Sentence examples for abdication to from inspiring English sources

The army attacked them, after senior American officials voiced their alarm at its "abdication" to the Taliban.

An entire realm of human activity will be obliterated in an act of wholesale abdication to machines.

Gates's voluntary abdication to Ballmer actually began after the release of Windows 95, the platform that firmly established Microsoft's dominance.

His pontificate was challenged by the Avignonese antipope Benedict XIII, with whom he was to have negotiated for their mutual abdication to end the Schism.

The Kingdom of Hawaii's death march ended in 1893 with Lili'uokalani's forced abdication to a provisional government, dominated by missionary descendants and haole (white or foreign) businessmen.

(As it happens, the movie skates tactfully over Queen Elizabeth's enthusiasm for appeasement, passing more or less straight from the abdication to the outbreak of war).

The constitution calls for abdications to be resolved by the passing of a parliamentary law.

His abdication points to his refusal to be simply a pope following John Paul's footsteps.

When this Convention Parliament met (January 22 , 1689, it agreed, after some debate, to treat James's flight as an abdication and to offer the Crown, with an accompanying Declaration of Rights, to William and Mary jointly.

One of the most radical manifestations of this pro-ministerial mindset of the Warring States era was the idea of abdication, according to which a good ruler may consider yielding the throne to his meritorious aide (Allan 1981; Pines 2005).

Upon delivering the abdication document to a messenger, he said: "Here you have my act of abdication, I'm returning to Europe and leaving a country that I loved very much, and still love".