In a perfect world, no child would ever be relinquished, abandoned, or orphaned, but parents are simply frail and faulty human beings, and sometimes even die.
Where there's life, hope must never be relinquished.
The father who must be relinquished for the sake of his child's art is not hers, but his.
Despite his relatively progressive views, he never allowed his family's firm hold on Nicaraguan politics to be relinquished.
I imagined that as soon as BMI was devoured and assimilated, its former home at Terminal 1 would be relinquished.
In it, he suggests that religion has run its course as a useful adaptive tool for humans' survival and should be relinquished.
But he also said that "obviously the sooner that power could be relinquished to civilian authorities, the better for the democracy that the Egyptian people will have".
The gesture was necessary, he said, to show reciprocity, to underscore that the common Armenian biases against Kurds — as bloodthirsty savages — could also be relinquished.
Nevertheless, the requirement that hypotheses and theories be empirically testable, though it became more flexible and tolerant, could not be relinquished.
Institutions, which need money or space as artworks fill their basements, often look to sell items donated with the stipulation that they never be relinquished.
Some collectors, recognizing the chancy nature of their pledge, gave works provisionally -- not to be relinquished until the art has a home to go to.
