foresworn

Since those days of playing dress-up with my sister, I’d foresworn white gold.

Since those days of playing dress-up with my sister, I’d foresworn white gold.

He arrived for the inauguration in his white Volkswagen Jetta, having also foresworn the Presidential limousine.

He had foresworn alcohol for a few years – not for health reasons, he said, but because he was bored with it.

This is a controversial claim as al-Qaida, founded in 1988, has in recent years foresworn such long-range operations in favour of a strategy privileging a slow and steady building of influence and capability at a local level within the Islamic world.