Sentence examples for having to abdicate from inspiring English sources

With some difficulty, Strutt managed to arrange a train to Switzerland, enabling the Emperor to leave the country with dignity without having to abdicate.

On the firmer ground of the referendum, he has in effect organized a "national unity" government without having to abdicate leadership or abandon principles.

Summer almost had to abdicate when she didn't graduate on time with her high-school class.

If so, he would have to abdicate – as Baudouin of Belgium did for a day rather than ratify abortion.

When the party finally had to abdicate power, in 1990, he accepted it without bitterness – and made his apology for martial law and past Communist regime excesses.

If they can, situations will inevitably arise one after another in which the Government will either have to abdicate or to shoot with all the repercussions of shooting, at home and abroad.

RIM will have to abdicate their "prosumer" segment — not that there's much to abdicate.

He named a few: Rex Tillerson, chairman of Exxon Mobil, Drayton McClain, owner of Major League Baseball's Houston Astros; Secretary of Defense Bob Gates who had to abdicate his role on the BSA Board to serve the country–and Jim Rohr, PNC Bank's chief executive and one of Mazzuca's closest friends.

But after Austria and Germany lost World War I, the Austria-Hungarian Empire was dismantled, Charles I had to abdicate, and Austria went on to become a republic.

Not only did Saddam have to allow the inspectors in, which he had done, and disarm, which he was doing in the few cases where anything was found, now, he had to abdicate as well.

Mr. Edson agreed that encouraging participation did not have to mean abdicating curatorial control.