Sentence examples for Relinquishing from inspiring English sources

The World Cup began with Argentina losing to Cameroon, who finished with nine men on the field, and ended with the holders relinquishing the trophy after being similarly reduced in numbers by red cards.

But in his 15-minute internet audio message posted online on Friday, Zawahiri condemned Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood for having "tried its best to satisfy America and the secularists" by relinquishing jihad, usually defined by al-Qaida to mean armed struggle.

In the 1990s it toyed with relinquishing some of its vast empire it runs everything from monetary policy to public-debt issuance and bank regulation.

But more important, he added, was to find people who cared a great deal about precisely the same things that mattered to him.The strength of Apple's senior team is one reason that the firm's share price barely flinched when news emerged last month that Mr Jobs was relinquishing his role as chief executive and becoming executive chairman.

Relinquishing power after two terms may be an ideal, but these are not normal times.

They think the best way to do so is to put in place new funding rules, including caps on donations, that will deal with sleaze once and for all.More controversially, both would like to extend state funding for political parties to compensate them for relinquishing big donations.

Ministers want to see half of all young people in universities by 2010 (numbers have stalled at 42%), without relinquishing the world-class quality of its top institutions.

Tishman and BlackRock defaulted on their debt payments in January, relinquishing the once-prized property to creditors.That set off another battle.

A Syrian with experience in unofficial "track-two" negotiations suggests that Israel could make its own gesture by relinquishing the Shabaa Farms, a small, unpopulated nub of territory on the Golan which Lebanon claims as its own.

Giving up political power means relinquishing economic power.

Its Communist Party seemed to be tentatively relinquishing its hold over the media jealously guarded by all totalitarian regimes.