Sentence examples for abdicated over from inspiring English sources

He later abdicated over his relationship with Wallis Simpson.

Only 326 days into his reign, Edward VIII abdicates over his decision to marry twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson.

Sa'ad abdicated and Sabah took over, but by the time the abdication came through Kuwait's parliament had already voted Sa'ad out of office.

"It's not easy changing a management style when management to a large extent has abdicated its role over a period of time," Alderson said.

By doing so, they abdicated any control over the comments that appear on these pages online to Facebook.

In 1490, Sigismund was forced to abdicate and turn over all his territories to Frederick's son Maximilian I. Maximilian had married Mary of Burgundy in 1477 after the death of Charles the Bold in the Burgundy Wars and thus inherited the Burgundian territories: Duchy and County of Burgundy and the Netherlands.

(The political scene was rife with speculation over whether Lord Grenville, known for his extraordinary derrière, and his Whig coalition, known as the broad bottoms, would take over Parliament if George III abdicated).

The seventeenth chapter of the Zhuangzi notes that the sage-king Yao looked for a suitable successor, found the perfect candidate in Shun, and then abdicated so that Shun could take over the throne.

The Manchu emperor abdicated in February 1912, ending over 2,000 years of dynastic rule.

Pope Francis takes over from Benedict XVI, who abdicated last month.

WASHINGTON ― Just shy of eight years after President Barack Obama signed an executive order directing the closure of the military detention facilities in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the outgoing president said Congress chose politics over security and "abdicated their responsibility to the American people" by imposing restrictions on his administration's ability to shutter the facility.