Sentence examples for refused to relinquish from inspiring English sources

Mesut Yilmaz, leader of the centre-right Motherland party, has refused to relinquish control over privatisation.

Col. Mohamed Bacar refused to relinquish his presidency when his term of office expired in April.

But Cruz took over the lectern and refused to relinquish it.

The government had offered 20percentt of the telecommunications company and refused to relinquish control.

In the negotiations with Cathay Pacific, he refused to relinquish control, which ultimately doomed the talks.

If he offered a girl a ride, Nina refused to relinquish the passenger seat.

In Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo refused to relinquish the presidency in 2010 after losing an election; mass atrocities followed.

Nevertheless, saying that his ouster reeked of Stalinism, Fini refused to relinquish his leadership position in the lower house.

Because the military regime refused to relinquish power, however, Win Tin and other opposition leaders remained in prison.

He refused to relinquish control of his work, and so denied his collaborator Steve Wozniak his due recognition.

"That right there?" the psychiatrist asked, gesturing at the cardboard box, which the madman had refused to relinquish.