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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.

Word


Definition:

  • (n.) The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable.
  • (n.) Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page.
  • (n.) Talk; discourse; speech; language.
  • (n.) Account; tidings; message; communication; information; -- used only in the singular.
  • (n.) Signal; order; command; direction.
  • (n.) Language considered as implying the faith or authority of the person who utters it; statement; affirmation; declaration; promise.
  • (n.) Verbal contention; dispute.
  • (n.) A brief remark or observation; an expression; a phrase, clause, or short sentence.
  • (v. i.) To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.
  • (v. t.) To express in words; to phrase.
  • (v. t.) To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or words.
  • (v. t.) To flatter with words; to cajole.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These 150 women, the word acknowledges, were killed for being women.
  • (2) He spoke words of power and depth and passion – and he spoke with a gesture, too.
  • (3) Looks like some kind of dissent, with Ameobi having words with Phil Dowd at the kick off after Liverpool's second goal.
  • (4) In the experiments to be reported here, computer-averaged EMG data were obtained from PCA of native speakers of American English, Japanese, and Danish who uttered test words embedded in frame sentences.
  • (5) This study examined the frequency of occurrence of velar deviations in spontaneous single-word utterances over a 6-month period for 40 children who ranged in age from 1:11 (years:months) to 3:1 at the first observation.
  • (6) In other words, the commitment to the euro is too deep to be forsaken.
  • (7) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
  • (8) Tony Abbott has refused to concede that saying Aboriginal people who live in remote communities have made a “lifestyle choice” was a poor choice of words as the father of reconciliation issued a public plea to rebuild relations with Indigenous people.
  • (9) The force has given "words of advice" to eight people, all under 25, over messages posted online.
  • (10) Superior memory for the word list was found when the odor present during the relearning session was the same one that had been present at the time of initial learning, thereby demonstrating context-dependent memory.
  • (11) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
  • (12) There on the street is Young Jo whose last words were, "I am wery symbolic, sir."
  • (13) Sagan had a way of not wasting words, even playfully.
  • (14) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
  • (15) In this connection the question about the contribution of each word of length l (l-tuple) to the inhomogeneity of genetic text arises.
  • (16) But mention the words "eurozone crisis" to other Finns, and you could be rewarded with little more than a confused, albeit friendly, smile.
  • (17) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
  • (18) His words surprised some because of an impression that the US was unwilling to talk about these issues.
  • (19) The phrase “self-inflicted blow” was one he used repeatedly, along with the word “glib” – applied to his Vote Leave opponents.
  • (20) In the 1980s when she began, no newspaper would even print the words 'breast cancer'.

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