"The time has now come for me to relinquish the responsibilities of this position and return to laboratory science as part of my commitment to the search for a safe and effective HIV vaccine," wrote Paul in a "dear colleague" letter that will be widely distributed tomorrow.
His reasoning is twofold: It will prevent future battles among the siblings over holdings and allow him to relinquish the responsibilities of royalty as he begins the "unburdened crawl toward death".
In fact, Novilla seems scarcely to exist, a sketchily imagined, fictitious place that might well be a bare, Beckett stage on which actors are reading scripts they don't fully understand, at the bequest of a director who remains elusive and seems to have relinquished the very responsibility of direction.
Hearn refused to relinquish the microphone.
Watch and you will relinquish the Crystal.
In 1975, as a result of challenges by the American Society of Anaesthesiology (ASA) to the U.S. Office of Education, the AANA relinquished these responsibilities to five independent Councils.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants, for example, are awarded to institutions, not individuals, so when investigators decide to move, they must ask the old institution to relinquish responsibility for the project; the future institution must submit a new application.
This lets them relinquish much of the responsibility for managing and funding the institutions while giving museums more freedom to raise money from other sources.Yet councils should heed the experience of the Wedgwood Museum in Stoke-on-Trent.
Mr. Abdullah, 69, said he will meet Malaysia's king, the constitutional monarch, on Thursday to convey "my intention to relinquish my responsibility as the prime minister".
On Thursday, Mr. Boehner seemed eager to relinquish responsibility for the fight, at least briefly, telling reporters that after the House votes on Friday, "This fight will move over to the Senate, where it belongs".
