Sentence examples for he would abdicate from inspiring English sources

But last April, the king announced that he would abdicate by the end of this year.

He handed his legislative powers over to Henri in 1998, and last year said he would abdicate.

Two years later the aged bey, Muḥammad al-Nāṣir, requested that the program of the Destour be adopted or he would abdicate.

Benedict gave his allegiance to Clement and, upon Clement's death, was elected to succeed him by the cardinals supporting Avignon, with the understanding that he would abdicate voluntarily if that would help to end the division in the church.

Belgium's 79-year-old King Albert has announced that he would abdicate in favour of his son, Prince Philippe, in a surprise address to the nation that comes weeks after a woman claiming to be his daughter launched court proceedings to prove her paternity.

Edward informed Baldwin that he would abdicate if he could not marry Simpson.

The distraught queen privately told the government she would abdicate.

THE HAGUE — Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands announced on Monday that she would abdicate on April 30 in favor of her son, the Prince of Orange, Willem-Alexander.

"It was not a foregone conclusion that Napoleon would abdicate, or that he would die in exile," says Dancoisne-Martineau. "For his first three years on the island, he was expecting to return.

The king would abdicate and his son, Prince Felipe, would be raised to the throne.

I'd like to find an entrepreneur who would abdicate strategy to another team.