Примери за abdicated

• Not only were the violators not punished, but local officials stopped convening meetings or demanding compulsory labour, as though they had abdicated their authority.

• On the contrary, he had let himself be prevailed upon to abandon his kingdom without a government and had thus abdicated the throne.

• The point is that government has a responsibility to decide which cannot be abdicated by deference to a belief in the inevitability of market forces.

• As they condescended (or abdicated their distinction), visitors were required to act like the people they were trying to help.

• They thus abdicated their monopoly on leadership.

• Condescension originally denoted an act whereby an authority figure temporarily abdicated the privileges of his or her position for the benefit of a dependant.

• Morality as such was abdicated in favour of an immutable 'cosmic process'.

• If he abdicated from his position of wanting the compulsory powers, a great deal of the difficulty would go.

• We realise that free public opinion has abdicated its position in this country.

• Has he abdicated all responsibility for public sector housing?

• They have abdicated their responsibility in the way in which they have sought to tackle these problems.

• They have abdicated any further responsibility for the evolution of these arrangements.

• The company abdicated its responsibility by going into liquidation and trading under another name.

• Any government which fail to act in that capacity have abdicated a primary responsibility.

• He has abdicated his responsibilities and he should resign.