Sentence examples for abdicated to from inspiring English sources

Sihanouk abdicated to make way for the 13th of his 14 known children from seven marriages.

"The industry to a degree has abdicated to directors," Mr. Bach told The Wall Street Journal.

In 305 the two emperors, Diocletian and Maximian, abdicated, to be succeeded by their respective deputy emperors, Galerius and Constantius.

Edward, who abdicated to marry the American socialite Wallis Simpson, faced numerous accusations of being a Nazi sympathiser.

By that point, however, the S.E.C. had abdicated to the Fed its authority over investment banks like Merrill Lynch.

When Edward abdicated to marry Wallis Simpson, the Soviet ambassador, Ivan Maisky, correctly saw this as a great blow to Nazi Germany.

He said postponing the summit would amount to "abdicating to the terrorists".

Except in the area of health care, where they abdicate to insurers  — we'd say with disastrous results".

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was right last week when she warned that Pakistan was "abdicating to the Taliban".

Reza Shah then decided to abdicate, to allow his son and heir, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, to adopt a policy appropriate to the new situation, and to preserve his dynasty.

The late Shah, for all his faults, had the decency to abdicate to stem further violence.