Sentence examples for * relinquish in from inspiring English sources

He is also giving his subjects something they often relinquish in the doctor's office: control.

But Henson put his side into a lead they were not to relinquish in the 53rd minute.

How much must we offer and relinquish in order to have the opportunity to live in peace?

Addiction, by definition, is a compulsive behaviour that you cannot control or relinquish, in spite of its destructive consequences.

She has a troubled past, a bad attitude and a grudge against her mother that she refuses to relinquish in spite of Elizabeth's condition.

Meanwhile, his cousins are urging him to sell the family's vast landholdings for development — to relinquish, in his eyes, the final vestige of their native Hawaiian ancestry.

The experience of the ousted Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is also now seared in his thinking and was a key factor in Ennahda's decision to relinquish power in 2014 in the face of rising protests over security and economic failures.

Rather he reflected that this shoe salesman, in America attached to foreign doctrines, who could not relinquish Europe in the New World, was now, in Paris, sleeping in the Cadillac, encased in this gorgeous Fisher Body from Detroit.

In the 10th century the Vietnamese kingdom of Dai Viet began to exert pressure on Champa, forcing it to relinquish Amaravati in 1000 and Vijaya in 1069.

He also repeated earlier assertions that he accepted the presidency on the condition that Dr. Silber, who has been reluctant to relinquish authority in the past, not remain in his job or on the board in any capacity.

Bingu alleged that "foreign agents" were plotting regime change in Malawi and pledged to relinquish power in 2014.