Sentence examples for already abdicated from inspiring English sources

Ms. Jones is the image of earthy robustness, with her wide-legged stance and wrestler's arms; Mr. Byrne has the wan, mechanical air of a man who has already abdicated his spot among the living.

You can't simply abdicate.

Sa'ad abdicated and Sabah took over, but by the time the abdication came through Kuwait's parliament had already voted Sa'ad out of office.

Not to enter the sectarian civil war when the die is already cast is to abdicate all leverage over the eventual transitional government.

What is troubling is the extent to which developed countries, with the resources to train their own nurses, have abdicated this responsibility and chosen to "raid" nurses from countries that already have acute shortages.

"Governments have abdicated responsibility.

The queen has abdicated.

The tsar had abdicated!

Reality has abdicated.

Prajadhipok abdicated in 1935.

Parents temporarily abdicated authority.