Sentence examples for relinquish a degree from inspiring English sources

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).

They have to relinquish a degree of control to the professionals involved in their child's care.

Or they can work with their partners to use resources as effectively as possible, even if this means relinquishing a degree of sovereignty.

Wilder's dead, and you relinquish a certain degree of privacy by dying (or so thought Voltaire: "To the dead we owe only the truth").

If Pakistan were willing to relinquish a certain degree of control and allow meetings to take place outside of Pakistan, in say China or Qatar, then there's a pretty good chance that the political office of the Taliban would participate.

She was getting tennis instruction, but he had relinquished a significant degree of control at a crucial point of her emotional development.

Such a concert, incongruously, could not be democratic in operation unless the United States suddenly relinquished a substantial degree of its sovereignty.

In applying the abuse of discretion standard of review to the boards' actions, the trial court relinquished an improper degree of its own authority to the boards.

On the other hand, regional politicians are ready to relinquish some degree of autonomy in the face of a common military threat or opportunity.

Calder's forms have relinquished a certain self-consciousness".

Most women find relinquishing a child for adoption emotionally unacceptable.