Sentence examples for it has forfeited from inspiring English sources

Suspending the sovereignty of an independent nation is a radical idea -- in effect, a decree that the state has so badly squandered authority over its inhabitants that it has forfeited the otherwise inalienable right to govern itself.

COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY--Announced it has forfeited its men's tennis and softball victories from spring 2003 after self-reporting to the NCAA a secondary violation in each sport.

To the extent that we discover it to be otherwise we have a reason for taking some action either to try to bring about a change in the object of our loyalty (what Albert Hirschman calls giving voice) or to abandon it (Hirschman's exit option) on the ground that it has forfeited its claim to our loyalty.

Hezbollah's rivals argue that it has forfeited that right by unilaterally sending fighters not to Israel but to Syria to battle an uprising that many Lebanese support.

But by rocking the boat, and upsetting one of the traditional backers of European integration, the Catholic church, it has forfeited the benefits of quiet obscurity.

Before the Gulf war, Iraq was Turkey's second-largest trading partner; Turkey says it has forfeited over $40 billion in trade because of the UN's continuing sanctions against Iraq.

On Wednesday, in remarks that will be construed as directed at the US, he said that the EU had to regain the "digital sovereignty" it had forfeited and reassert its digital independence.

It didn't matter that I had forfeited that chance to hear Mary J. Blige.

"They have earned this right and Gaddafi has forfeited it by waging war on his own people".

The Conservatives staunchly defend it, arguing that any Canadian who commits terrorism has forfeited their right to be one.

Most vital of all are his binoculars; Hallam has forfeited his place in the world for a chance to spy on it.