Sentence examples for would abdicate from inspiring English sources

The distraught queen privately told the government she would abdicate.

But last April, the king announced that he would abdicate by the end of this year.

I'd like to find an entrepreneur who would abdicate strategy to another team.

The king would abdicate and his son, Prince Felipe, would be raised to the throne.

He handed his legislative powers over to Henri in 1998, and last year said he would abdicate.

Speculation about whether Edward would abdicate the crown reached its peak after Simpson filed for divorce from her second husband.

The Queen then mimics her mother's gesture before being joined by her uncle, who would later abdicate in 1936.

He declared them null and void, saying the court would not abdicate "its great responsibility to guarantee that its doors remain open to these detainees".

The queen's friends and relatives offered insights into her thinking, insisting in interviews that she would never abdicate, as her uncle, Edward VIII, did in 1936.

But who could have expected that this indomitable personality and brilliant musician, having reached what he seems to regard as the pinnacle of his long career, would simply abdicate any leadership role, civic or artistic, for himself and for the orchestra in New York musical life?

The future king, who would later abdicate to marry Wallis Simpson, was on a private, three-day surfing trip to the Pacific Ocean island with Earl Mountbatten, also pictured in the water, although the future admiral of the fleet struggled to get to his feet.