Sentence examples for relinquished her position from inspiring English sources

She relinquished her position as chairman of the company a day later.

She relinquished her position at that company, a major supplier to Wal-Mart, in May 2007, after her husband criticized Wal-Mart's labor practices.

Bristow had said she would quit at the end of the season, but has relinquished her position with immediate effect.

She did not easily relinquish her position, indeed her creation of herself, as a true star.

Conservative Democrats in the House of Representatives — whose election in 2006 and 2008 enabled Nancy Pelosi to preside over a supermajority (there are 255 Democrats and 178 Republicans) — increasingly question whether she should relinquish her position as speaker.

Few retirements from the game have come as quite such a shock as Henin's announcement 10 days ago that she was leaving tennis and relinquishing her position as world number one.

He makes another go at it and she relinquishes her position gracefully.

She's long faced pressure from existing Democrats in her caucus ― such as Tim Ryan of Ohio, Seth Moulton of Massachusetts and Jim Cooper of Tennessee ― to relinquish her position as the No. 1 Democrat in the House.

The competition appears to have only emboldened Pelosi, a tough-as-ever survivor who shows no signs of relinquishing her position as one of the most powerful Democrats in the country.

Which explains why someone as driven as Universal Pictures Chairwoman Stacey Snider would relinquish her powerful position as head of one of Hollywood's six major studios to run a small movie production label for a lot less money.

So she relinquishes her dominant position, gets off the horse, and stands at the same level with the horse, holding the reign.