The phrase "abdicating control" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of relinquishing authority or responsibility over something.
Example: "By abdicating control over the project, the manager allowed the team to take more initiative and make their own decisions."
Alternatives: "relinquishing authority" or "giving up control".
Worse, blaming parents for abdicating control over their children's diets fails to recognize the extent of advertising and marketing surrounding families, Mr. Ruskin said.
Mr. Bogdanoff criticized the county executive for abdicating control of housing to local authorities, charging that if it were left to individual municipalities, affordable housing would never be built.
Because of a meltdown in the schedule for training county election workers, Georgia ended up abdicating control of the election to Diebold technicians, who ran it on the state's behalf – without the voters being told.
No airline today has done that, with airlines unnecessarily abdicating control of the movement of a plane to air traffic control as soon as the plane leaves the gate.
No reputable writer would give five to ten years to a project only to abdicate control to a third party.
If President Bush abdicates control of Iraq to the U.N. soon, Arabs may gain all that and more.
To suggest that the Smithsonian, in its agreement with the Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation, has abdicated control of the exhibition "The Spirit of America" ignores the fact that we retain explicit and exclusive control as part of this agreement.
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.
Surprisingly, younger women were more likely to abdicate control of all financial matters to their husbands than older ones.
Or, more importantly, why would any company so easily and unnecessarily abdicate control of its primary production assets to the government?
All I wanted do do was point out that the situation is clear: our entire society has irreversibly become reliant on factors over which we have long abdicated control.
