Sentence examples for relinquishes from inspiring English sources

I would favour more edge, a touch of House of Cards or Mad Men – though there is an exquisite gesture in that direction: the trophy wife of a boss, Lisa (Rosamund Pike) relinquishes her poise, momentarily, and seeks affinity with Rita O'Grady, the strike leader.

America scores poorly because of the health insurers' rule that they pay for palliative care only if a patient relinquishes curative treatments.In this section A tide turns Shifting up a gear Grim reapings ReprintsThe report combines hard statistics such as life expectancy and health-care spending as a share of GDP with weighted assessments of other indicators.

Perry is willing to pay $1.3 billion to raise its stake from roughly 5% to 30%, on the condition that NEC relinquishes control of the chipmaker's board.

This would give him a platform from which to remain the ultimate arbiter of Chinese politics even after he relinquishes the presidency as he is constitutionally obliged to do in 2003.

A spokesman for the prime minister called it "meaningless" and reiterated Mr Sharon's own oft-stated position that Palestinian reform can only amount to something if Mr Arafat relinquishes the reins of power.

WHEN a company's chairman and chief executive relinquishes the latter title, he normally steps back to concentrate on handling the board and making lots of dinner-circuit speeches.

The Northern Irish cling to their accord despite renewed violence; Mrs Kincaid relinquishes her own vendetta, and will become the turkey farmer's wife.Piercingly sympathetic with the most socially negligible passer-by, William Trevor rarely fires a line off-target, while forever keeping his own head beneath the parapet.

These backwoodsmen whisper in the president's ear that if he relinquishes office he will be hauled before the International Criminal Court.

It is understood that Dubai International Capital will lose hundreds of millions of pounds as it relinquishes control.

Now, his other VPs are said to be campaigning to take the reins when, or if, he relinquishes power.

The superiority of our unique race relinquishes any moral obligation and grants us the right to massacre on this scale.