Sentence examples for could relinquish from inspiring English sources

Perhaps she could relinquish her pinnacle.

There is some speculation Hughes could relinquish the top spot and swap places with Fierravanti-Wells, but this has not been confirmed.

Mr. Kerry had dismissively raised the possibility that Syria could relinquish its chemical stockpiles if it wanted to avoid an American military response — a statement that the secretary's spokesman quickly said was only "rhetorical".

McCartney has said part of the joy of making his first two solo albums was that he could relinquish the pressure of being a Beatle and just enjoy making music.

He reassured her that she had options and pleaded with her to go to a hospital, where she would remain anonymous and could relinquish her child if she wished.

And Mr. Mubarak has continued to sound a stern uncompromising note in public, saying in an interview published during the weekend that no Arab or Muslim state could relinquish the traditional claim to Jerusalem and its holy sites.

Nonetheless, the building itself he could not relinquish.

Laurence Leamer, the author of "The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an American Family (Random House, 1994), said that after that killing, Ethel Kennedy, in particular, could not relinquish her grief.

As the critic Albert Murray first pointed out, though, what Baldwin decried in Stowe and Wright he could not relinquish in his own work.

Rather he reflected that this shoe salesman, in America attached to foreign doctrines, who could not relinquish Europe in the New World, was now, in Paris, sleeping in the Cadillac, encased in this gorgeous Fisher Body from Detroit.

I could not relinquish that kind of comfort.