Sentence examples for to abdication from inspiring English sources

Such abnegation would be akin to abdication.

He is a Brechtian hero, a man who says no to everything: no to governing, no to rationality, no to getting rid of his lover, no to his wife (he spits on her) and no to abdication.

Other commentators discussed the film's representation of historical detail, especially the reversal of Winston Churchill's opposition to abdication.

Therefore, it was imperative to;  Define the scope of task shifting i.e. health services that could and not be provided by specific cadres of health workers so that they do not move away from delegation to abdication.

The King's desire to marry a woman who had two living ex-husbands threatened to cause a constitutional crisis in the United Kingdom and the Dominions, and ultimately led to his abdication in December 1936 to marry "the woman I love".

Chris Hicks, a consultant to unions on student debt issues, argues that the Education Department's refusal to use its vast authority to penalize schools that violate state or federal rules amounts to an abdication of its responsibility to protect students and the integrity of the federal student aid program.

Widespread acceptance of the Obama administration's contrived narrative of what is happening in the Middle East, of American actions, and of its dealings with supposedly allies who work at cross-purposes to America's declared aims speaks to an abdication of intellectual responsibility and a betrayal of their pledge to serve by telling truth to power.

They sit with the serene and knowing looks of people who believe that they can and will have a deep spiritual experience today that there's something to the notion of other worlds and beings beyond the comprehension of science, to the abdication of control and surrender to mysterious forces.

They sit with the serene and knowing looks of people who believe that they can and will have a deep spiritual experience today – that there's something to the notion of other worlds and beings beyond the comprehension of science, to the abdication of control and surrender to mysterious forces.

We must ask whether it is the result of a massive shift in the psychology of our nation that some argue grew out of the excesses of the 1960's, a shift from self-reliance to indulgence and dependence, from caring to self-indulgence, from public accountability to public abdication and chaos".

The sense one received from Baltimore was that it had just dug in its heels and felt requests to share were often tantamount to some abdication of its independence".