Eksempler på abdication

• Yet these are precisely the kinds of reactions that promote abdication of control and hope on the part of those suffering from mental disorder.

• The results could be abdication of personal responsibility and an undermining of traditional religious morality.

• It is only by becoming an official of the state that such an abdication of responsibility is justifiable.

• The very nation he had served now betrayed him; he wavered between revenge, abdication and denial.

• The copious pleasures on offer there are too artificial, too flagrantly polymorphous to allow the subject his conventional abdication of the self.

• The emergence of a culture of compromise should not be misinterpreted as an abdication of the role of congress as a comptroller of executive ambitions.

• His abdication undermined the framework of military unity.

• While this characterization may have been apt in some instances, intimidation rather than ideological orientation was responsible for many of the abdications.