Sentence examples for a surrender of power from inspiring English sources

In particular, Congress has not been willing to give up its power over what is perhaps the government's single most important program, nor should we expect such a surrender of power in the future.

Now she is facing what may be a more serious threat to her political future: the growing rebellion of council members who have criticized her attempts to limit damage from the revelations as amounting to a surrender of power to the mayor.

Those in favor of amending the National Emergencies Act of 1976 remain determined to pursue bipartisan changes in legislation they view as a surrender of congressional power.

Jacob Rees-Mogg, a leading Eurosceptic, told the Times that Cameron faced a serious battle: "As the prime minister has made it clear that he wishes to bring back powers in relation to justice and home affairs, it is surprising that the foreign office is paving the way for a further surrender of power to Brussels.

Kant recognizes that actual states will balk at this international federation since rulers will object to such a surrender of their sovereign power.

South Africa began unearthing its past only after a relatively peaceful surrender of power by the white minority, and under the aegis of two figures of indisputable moral integrity -- Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela.

He later said that the military had forced him to tender his resignation, calling his surrender of power a coup.

This voluntary surrender of power, by a man in good health, and a man as confident of his judgment and abilities as is the leading citizen of Johnson City, should not, we think be construed as a defeat, for it is very likely that if he had so chosen he would have won the nomination and, after that, the election.

It is an astonishing display of the repeated surrender of power that should disqualify him from being called a politician.

It ignores our governors' total surrender of power to markets, a simple question of under-regulation in the misplaced belief that rampant speculative trading has anything to do with rational pricing.

In his pomp he is all frisky hauteur, and he invests Richard's surrender of power at Flint Castle with a wall-beating rage: he also has a capacity to isolate key phrases so that "some poisoned by their wives", in his catalogue of the deaths of kings, gains unusual force.