Sentence examples for abdicates from inspiring English sources

Doing so abdicates all control of the trip to the airlines.

THE King of Belgium abdicates, Japan holds upper-house elections, Cuba's unions discuss labour practices and the pope visits Brazil.

Clearly he failed, and in Mr Wall's view the general's policy of independence for France (witness its nuclear weapons) has subsequently failed too: "Whether in Iraq or Bosnia or Kosovo, the United States has taken the lead; when it abdicates, despite numerous French efforts, there is no European policy to fill the vacuum.

Most well-educated Indians have moved off reservation land, leaving an ill-educated and poverty-stricken group that too easily abdicates control to the few remaining members who know how to pull the right levers.

Eventually unable to cope, Dale abdicates; Maggie takes the child back, and a tug of war ensues.While Ms Kaplan's benign ending does seem implausible, her insights into the strains of this unnatural circumstance ring true.

"Lansley's Act is denationalising healthcare because the abolition of the duty to provide a NHS throughout England, abdicates government responsibility for universal services to ad hoc bodies (such as clinical commissioning groups) and competitive markets controlled by private sector-dominated quangos".

Targets, guidelines, and checklists allow organisations to abdicate responsibility for ensuring that they are doing the right things by simply allowing them to report they are doing things right, ticking boxes rather than delivering care.

"That is not like a general election where you almost abdicate responsibility to the party that you vote for [to make decisions on your behalf], they understand that they've got to get it right [in the referendum]." It's precisely this anxiety that Agnes Wilson, a volunteer at the RNLI charity shop in Dunbar, reflects when she explains her own indecision.

Edward abdicated on 10 December 1936, four days after Grant sent his intercepted telegram.

What is most frightening, however, is that both private and public media have chosen to abdicate their duty to question the state's narrative and hold officials to account.

When the party finally had to abdicate power, in 1990, he accepted it without bitterness – and made his apology for martial law and past Communist regime excesses.