Sentence examples for fully abdicated from inspiring English sources

Once it called for Mr. Assad to step down in August 2011, the United States fully abdicated the role of a credible arbiter — the core ingredient for eventually moving civil wars toward power-sharing arrangements.

While the court retreated from its efforts to overturn New Deal legislation, Professor Barnett said, those later opinions should not be interpreted as having fully abdicated power to Congress.

However, Campbell did not fully abdicate responsibility for the dossier.

Reflecting on Seigenthaler's career, Bruce Dobie, writing in the Nashville Scene, captured his ethos perfectly: At a time when daily newspapers hadn't abdicated their agendas to focus groups and suffered enormous revenue declines, he fully exploited his position every day to shape the city's politics, its social concerns, its literary and intellectual life, its vision of itself.

At a time when daily newspapers hadn't abdicated their agendas to focus groups and suffered enormous revenue declines, he fully exploited his position every day to shape the city's politics, its social concerns, its literary and intellectual life, its vision of itself.

"Governments have abdicated responsibility.

The queen has abdicated.

The tsar had abdicated!

Reality has abdicated.

Prajadhipok abdicated in 1935.

Michael abdicated 11 days later.