Sentence examples for abdicating her from inspiring English sources

Hours before the curtain went up, Wasserman Schultz announced she was also abdicating her ceremonial convention duties, and would not gavel the event to order.

In the Greek myth, when the flower maiden Persephone is raped to the underworld, the corn goddess Demeter lays the world waste, abdicating her function as guarantor of harvest and civilisation.

And in a personal twist, he accused Ms. Quinn, the City Council speaker, of abdicating her responsibility to have the Council monitor the police force and instead seeking to offload the task to a new and unnecessary bureaucracy.

December 8 , 1626Stockholm, Sweden April 19 , 1689Rome, Italy Christina, Swedish Kristina (born Dec. 8, 1626, Stockholm, Swed. died April 19 , 1689 Rome [Italy]), queen of Sweden (1644 54) who stunned all Europe by abdicating her throne.

"It is unacceptable for Attorney General Kathleen Kane to put her personal politics ahead of her taxpayer-funded job by abdicating her responsibilities," said Rob Gleason, chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party.

Where am I going?" Her messy 1949 divorce meant abdicating her position as America's Sweetheart, and she made no films afterward — but "Child Star" gives us no sense that it fazed her.

Philip then imprisoned Francis (October 1432) and forced Jacoba to abdicate her countship (1433).

Firestone abdicated her position at the centre of radical feminism after her book's publication.

Reading a passage like this, I find it hard not to conclude that Digges has abdicated her independent judgment.

Were Senator Clinton to abdicate her Senate seat to concentrate on the presidency, it would simply reinforce that current perception.

GLADSTONE, N.J. — When Lorena Ochoa abdicated her throne last month and retired from the L.P.G.A. Tour at 28, she shifted the spotlight toward a gifted group of players.