Sentence examples for cannot relinquish from inspiring English sources

"The court cannot relinquish that determination to an expert witness".

As Leach says, when we experience nature directly, "we are fastened with desire: we cannot relinquish butterflies and return to uninterrupted road".

The Patriarchate of Constantinople, while declining to comment on the proposal, has strenuously resisted previous proposals to incorporate its seminary into the theological faculty of a state university, arguing that it cannot relinquish control over its training.

On the West Bank, Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has gone backwards: he has said that Israel cannot relinquish security control of the West Bank for fear of Islamist attack.

Netanyahu's argument, and that of those to his right as well, is that Israel cannot relinquish the "strategic depth" provided by the West Bank when the "neighborhood" is either in flames (Syria), unstable (Jordan, Egypt), or hostile (take your pick).

But, a dreamer in pursuit of a dream, she cannot relinquish her roots, despite the hard work and scant financial remuneration, and she still takes on parts farther from the mainstream, in films like Lynn Hershman Leeson's upcoming "Teknolust," in which she plays three clones who must drain men of their sperm in order to survive.

The Times's problem is that it cannot quite relinquish the notion that it is the top people's paper.

That ruling recognized that many prisoners cannot knowingly relinquish their right to counsel unless a lawyer helps them understand the protections they are giving up and the jeopardy they face.

Best for: those who cannot quite relinquish everything.

It cannot be relinquished, Arab officials have said, without stirring the wrath of Muslim militants in the region and Muslims all over the world.

This holds at least for as long as the sovereign ensures their protection, as Hobbes believes that the natural right to self-preservation cannot be relinquished (Leviathan, chapter 21).