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How To Use renege In A Sentence

• It is as if they resent her forcing brutal reality down their throat, as if she has reneged on a deal that she'd always be reassuringly shallow. Times, Sunday Times
• Firefighters and control staff now have a chance to stave off swingeing attacks on their conditions by employers who have reneged on an earlier pay deal.
• In 2009, however, Paris antiterrorist prosecutors started looking into whether the attack happened because France allegedly reneged on a pledge to pay commissions to middlemen related to the submarine contract, the people familiar with the probe have said. French Campaign-Finance Probe Advances
• Over 95% of all dollars in existence today were "printed" through bank lending since 1971, when Nixon reneged on gold exchangeability. Bill Baker: The Real Reason for QE2
• She reneged on the promise, leading to the loss of 400 jobs. Times, Sunday Times
• The fighters had reneged on a pledge to release foreign prisoners.
• The life insurer was forced last week to renege on its pledge.
• Unfairly and inaccurately called a traitor and a Bolshevik, she never reneged on her commitments to civil liberties or to pacifism.
• What's a nonprofit to do when a donor reneges on a pledge?
• Now, apparently, it's okay if a company reneges on a pension commitment.