Sentence examples for decided to abdicate as from inspiring English sources
The Queen had to mediate between her brothers in 1555, when Charles decided to abdicate as emperor and leave the government of the Netherlands to his son Philip, despite Ferdinand's objections.
She quotes the wisdom -- conventional and self-evident -- of New York Times military correspondent Hanson Baldwin, who wrote in 1966 that U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam would bring "political, psychological and military catastrophe," signaling that the United States "had decided to abdicate as a great power".
I recently mailed ten complaints on behalf of eight different survivors to the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, which has already informed me it has decided to abdicate it's duties, as it did in the Pelletier case, rather than investigate.
In 2004 King Sihanouk decided to abdicate, and Prince Norodom Sihamoni was selected to succeed him.
Reza Shah then decided to abdicate, to allow his son and heir, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, to adopt a policy appropriate to the new situation, and to preserve his dynasty.
News of the new link to the Bronx was overshadowed by a surprising announcement from England: King Edward VIII had decided to abdicate.
"It's an EU which has decided to abdicate from its role of protecting the internal market and protecting its citizens," he said.
Suffolk County - Assembly District 3: Democratic incumbent Patricia Eddington decided to abdicate her assembly seat to run and win election for Brookhaven Town Clerk (State Assembly to town clerk?).
The closest that the progressive movement came to realizing this strategy was of course in 1968, when Lyndon Johnson decided to abdicate in the face of mass protest.
It would be the cautious move of a relatively elderly society deciding to abdicate from any major global role.
