What's the difference between renege and rescind?

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.

Rescind


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cut off; to abrogate; to annul.
  • (v. t.) Specifically, to vacate or make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or by superior authority; to repeal; as, to rescind a law, a resolution, or a vote; to rescind a decree or a judgment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The wives and girlfriends who were originally invited to accompany their playing partners on the World Cup tour have had their invitations formally rescinded.
  • (2) The ruling cannot be appealed, in effect rescinding the mother's rights to see her son.
  • (3) The BMA, however, will still be free to join ongoing talks over reforms after the government rescinded a talks ban for any unions that had rejected the outline proposals.
  • (4) If Obama rescinded the system altogether, it would make it significantly harder for Trump to build a Muslim registry.
  • (5) Connolly told a local paper , “Our position, if the termination for parental rights is granted, is that [she] would not have standing to obtain the abortion.” He’s arguing that Doe’s parental rights should be rescinded because she is facing charges of chemical endangerment of a child.
  • (6) More than 1,300 church members in Osorno, along with 30 priests from the diocese and 51 of Chile’s 120 members of parliament, sent letters to Francis in February urging him to rescind the appointment.
  • (7) Meanwhile environmental groups have said Feldman's ruling may have to be rescinded because of the possible conflict of interests.
  • (8) Both the refusal of Labour to rescind arms exports licenses issued to Indonesia granted under the Conservatives, and figures showing the number of arms exports licences issued with respect to Indonesia , have bought the sincerity of Labour's policy into question.
  • (9) The supreme court, led by an increasingly assertive and popular chief justice, has long demanded the government write to Switzerland to rescind a 2008 notification that it was no longer a party to corruption charges against President Asif Ali Zardari that Swiss officials had investigated.
  • (10) Asked if Australia would rescind an invite to Russian president Vladimir Putin to the G20 summit in Brisbane scheduled for November, Abbott responded: “I don’t want to pre-empt what happens down the track.” Flight MH17 was flying over Ukrainian airspace, 1000 feet above a no-fly zone when it is believed to have been shot down by a surface-to-air missile.
  • (11) The House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi, said: “There must be no sugarcoating the reality that a white nationalist has been named chief strategist for the Trump administration.” Departing US Senate minority leader Harry Reid on Tuesday called on the president to rescind Bannon’s appointment, which he said has only “deepened” the country’s divisions since the election.
  • (12) English rewrote Walsh's article, subbing it down to 2,200 words, and then persuaded his friend and colleague to rescind his resignation.
  • (13) Yet he defended the appointments that have now been rescinded, on the grounds that anyone working across government should properly be a civil servant.
  • (14) Will David Cameron have the courage to do what veteran Yorkshire Post columnist Bernard Dineen suggests today , namely to rescind my expulsion and give the Conservative party the alliance its history and policies deserve, with the mainstream EPP?
  • (15) That provoked uproar in the press room and was eventually rescinded.
  • (16) In Washington, Abadi insisted Iraqi fighters maintained the “upper hand psychologically” and that areas controlled by his government were increasing while those controlled by militants were rescinding.
  • (17) He rescinded Malawi's recognition of Taiwan and in 2007 established diplomatic links with Beijing.
  • (18) The fact they have rescinded this rule, which was introduced specifically to protect citizens from being screwed over, is insane,” she said.
  • (19) Yesterday, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) rescinded the invitations of several journalists to attend a public briefing regarding a multilateral trade agreement under negotiation called the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP).
  • (20) Describing the award as “morally reprehensible” and calling for it to be rescinded, the petition has gathered more than 500 staff signatures.