Sentence examples for almost relinquished from inspiring English sources

Something was almost said, almost acknowledged, admitted, possibly almost relinquished.

It was a lead they almost relinquished, until Iverson, again, soothed the pain.

The late Professor Kuhn contended, even more assertively, that older scientists almost never relinquish a theoretical frame, but are, thankfully, eventually replaced by a younger generation that has smaller intellectual investments in the status quo.

This is why it's always perilous to endow government actors with additional powers; they will almost never relinquish them, and these powers will likely only expand as bureaucracies and political interests become entrenched.

Some parents of children with serious illness have relinquished almost everything else to focus on caring for their sick child.

Most had relinquished their scholarships.

By the early 1990s, the expensive hunt for oil in Arctic seas had largely failed and almost all leases were relinquished.

At that point, reporters enter the Bubble, where they relinquish almost all autonomy.

In fact, almost half of all dogs relinquished to shelters have at least one behavior problem - aggression and destructiveness are among the most common.

Customers, apparently, remain jittery about relinquishing control.

It relinquished hundreds of Afghan detainees, and almost all of the detention facility, to Afghan control last year.