Word: foreswear
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Peace Corps spokesmen are firm in denying any possibility of religious overtones entering a Peace Corps project. They say that before signing a contract with the Corps, any organization must foreswear proselytizing, and guarantee open recruitment of volunteers. A sponsoring group, therefore, is not only restricted from promoting its own religious doctrines, but must open its ranks to all applicants...
...straight forward enough as it came out of loudspeakers, began to take on a tenuous air as White House interpreters got to work on it. Emerging from a conference with President Roosevelt, Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins explained that during the "trial period" Labor would not be asked to foreswear the strike. Secretary Stephen Early made it known that employers would still be free to invoke the lockout, and decision to submit their troubles to arbitration or mediation would have to come voluntarily from each side...
...wistfulness across the footlights. When reporters ask him if he is any kin to John L. Sullivan, Burleigh asks "Is he a fighter, too?" He is certain, however, that the championship is "in the bag." This piece of impudence so enrages Speed that, although he has about decided to foreswear the match as a favor to Burleigh's sister with whom he is in love, the bout takes place. Not only is Speed knocked silly but also loses all his marrying money by betting on himself...
Missionary Judd was more than a spiritual adviser to the Hawaiians. He was one of the first foreigners to foreswear his U. S. allegiance and become a subject of King Kamahameha III (1832-1854). He aided in establishing the first constitutional monarchy on the Islands. He served his brown-skinned monarch as Minister of Finance, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of the Interior...
...with a camel, a rich man's son, Heaven, the eye of a needle. The law, equally familiar, has to do with two Gods-one the Father of the Christian faith, the other Mam mon; a man cannot serve both. If he cleaves to the one, must he foreswear wealth? or can he discipline wealth and its devouring deity to the service he has himself elected...