Sentence examples for abdicated power from inspiring English sources

While the court retreated from its efforts to overturn New Deal legislation, Professor Barnett said, those later opinions should not be interpreted as having fully abdicated power to Congress.

Weary, he'd abdicated power for peaceful seclusion.

But Sheen was making a broader argument – about a political elite that has abdicated power to the market.

He abdicated power and was eventually captured by the British and placed in permanent exile on the remote, stony Atlantic isle of St Helena.

The book's thrust is that the prime minister abdicated power to Sonia Gandhi, matriarch of the family that has the Congress party at its beck and call.

The secretary went out of his way to praise the former president as "a great historical figure" because of his role as foreign minister of the Soviet Union in its final days and because he abdicated power peacefully last year.

Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the sitting shogun, realizing the futility of his situation, abdicated political power to the emperor.

The story surrounds him with moral inferiors, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the abdicated King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, who most deliciously betray anyone who seeks to impede their corrupt impulses.

Her lawyer, Mr. Celdrán, had previously represented Albert Solà, a waiter, in an unsuccessful paternity suit concerning Juan Carlos, the now-abdicated king of Spain.

"Politicians", said Johnson, "have frankly abdicated things that frankly should be within their power on immigration" – a sentiment steeped in generous ambiguity but clearly aimed, somehow, at the Home Secretary.

See id., at 35 ("[T]here is no doubt of the right of the legislature to resume the power at any time, for it can neither be taken away nor abdicated") (quoting S. Rep. No. 395, 43d Cong., 1st Sess.).