Ms. Bonita effectively renounces her background in favor of up-to-date self-expression, adding gold leaf, paint and sand to color prints of movie-style Indian children and adults.

Because of that no monarch could effectively renounce his claims to any of the territories that were historically and/or ethnically Polish.

Cotton's approach attracted some detractors, but the medical establishment of the day did not effectively renounce or discipline him.

Because of the provisions of section 349(a)(5), Americans cannot effectively renounce their citizenship by mail, through an agent, or while in the United States.

The concept of opera expressed in "Opera and Drama" and in other essays effectively renounced the operas he had previously written, up to and including Lohengrin.

Having effectively renounced the Soviet Union, Mapam were now included in Ben-Gurion's coalitions for both the seventh and eighth governments.

Russia's share of the world economy is tiny, but its decision to effectively renounce its debts to investors crystallized investor fears.

What's more, countries like the Philippines that borrow from the I.M.F. and other international lending agencies effectively renounce their fiscal and, to a certain extent, political sovereignty.

It did not "pronounce itself officially favorable to, nor advise the adoption of, philosophical systems or determined ideologies", effectively renouncing anarchist communism.

The same day, Pentagon officials presented new directives that effectively renounced military use of highly coercive interrogation methods.