Sentence examples for cede your from inspiring English sources

They say in America to me what's the solution to all this, I say cede your government to Denmark.

You only get to lock the back door to your house if you cede your sitting room to someone who is holding a gun to your head – and you must pay his rent.

To admit to ignorance, uncertainty or ambivalence is to cede your place on the masthead, your slot on the program, and allow all the coveted eyeballs to turn instead to the next hack who's more than happy to sell them all the answers.

But it is being hijacked not only to shut down the discussion, but also to use it to make a broader point and blow a dog whistle warning against the creeping influence of PC culture and how it is forcing you to cede your space.

You can be forceful or light-hearted in your delivery, but the goal is not to cede your power by answering an unwanted question or submitting to someone else's framing of the interaction, which is especially difficult to resist when you're caught off-guard.

It's sensual without having to cede your personality or physicality to some larger fantasy, which high fashion too often requires.

Does taking support for those children, in the form of the Children's Health Insurance Program, Head Start or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, mean you have you ceded your place as mother or father to the collective?

So there are some actions that a President has to take a deep breath, believe you're right because you've done the groundwork, asked the hard questions — you haven't been surrounded by yes-people who have basically done your bidding, or ceded your authority to your Vice-President or others who had a different agenda that they were promoting.

– Eddy Adams, expert adviser on social innovation to URBACT Sometimes ceding your leadership to others: "Not because of their role or job title, but because they're actually the best-placed to lead a particular bit of work around a larger issue.

The Obama administration is "busy in bed with Hollywood," she warns, "cheerfully ceding your rights to the MPAA and RIAA".

Yet this would seem to be a matter of ceding your autonomy to your friend, and that is surely not what they intend.