Sentence examples for yield power to from inspiring English sources

Attracting most concern, traditionally proud France may have to yield power to Germany, whose population is half again as large.

This was another simplistic stretch, for it is highly unlikely that either the Shia, Sunnis or Kurds - whichever group ends up on top - will yield power to the small band of al-Qaida fighters in Iraq.

In contrast, the specifics of the intestinal ailment that led Fidel — who turns 82 in August — to yield power to his brother remain a state secret, and his burial place is a big mystery.

It also endorses the league's proposal for a political transition that would have Mr. Assad yield power to his deputy, establish a unity government and prepare for free elections.

This is, after all, a society on the threshold of change – the Enlightenment or the modern era – described by cultural historian Carl Schorske as "the passing of the aristocracy to the ennobled bourgeoisie [which] must learn to yield power to the new forces of democracy in the 20th century".

But economics and politics weighed heavily in their choice to abandon Cuba and the dance company, which they describe in terms similar to those often used for the country itself: financially strapped, losing its best people and controlled by an aging leader unwilling to yield power to younger generations.

Rawlings then yielded power to a freely elected civilian president, Hilla Limann, who promptly retired Rawlings from the air force.

The people of the Soviet Union were informed that Gorbachev had "stepped down" and yielded power to the ominously named State Committee for the State of Emergency because of "problems related to his health".

But when it came time for the country's presidential election in 1967, Ky yielded power to his longtime rival, Thieu, who at the time held the ceremonial post of chief of state.

That she would not certify that the military had complied was in itself a rebuke to Egypt's transitional military leaders, who have moved slowly to yield power and to lift a decades-old state of emergency, but it nonetheless allows the Egyptian military to continue to arm and equip its forces.

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday that he planned to use his first foreign trip to advance new ideas about how to persuade President Bashar al-Assad of Syria to yield power and agree to a political transition.