Sentence examples for hand over someone from inspiring English sources

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If found guilty, Mr O'Dwyer could face up to ten years in an American prison.Yet Britain's government cannot hand over someone it would dearly love to get rid of: a radical Islamist cleric known as Abu Qatada, once alleged to be Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe.

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Japan protested to North Korea and threatened to cut off food aid after North Korea handed over someone else's remains in an effort to prove that an abducted Japanese woman had died.

Expect early calls in 2014 for the woefully out-of-touch old geezer to hand over to someone younger.

"Now I feel the time has come to hand over to someone else to take up the challenge and for me to seek new challenges and opportunities elsewhere".

Some of them cling to the hope that Corbyn privately sees himself as a stop-gap leader, ready to hand over to someone else before the 2020 election.

The ex-Tory MP and Sports minister had been in charge of BOA since 2005 with the express mandate of overhauling it in the run-up to London 2012 but felt it was time to hand over to someone new.

But I will say that if he is unable to translate discontent into language that is respectful, however harsh it may be, then he should perhaps hand over to someone who can".

Would he step down in 2017 or the year before the 2020 election, given even he would not presume to run and hand over to someone else? Would he endorse a successor or stay above the fray?

It can be a sign that it has achieved as much as it can, or that the trustees have recognised their limits and want to hand over to someone else.

You can always think of another two or three years you can do but it's time to hand over to someone who can take the next few years forward".

(Side note: I've owned two businesses and have never trusted the books to anyone other than me, my husband, my father -- who has a background in bookkeeping and accounting -- and my C.P.A. It is the last part of the business I would hand over to someone who is less than qualified).

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