Although financially hard pressed, he refused to abdicate and accept a pension from Bonaparte.
George, however, refused to abdicate, and the struggle continued until his death.
The victors demanded the king's abdication; when the army withdrew its support from Alfonso, he was forced to leave Spain (April 14 , 1931, though he refused to abdicate the throne.
His father gave up the throne in 1918 but refused to formally abdicate.
"By failing and refusing to perform his constitutional and statutory duties, Attorney General Baker has abdicated his authority and has committed an act against the state of Georgia," the resolution states.
Yet he made still more mistakes, refusing to follow the secret advice tendered to him after May 1790 by the comte de Mirabeau, abdicating his responsibilities, and acquiescing in a disastrous attempt to escape from the capital to the eastern frontier on June 21 , 1791
"Retrenching during an economic contraction is one thing," Dumenco writes, "But starving and killing off your brands one by one -- and refusing to invest adequately in the transition from print to web -- suggests that you're simply abdicating.
The anti-Fascist parties, which detested Badoglio and wanted the king to abdicate, refused to join the government until April 1944, when the Communist Party leader Palmiro Togliatti agreed to do so.
When the tsar refused to give it, Alexander abdicated on August 26 September 77), appointing a regency composed of Stambolov, Mutkurov, and Petko Karavelov.
When Parliament reassembled in January 1784, the government was at once defeated by 39 votes on a virtual motion of censure, but Pitt refused to resign, and George III was prepared to abdicate rather than again surrender to the Fox North coalition.
