Sentence examples for for having relinquished from inspiring English sources

And in May 1999 power passed to Mr. Obasanjo, a man much admired abroad for having relinquished power in 1979 after three years as a military ruler and viewed at home as a possible unifier of this almost impossible country.

There'll be no slacking from the league leaders, however: they'll play, as ever, with the wrath of Ferguson blowing like a mighty wind at their shorts, while City will be anxious to make amends for having relinquished their title so meekly.

For Sablikova, it was revenge over Wust, having relinquished her 3,000m title to her rival in Sochi.

Having relinquished his House seat to run for the Senate, McGovern was available for a position in the new Kennedy administration.

Having relinquished research, Juliana is now in the business of promoting a new drug she discovered for the treatment of dementia.

Another told Miliband that she had been a paid-up member of the Labour party for 15 years, but had relinquished her membership after being shunned by the men who dominated her local branch in the Manningham area of Bradford.

With their increased preference for market-oriented enterprise, governments have relinquished much of their service-provision role in favour of managing networks of subcontractors, including both for-profit and nonprofit firms.

A group of three called the Klamath Tribes agreed to give up some control of the water to regain tens of thousands of acres for timber production that they had relinquished decades earlier.

Backed by the millions of car-manufacturing giants Volkswagen, the club's owners and sponsors, Die Wölfe had assembled a star-studded squad and were looking to once again challenge for the league title they had relinquished so timidly the previous season.

And so he has relinquished his ambitions for high office and come to fight for his political survival in this community on England's blustery northeastern coast, which he has represented in the House of Commons since 1992.

The EU appears to have relinquished its ability, for example, to insist that investment and retail banking be separated.