Sentence examples for had abdicated from from inspiring English sources
At the time, Sekeletu, who was rumoured to be illegitimate and the half-brother of a woman who had abdicated from the throne, was struggling to assert his authority in a highly militaristic state that valued valour in battle – which he had not proven because of his age – above royal blood.
It was almost if this "politics of naiveté and adolescence", as Dr Visvanathan calls Mr Gandhi's politics, had abdicated from its responsibility of shoring up bipartisan secular support against the poison of communalism, and left it to the people to fend for themselves.
(The psychotic is someone whose ego has abdicated from this responsibility — as it does nightly in normal people in the psychosis known as dreaming).
He also quoted off the record briefings from international regulators expressing "shock and dismay that Ireland had abdicated its responsibilities for short-term advantage".
It was like summer had abdicated.
The bourgeoisie had abdicated its responsibility.
(Four days earlier Napoleon had abdicated).
He had abdicated his leadership role.
And what if he had abdicated in his turn?
