Now, with the departure of Mr. Hammersley, Mr. Bernardin will become the chief executive of the office and relinquish his other titles.
Instead, he simply indicated that he had indeed signed an executive order when he took office that relinquishes power to Mr. Shaw, the deputy mayor for operations, any time Mr. Bloomberg leaves the city.
No doubt citizens subject to the coercive authority of a government have a moral right to political rights, e.g. a right to vote and to stand for political office; they relinquish a degree of their individual autonomy in favour of a degree of jointly held autonomy (as well as (at least) protection of their human rights, and law and order).
Mr. Carroll will add duties for worldwide business development and big clients like Absolut, Adidas and Masterfoods; retain oversight of the agency's Canadian and San Francisco offices; and relinquish oversight of the New York and Playa del Rey, Calif., offices, which will report to Jean-Marie Dru, president and chief executive.
Both Services reached their post-war low point in the spring of 1933, as President Hoover relinquished office.
One senior returning officer said voters had contacted his office seeking to relinquish their postal votes and regain their right to vote at a polling station.
Whatever happens, Mr Estrada is not going to relinquish office.
Jump forward to 2017, when the next president will hope to relinquish office.
These backwoodsmen whisper in the president's ear that if he relinquishes office he will be hauled before the International Criminal Court.
Democracy has been corroded by the army's continuing power, as well as by Mr Museveni's refusal to relinquish office.
If Netanyahu is indicted, it is almost certain that his rivals or civil society organizations will file legal petitions calling on him to relinquish office on the basis of those previous rulings, said Guy Lurie, a researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute.
