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How To Use renege In A Sentence

• Following England's World Cup debacle, the site became part of a wider charge sheet that suggested Capello had lost the sure-footedness that guided the team to qualification, amid questions about his decision to renege on an earlier promise not to pick injured players, to take those in form to South Africa and his aloof style. Capello Index risks clash with Premier League as fiasco escalates
• The suit further alleges that the sheik reneged on repeated oral pledges to provide for her long-term care.
• You reneged on your end of the deal when you started digging into my past.
• Hospital authorities promised to pay up, after protests two months ago, but then reneged on the commitment.
• Some employers reneged on agreements once the recession set in.
• The union said that the company had reneged on an agreement about how to pay workers. Times, Sunday Times
• In the programme 'Buyer Beware', Primetime Investigates outlined some serious problems encountered by buyers, sellers and householders, including: bidding against themselves as estate agents make up fake prices to push up the price of a property, fake bidders being used in auctions, high fees being charged for services by property management agencies and 'gazumping', where sellers renege on a sale agreement and then sell for a higher price. Politics.ie
• To appease unions, he reneged on promised labor-market reforms.
• Equally the constituents face the dilemma that the ruler at some point may renege on his promises and confiscate the accumulated wealth of his constituents.
• 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