Sentence examples for might abdicate from inspiring English sources

However, there is no serious sign the erratic leader might abdicate.

King Sihanouk has put the issue of succession on the agenda in recent months by hinting, and then denying, that he might abdicate.

When Prince Hans Adam asked for more constitutional powers in 2003, he warned that if he did not get them, he might abdicate and move to Austria, presumably taking his multi-billion-dollar enterprise with him.

If you make such a declaration as an election contender, you might be abdicating your "governing responsibilities in a period of incredibly rapid change and financial stress," as Thomas L. Friedman wrote.

If you make such a declaration as an election contender, you might be abdicating your "governing responsibilities in a period of incredibly rapid change and financial stress," as Thomas Friedman has written, but if you do so as the star or creator of a forthcoming fantasy-themed work, you might just be participating in Comic-Con International, which wrapped up in San Diego over the weekend.

No wonder that his mother's vaguely liberal principles failed to make any impression.William was so incompetent that he might well have been forced to abdicate had he been emperor in fact as well as name.

But the guilty parent in me couldn't help but worry -- might this just another way for us to abdicate responsibility, to plonk our kids in front of a screen and tell ourselves that were doing our job?

Some, however, saw the change as shifting responsibility for treatment to the lay health worker and patient – and noted that this did not absolve the health system from responsibility: '… we can allow community people to help us take responsibility for our patients although it doesn't absolve or abdicate any responsibility that facility staff might have …' (policy maker 2).

But we can't abdicate our responsibility as parents – no matter how square or self-righteous it might make us seem – and hiding our flaws or those of others, sends the wrong message to our kids.

I shan't seek to abdicate too much responsibility for this; but the publishing industry doesn't help – and I think it might just be going a bit crazy.

Edward II is forced to abdicate.