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Synonyms for renege

break your word

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Synonyms for renege

to abandon a former position or commitment

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Synonyms for renege

the mistake of not following suit when able to do so

fail to fulfill a promise or obligation

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Performance analysis of queueing systems with balking and reneging in real life congestion problems is beneficial because one finds new managerial insights.
[Haight, 1959] studies queuing with reneging. [Ancker and Gafarian, 1963a] studies M/M/1/N queuing system with balking and reneging and derive its steady state solution.
The authors characterize this assumption as a "fatal flaw" because any retroactive effect would be "highly unusual" and because taxpayers would avoid it by liquidating their Roth accounts at the "merest hint" that Congress is considering reneging on them.
The temptation to renege in period t < T and the cost of reneging are given by:
Islamist Palestinian group Hamas accused the secular Fatah on Wednesday of reneging on a deal by which Hamas strongman Aziz Dweik would be restored to the position of speaker of the Legislative Council (parliament) after his released from jail, the pan-Arab daily ASHARQ AL AWSAT reported Thursday.
Robert Hantman, lawyer for Mr Caridi, said: "This type of reneging on a deal happens all too often in the entertainment world and must be stopped."
Riverside MP Louise Ellman accused Post Office Ltd of reneging on a deal to hold fire on the closure of the Mill Street and Soho Street branches.
Ripping up those papers (and then not burning them?) and reneging on your divorce-cancelling bargain will make Tanya's night of post-Stacey romps with you are sooo not worth it you know.
But Mr James has accused Nicholas Blake, who recommended an independent ombudsman be appointed, of reneging on his promise to the parents that if the Government did not appoint an ombudsman he would back parents' 10-year-long call for a public inquiry.
Mr Brown plans to deny us all of the above by reneging on a solemn promise made by New Labour.
He regards it as a reneging of a government promise not to promote such events.
The advocate-general also recognises that the legal vacuum which would arise from purely and simply reneging on the bilateral agreements "may have significant economic repercussions for EU carriers," both in terms of losses of traffic rights and because it would jeopardise existing alliances between EU and US companies (KLM/Northwest and Skyteam alliances).
There is a problem with Hamas, they keep reneging on the agreements".
After the first year, the Wilsons' monthly payments jumped from $1,200 to $2,070 as a result of escrow shortages and the developer reneging on an agreement to pay taxes for the first year.
LAST MONTH, in my article reflecting on how Greg Nichols had been let down by some of the very people he had left Australia to serve, I said: "It is the ones who are most culpable [for reneging on their 2001 agreement with BHB to pool pictures and data] who are now the most vociferous in their criticism of the architects of the modernisation and commercialisation of racing, as if trying to divert attention from their own errors."