Sentence examples for cede the role from inspiring English sources
But a little-noticed side effect is the ineptitude that afflicts parents who cede the role of the household's chief technology officer to their offspring.
(Coming up: a version of "Little Women" that explores Jo as a nonbinary character, though Hamill may cede the role, "because I present very much as a cisgender woman").
His senior aides said they were now spending much of their days fielding calls from concerned donors and other supporters asking why Mr. Obama was not challenging Mrs. Clinton more forcefully and warning that he could cede the role of the main anti-Clinton candidate to former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, who is running an aggressive campaign in Iowa.
In recent years, the board has tended either to cede the role of visionary to its superintendent, or to fight over clashing visions.
After reading the thoughtful responses from the former first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state, Marley wrote that she was inspired — and willing to cede the role of America's first female president to Clinton.
In all of this I blame, first and foremost, the American public for ceding the role of accountability to media, corporations, government and political organizations.
But the China operations of Amazon.com, eBay, Yahoo and even Google have all either lost ground or ceded the role of market leader to local rivals despite sometimes spending hundreds of millions of dollars to acquire established Chinese competitors.
David Stern, the league's commissioner for thirty years, had ceded the role to Adam Silver, his bald, bespectacled deputy and chosen successor, for whom this game was a kind of débutante ball.
For example, President Trump's endorsement of oppressive governments in Turkey and the Philippines signals that he is content to cede the U.S. role as a force for positive global change.
Centuries of sexism, they argue, mean that "even when possessing and demonstrating leadership behavior that is superior to others in the group, women leaders may sometimes prefer to cede the formal leadership role to men in the group because they, too, believe that being male or masculine is more leaderlike".
It is also not well understood how the once contradictory bill was passed into an Act despite strong opposition from Members of Parliament to cede the TFDA's roles to the Pharmacy Council [ 17].
