Sentence examples for act of abdication from inspiring English sources

It seemed like an act of abdication.

The exhibition of her suffering is both an act of abdication and an unforgettable attack.

His flight from approaching British troops was described in the local press, somewhat unfairly, as a cowardly act of abdication.

The act of abdication was signed in the Royal Palace on Dam Square in central Amsterdam, which is full of orange-clad crowds, many wearing inflatable orange crowns.

Three historical documents signed at the château were the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV (1685); the concordat between France and Rome (1814); and (in the same year) Napoleon's act of abdication.

To-day the Act of Abdication will be passed by both Houses of Parliament, and to-night King Edward will give it the royal assent - his last act as King.

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

The only voluntary abdication, that of Edward VIII, had to be authorised by a special Act of Parliament, His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936.

The following day, it was given legislative form by special Act of Parliament: His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936.

Some of the men later said that they felt this was an act of cowardice, an abdication.

The next day, the last act of his reign was the royal assent to His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936.