Sentence examples for chose to abdicate from inspiring English sources
"The agency chose to abdicate its duty," he said of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
But when his brother David, who was crowned as Edward VIII, chose to abdicate to marry Wallis Simpson, Bertie was thrust into the spotlight.
Rather than abandon his plans to marry Simpson, he chose to abdicate in favour of Albert, who reluctantly became King in his place on 11 December 1936 under the regnal name of George VI.
If we choose to abdicate our leadership, consequences are dire.
What is most frightening, however, is that both private and public media have chosen to abdicate their duty to question the state's narrative and hold officials to account.
Matthiessen is scrupulous in his endeavour, mediated through Olin, to map the complex inheritance of the camps, resisting attempts to frame the "huge cold crimes" which saturate the landscape; yet ultimately both author and protagonist choose to abdicate their quest for a deeper intellectual response in pursuit of more consoling narratives: family, love, religion.
This led some barbarian cultures simply choosing to abdicate power to Alexander in order to avoid certain death.
Societies can add to the list of basic capabilities but cannot take capabilities away from the list, meaning that societies cannot choose to abdicate from supporting some capabilities.
After much contemplation, she chose not to abdicate.
On this occasion, politicians at the New York ceremonies recalling the attack abdicated that responsibility, choosing to recite famous words from the past, from the Gettysburg Address, the Declaration of Independence and Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1941 Four Freedoms speech, instead of writing new ones of their own.
