Sentence examples for having abdicated from inspiring English sources
And with the national G.O.P. having abdicated any responsibility for making things work, it's only natural that individual senators should feel free to take the nation hostage until they get their pet projects funded.
Rushdie himself went on to accuse American writers, much to Saul Bellow's exasperation, of having "abdicated the task of taking on the subject of America's immense power in the world".
In June 1829, however, a regency on behalf of Maria da Glória was established in Terceira, and in 1831 Pedro, having abdicated the Brazilian throne, went to Europe and began to raise money and an army for the conquest of Portugal.
Having abdicated our responsibilities as citizens, we have ceded power to bureaucrats and government officials who, with our tacit approval, continue to dismantle our basic rights while providing an illusion of safety and security.
Having failed to prevent a civil war in Syria, having abdicated its responsibility to protect the Syrian people from crimes against humanity, the very least the UN Security Council can do now is ensure that one way or another Assad and his generals eventually find their way to The Hague.
"Governments have abdicated responsibility.
We've abdicated our responsibility".
(Four days earlier Napoleon had abdicated).
