Sentence examples for with abdication from inspiring English sources

Congress, while it has certainly obstructed Obama's domestic agenda, now defers to him on many matters of national security — and, especially, surveillance — to a degree that flirts with abdication.

Congress, while it has certainly obstructed Obama's domestic agenda, now defers to him on many matters of national security—and, especially, surveillance to a degree that flirts with abdication.

With the abdication of Louis-Philippe in February 1848, they went to England.

The big-money era in TV news was, in fact, inaugurated with his abdication as anchor.

With the abdication of the anti-unionist patriarch Joseph I, Becchus was named to the office in May 1275.

With the abdication of his father (March 1848), Maximilian succeeded to the throne at a time of revolutionary fervour throughout Germany.

Meanwhile, Sir Hallam Ed Stoppardd), preoccupied with the abdication of Edward VIII, tries to buy a reprieve from the press by hosting a dinner for the Duke of Kent Blake Ritsonn).

The CNT and the FAI, which remained clandestine organizations under the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera, emerged into the open with the abdication of King Alfonso XIII in 1931.

The rule of the Wittelsbach dynasty finally ended with the abdication of Louis III in November 1918, and, in the aftermath of World War I, Munich became a hotbed of right-wing political ferment.

Last week I was in the Netherlands, visiting friends and hoping to take in some of the street theater and pageantry that went along with the abdication of Queen Beatrix and the elevation of her oldest son, the new King Willem-Alexander.

Princess Margaret Rose was born on Aug. 21, 1930, at Glamis, Scotland, the second daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, six years before her father became King George VI with the abdication of his brother, Edward VIII.