Sentence examples for Was abdicated from inspiring English sources

On 9 November, Wilhelm II abdicated at Spa – or, to be exact, he was abdicated.

The picture he draws of Abu Ghraib is one in which Army regulations and the Geneva conventions were routinely violated, and in which much of the day-to-day management of the prisoners was abdicated to Army military-intelligence units and civilian contract employees.

A week later King Juan Carlos announced he was abdicating in favour of his son, Felipe.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was right last week when she warned that Pakistan was "abdicating to the Taliban".

Extreme catholicity rarely pleases anybody; the critics' usual complaint has been that the Whitney was abdicating its authority by including so much junk.

Mr. Byrd argued that the Senate was abdicating its responsibilities by not insisting on greater oversight of the administration's antiterror efforts.

He had been required to maintain the pose and he did not regret doing so, but it was a pose nonetheless, and one he was abdicating.

Yes, I know he was "triangulating". But he was abdicating too.

"He's abdicated his responsibility".

Fiduciary decision-making cannot be abdicated, even if a majority of shareholders have a definite preference on an issue.

And that responsibility cannot be abdicated by either.