Examples of using "отречься" in a sentence and their english translations:
Nothing can force me to give it up.
The Emperor Akihito of Japan has announced his intention to abdicate.
with the facts of his situation: the war was lost, and he must abdicate.
They told him the war was lost, and he must abdicate - in favour of his son, if possible.
Joan of Arc refused to renounce her belief that the voice she heard was from God and none other.
Everybody knows the line “The boy didn't crack under interrogation”, but nowadays many people don’t know the continuation: it is a verse about a boy who died, having refused to renounce his Komsomol membership.