Sentence examples for relinquished much of from inspiring English sources

Later he relinquished much of his inheritance, resigned his vicariate, and went to Rome (1592), where he laboured for the education of poor children.

The late King Birendra of Nepal stood aside and relinquished much of his immense political power when a democracy movement arose more than a decade ago.

It was a busy day for pope, who at 83 suffers from Parkinson's disease and has relinquished much of his mobility to a mechanized throne.

With their increased preference for market-oriented enterprise, governments have relinquished much of their service-provision role in favour of managing networks of subcontractors, including both for-profit and nonprofit firms.

In these modern times, the 60-year-old bachelor king has divested himself of his business interests and relinquished much of his power as absolute ruler in favour of a more representative, elected parliament in the run-up to his own coronation.

Though Beaumont has relinquished much of his power since the advent of democracy in 2008 – until then he was the only Sarkee allowed to breed dogs or keep doves and pigeons and received cash (a so-called "treizieme") from every house sale – he still has the power to veto legislation by sending it back to Chief Pleas for amendments and can appoint the island's judge.

Dr. Resch's idea is to streamline the process by relinquishing much of the supervision to the institution's four schools: aviation, business, education and arts and sciences.

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.

But India's history is quite different from Japan's, and even if India is eager to reap the benefits of a closer relationship with the U.S., it is unlikely to relinquish much of its zealously guarded independence, or sacrifice other important relationships it enjoys with Russia and China, not to mention Brazil or even Cuba and Iran.

In fact, they trust Washington so much that they're willing to relinquish much of their own oversight of coal mine safety to the feds.

Even baboons -- notoriously aggressive and competitive primates -- relinquish much of their competitive behavior if there is a consistent and stable food source available.