Sentence examples for abdicate for from inspiring English sources

"The Senate has a constitutional responsibility here that it cannot abdicate for partisan political reasons".

"You can basically say, 'Let's abdicate for a minute with what's happening on the national scene.

A former senator from New York, Clinton said the Senate "has a constitutional responsibility here that it cannot abdicate for partisan political reasons".

Democrats, meanwhile, are savoring the prospect of the president swiftly nominating a liberal to the bench, using the Constitution as their defense, saying, in the words of Hillary Clinton: "The Senate has a constitutional responsibility here that it cannot abdicate for partisan political reasons".

"It is a tragedy that same-sex couples are forced to ask the courts to fulfil a responsibility which has been abdicated for too long by too many politicians".

More independent of the powerful Italian Crescentii family than John XVII, he eventually abdicated for unknown reasons and died shortly thereafter at the monastery of St. Paul Outside the Walls, Rome.

On Dec. 11, 1936, the day after Edward VIII signed away his rights to the British crown, he announced on a BBC broadcast that he had abdicated for love of a woman whom he wished to marry, but could not marry as king.

Regardless of what the British junior heptathlon record holder achieves in Sopot, Poland, interest in the progress of the first in line to the throne Jessica Ennis-Hill temporarily abdicated for motherhood will continue to grow as momentum builds towards this summer's Commonwealth Games.

When his brother abdicates for the woman he loves, Bertie is thrust onto the throne just as England needs a king to rally around for World War II.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the new leader of Turkey, regained Smyrna and Eastern Thrace, annexed by Athens at the end of World War I. Following a coup by disgruntled military officers, Constantine I abdicated for a second time on 27 September 1922.

This year's Best Picture winner at the Academy Awards (and nominated for 12 Oscars),was The King's Speech, the story of King George VI of England who was suddenly forced to ascend the throne when his brother Edward VIII abdicates for love.