Sentence examples for abdicate a from inspiring English sources

"Our laws have given them the wiggle room to abdicate a lot of their responsibility back to individuals.

Although the shah did not abdicate, a referendum resulted in the declaration on April 1 , 1979 of an Islamic republic in Iran.

"It's all very well for the government to say, 'Look, it's Nauru's problem' – we are paying taxpayers' money, we have indirect responsibility, we cannot abdicate a responsibility for vulnerable people, women and children and men in these circumstances.

The 1937 Social Credit backbenchers' revolt had forced Aberhart to abdicate a portion of his power to the newly created Social Credit Board, which consisted of five Social Credit backbenchers charged with supervising a commission of experts.

But just as undue judicial activism can intrude improperly on the legitimate authority of the other branches of government, undue judicial restraint can abdicate a fundamental responsibility of the judiciary.

The central feature of SDM is participation in the decision making process with the clinician (at least enough to abdicate a shared role if this is what they wish).

To delegate this function is to abdicate an essential responsibility of government.

In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson used the station to broadcast an appeal to Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II to abdicate, an address that historians credit with hastening the armistice.

Nor was I inclined to abdicate an essential part of the editor's job: to investigate complaints, publish retractions with prominence comparable to that of the original error, discipline transgressors and altogether uphold the standards for which an editor is legally and morally responsible.

Isn't this just abdicating a crucial part of the critical act?

(Representative Peter King has already complained that the President is "abdicating" — a verb that tells you a lot about why this was a good decision).