The United States backs Mr. Karzai, but it can't relinquish its alliances with the enemies of all he stands for.
But for the sake of propriety, "Girls," set in rural Yorkshire, can't relinquish its embrace of convention, or else Chris would have nothing to do.
Cannon and his wife are being tormented by his evil twin, John (rotten teeth, terrified of dentists), a rich and ruthless sadist who "can't relinquish or respect either people or things".
Yet he can't relinquish the humour and hilarity because it's precisely that vision that marks the two brothers out from the rest of the world, and binds them inextricably together, for as Barry Humphries reminds the author, the best jokes are often understood by only one other person.
I guess it was only a matter of time before the cartoonish cultural image of fully immersed mommies would graduate to helicopter nightmares who can't relinquish the claws in their kids, let alone figure out how to live their own lives.
According to Best, many bosses want nothing more than a do-it-all assistant but then find they can't relinquish the control they always had without an assistant even if it wasn't very good control.
