Sentence examples for consider relinquishing from inspiring English sources

Borough President Adolfo Carrión Jr., of the Bronx, was the only borough president to consider relinquishing his own power.

This has not stopped reporters from wondering, after every recent disappointing season, whether Jones might consider relinquishing his role as general manager.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 — Senator Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that the Bush-Cheney administration had engaged in a "power grab" and that she would consider relinquishing some of that executive power if she followed it into the White House.

In a series of tweets, the president inaccurately stated that Mr. Kim had "agreed to denuclearization". In fact, North Korea said it would consider relinquishing its nuclear weapons and was ending testing.

As the backstop provisions show, the EU would not for a moment consider relinquishing that weapon unless it was sure that the UK would not breach state aid rules; and to be sure it will require cast-iron and enforceable treaty commitments binding the UK to the EU state aid regime.

As the nation's demand for water grows, it becomes harder to consider relinquishing control of water resources or sharing water in the framework of a peace treaty.

Last week, Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan of South Korea denounced what he called the North's "unrealistic" demand that the United States negotiate a peace treaty before the North considers relinquishing its nuclear weapons.

ALBANY — The Cuomo administration is strongly considering relinquishing some of the state's oversight and monitoring responsibilities over vulnerable populations, and giving that power to a nonprofit advocacy group, a top administration official said Monday.

It was as though Hart had strayed into 19th-century New York: then Opffer Senior indicated that he was considering relinquishing his room at the back of the house and Hart discovered that for only $8 a week he might be able to rent a room which would give him a prospect not of history but of myth.

As of October 2014, Caltrans was considering relinquishing the part of SR 54 from the SR 94 junction up to the El Cajon city limits to the County of San Diego.

Apart from these allegations, Reibey's wife's health had been declining, his property had been declining in value, and he wrote that he had been considering relinquishing the Archdeaconship for a while.