not seek to launch a hostile bid and must not renege on this promise.
  • (7) He asks, reeling off a list of pre-election pledges likely to be reneged upon in the forthcoming budget.
  • (8) That's probably why Tufts has reneged on its agreement with the government on how it plans to deal with sexual assault on campus – administrators know it's unlikely that they'll have their funding pulled as a result of their non-compliance.
  • (9) Cameron says that he will not renege on his manifesto pledge to oppose a third runway "in this parliament", but sidesteps a Labour backbench call to rule out a third runway as long as he remained Conservative leader.
  • (10) Coe claimed that Britain's international reputation would be "trashed" if it reneged on a promise given to retain the track that was made during the bidding process.
  • (11) The crackdown came five days after mainly student demonstrators occupied the nearby legislature to protest the ruling party's decision to renege on a promised line-by-line review of the trade agreement.
  • (12) The Democratic Alliance (DA) accused anti-apartheid stalwart Mamphela Ramphele of reneging on a deal to join the party before this year's elections and said "she cannot be trusted".
  • (13) Lew repeatedly dismissed the idea , saying it was politically untenable, possibly impossible in practice, and effectively a default as America would be reneging on its commitments.
  • (14) Private landlords stop renting to “flaky” benefit recipients, social landlords’ rental income dries up and (because they are forced to renege on their own borrowing commitments) stop building new affordable housing.
  • (15) Things will fall apart, government will panic and renege.
  • (16) In the formal offer document Kroenke made a firm commitment to meet fans and his failure to do so has prompted some to consider reporting him to the takeover panel for reneging on his commitment.
  • (17) The strongest opposition, however, came from the Palestinian leadership, which insisted that Israel was reneging on its obligations and refused suggestions to link the promised release of a fourth group of prisoners with a commitment to extend peace talks beyond a deadline set by the US for the end of April.
  • (18) The government reneged on this promise and again excluded women from the elections, which, after a two-year postponement, are to take place next week.
  • (19) Don’t renege on the other world you have been shown.
  • (20) Reuters says Hollande is putting his "fiscal credibility on the line" In the Daily Telegraph, Louise Armitstead reckons French sovereign debt could be hit if Hollande disappoints, writing : Bond traders on Thursday were poised to dump French debt if Mr Hollande reneges on his promise.