Sentence examples for about to abdicate from inspiring English sources

They caught me right at the time when I was about to abdicate.

But, as a member of the ancien régime, the world No2 is not about to abdicate just yet.

This year's Dutch national holiday celebrations had been marred by rumours that Queen Beatrix was about to abdicate to make way for her son.

Finally, as politicians in other states question New Hampshire's oversized influence in the political process, most voters said they were not about to abdicate their position -- and pointed to the events taking place outside their windows in explaining why.

Indeed, no one would ever revile this property with the ferocity of Helen Rutledge, who was not about to abdicate its deed to anyone for whom her ultimate foe, her bete noire, her personal nemesis, was merely an affordable bottom rung on the UK's most worn-out metaphor.

Summoned to see the home secretary, Grant was told there was no truth to his report that the king was about to abdicate and that if the news had reached South Africa and then been telegraphed back to Britain, the reaction might have been "of a most serious character".

Professional athletes have over the years been about as inclined to abdicate their positions of power and prestige as have Middle Eastern dictators.

Artabanus III, king of Media Atropatene, revolted and entered the Parthian capital at Ctesiphon in Mesopotamia about ad 12. Vonones fled to Armenia, where he secured the Armenian throne, but because of pressure from Artabanus he was forced to abdicate about ad 15.

The wall plus the dome are enabling Israel's leaders to abdicate their responsibility for thinking creatively about a resolution of its own majority-minority problem with the Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Edward II is forced to abdicate.

Napoleon was forced to abdicate.