Sentence examples similar to relinquishment- from inspiring English sources
He quotes Napoleon's memoirs to show how deeply the Frenchman admired Washington and how utterly baffled he was by his voluntary relinquishment of power.
They can make the right gestures, but even a small relinquishment of authority produces ugly withdrawal symptoms.
Abandonment, in Anglo-American property law, the relinquishment of possession of property with an intent to terminate all ownership interests in that property.
Iroquois relinquishment of claims to additional territory west of the Ohio was disputed by adjacent tribes, however, especially the Shawnee, leading to misunderstanding and bloodshed in that area for years to come.
Film work has been a process of relinquishment.
Running for office means a relinquishment of privacy and family life that might, in general, be harder on women than men.
The difficult issue is what constitutes "forced relinquishment".
We are against exploitation, against the sale of babies, and against forced relinquishment".
Is a mother who cannot afford to feed her child forced into relinquishment by poverty?
The loss brings with it a new note, of relinquishment.
It reads at first almost as a gentle relinquishment of the character; we might have expected to see Rocky fighting to the death (as he did in early, rejected drafts of "V"), but would we have ever imagined that he could simply fade away?
