How To Use Abdication In A Sentence
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Attempting to apprise the mob of Louis-Philippe's abdication, an elderly marshal on a white horse preceded by a trumpeter went unheard.
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The first abdication of Napoleon in 1814 had again allowed British tourists into Rome.
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King Hussein took the throne in 1952 following the abdication of his ailing father.
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Somers vindicated the use of the word abdication by quotations from Grotius and Brissonius, Spigelius and Bartolus.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2
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I think the war in Iraq has more to do with the media's abdication of its responsibilities than the deficiencies of our president.
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But unfortunately the expulsion of James II, which he called his "abdication," compelled him to use all reserve, to shuffle and to tergiversate, in order to avoid making William out a usurper.
The Social Contract
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He became King George VI upon the abdication of his brother, King Edward VIII, later duke of Windsor.
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His death was followed 11 months later by King Edward VIII's abdication.
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What else but a commitment to the long-term abdication of critical thinking could explain why millions of whites take so quickly to Rush Limbaugh: a guy whose motto for years was that he would "tell you what to think" and whose fans call themselves "ditto" heads (as in, "same as above," which is nearly the perfect metaphor for people who follow someone else like sheep).
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It is also part of an ever-growing abdication of responsibility on the part of our political leaders.
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The Arizona attorney-general called the situation "a national abdication by the Justice Department."
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As that abdication left Holland for twelve years under a regency, that is to say, under the direct influence of the Emperor, according to the terms of the constitution, there was no need of that union for executing every measure he might have in view against trade and against England, since his will was supreme in Holland.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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No one realized that more than the king himself, who suffered much distress for his victim, and was with difficulty dissuaded from the abdication of his throne.
Hawaii's Story, by Hawaii's Queen
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On 9 August 1886, he was forced by a group of Russophile Bulgarian officers to sign a statement of abdication.
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He refused to make a formal announcement of his abdication or to come to the capital.
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This, combined with poor prospects for economic gain by the British, resulted in a de facto abdication of many responsibilities of governance.
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Meanwhile, Russia's problems did not disappear with the abdication.
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On 22 June, Napoleon signed his second and final abdication.
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God's apparent abdication from the affairs of the world seemed unforgivable.
Birthday
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The social degeneration that the government's abdication of its role has caused has not been identified with any real clarity.
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It carried off the declaration which has already been made public in the announcement of abdication.
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That's an abdication of responsibility towards the most vulnerable members of society.
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British troops and armoured cars then surrounded the royal palace and Lampson demanded Farouk's abdication.
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For every rationalist metaphysician, from Plato to the last disciples of Hegel or Marx, this abandonment of of the notion of a final harmony in which all riddles are solved, all contraditions reconciled, is a piece of crude empiricism, abdication before brute facts, intolerable bankruptcy of reason before things as they are, failure to explain and to justify, to reduce everything to a system, which 'reason' indignantly rejects.
Grammarian Peeves
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The king signed the instrument of abdication.
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The acceptance of this privately drafted law by the Oireachtas would amount to a wholesale abdication of its legislative function.
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It was indeed a strategy, but it derived its force from the willing abdication of the right to physical self-defense.
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And because of the things I have related do I make abdication and give my chiefship to Moosu, who alone knoweth how ye may be fed in this day when there be no meat in the land. '
A HYPERBOREAN BREW
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Abdication is precluded by the lack of a possible successor.
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The hall was Emperor Qianlong's study after his abdication.
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Probably a primary false note in this tragedy was his abdication from a prestigious New York law organisation given a white cabinet partial of insulted him.
Archive 2009-11-01
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The word abdication conciliated politicians of a more timid school.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2
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This is an abdication of responsibility and leaves the panel in an impossible position.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having skirted the issue of Shajara's political influence in this manner, Humphreys did not have to mention the caliph's order for the sultana's abdication.
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His reckless gamble lasted but a Hundred Days, culminating in Waterloo and his second abdication.
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Reddy believes that the abdication of Edward VIII was a continuation of the War of the Roses.
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In "The King's Speech" Mr. Firth uses a touching combination of vulnerability and fortitude to play Albert, Duke of York — George VI once he ascends the throne after the abdication of his older brother, Edward VIII.
With Vulnerability and Fortitude
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I was able to show that several had been ‘doctored’ after Mary's forced abdication to justify what her enemies had done to her, implicating her in crimes she didn't commit.
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There had been a complete abdication of responsibility.
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Ah yes, the anti-monarchist musings that led directly to the abdication of King Charles III.
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Peace required partial ideological abdication, in that each state treated as legitimate other states whose arguments for their own legitimacy were anathema to its own principles.
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On 12 February 1912 an edict of abdication was issued on behalf of the child Emperor.
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It called for freedom from Spain, a provisional Government and the ultimate formation of an independent "Empire of Mexico" with either King Ferdinand VII, who was considering abdication from the Spanish Throne, or some other member of the Spanish Royal family, heading a Constitutional Monarchy.
Agustin Iturbide, unappreciated unknown
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Following Alexander's formal abdication in September 1886, Stambolov headed the regency council.
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It is a self-conscious abdication of responsibility, for the sake of an individual ego.
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This is an abdication of responsibility and leaves the panel in an impossible position.
Times, Sunday Times
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The resulting spectacle of oppression is profound: students communicate symbolically the intellectual and cultural violence of the state's abdication of education, and the authorities, ridiculously, actually interpellate themselves.
Sarah Amsler: Creative Militancy, Militant Creativity and the New British Student Movement
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It was indeed a strategy, but it derived its force from the willing abdication of the right to physical self-defense.
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Catering to such people might even be considered an abdication of responsibility for a program director bent on public service.
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Abdication of responsibility because other people - the Trots like the dead-eyed Margaret Beckett and her old husband of 82 who dodders along on the payroll of the British taxpayer as her "personal assistant"?
Nadine on Gypsies and Smacks
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Queen Christina was keenly interested in music both before and after her abdication.
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To demand that the police are there to protect you is an abdication of your own responsibilities.
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At bottom, this is not about legal analysis abstracted from those existential/practical matters, this is not about finessing legal casuistries, this is about repeated and repeated abdications on the part of the federal govt.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Feds May Sue Arizona Over Immigration
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The king's abdication and replacement by his son is unlikely to usher in major changes in Cambodia unless the former king decides to jump into the political arena, political analysts and royalists say.
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What began as pro-democracy demonstrations have become an angry uprising the aim of which is the abdication of the King and the abolition of the monarchy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Furthermore, we have a deference to authority that amounts to an abdication of individual responsibility.
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What began as pro-democracy demonstrations have become an angry uprising the aim of which is the abdication of the King and the abolition of the monarchy.
Times, Sunday Times
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American divorcee whose marriage to Edward VIII created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication.
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Hepungently assesses the disgusting abdication of moral responsibility being displayed by Europe over the race to acquire nuclear weapons.
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The lie, which soon became an untruth (for people came genuinely to believe this ungenuine account), was that Keats's sensibility, his sensitivity, the thinness of his skin, and the coagulatory thickening within his troubled mind were responsible first for his abdication, so discouraged was he by the reception of his poems, and then for his death.
Keats's Afterlife
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Yet any implication of presidential abdication of the policy formulation role in this sphere is a misconstruction.
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The conference at Abernethy ended in the abdication of Constantin.
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There had been a complete abdication of responsibility.
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They hinted at the means of preserving it, but durst not pronounce the word abdication: so difficult it is to overcome the respect, that a great man inspires.
Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II
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What we are really witnessing is an abdication of responsibility on the part of European governments for the implementation of a potentially beneficial technology.
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But the war over, peace came, and came as a levin stroke from a clear sky the Great Refusal, the abdication by that nation of world leadership.
The United States and the League of Nations
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On 12 February 1912 an edict of abdication was issued on behalf of the child Emperor.
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To do pioneering work, he or resolutely abdication, preparation is barehanded make the world.
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It was only through the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936, that, suddenly, she was thrust into the limelight, and became our Queen.
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This is an abdication of what education is about.
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Philipina_, and a galiot was built and despatched to the group (it is doubtful which), named by this expedition the _Philippine Islands_ in honour of Philip, Prince of Asturias, the son of King Charles I., heir apparent to the throne of Castile, to which he ascended in 1555 under the title of Philip II. on the abdication of his father.
The Philippine Islands
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I resent the people who did this simply out of reverence for their ‘god’ (nature) and in pursuance of the ideal that the worship of this ‘god’ mandates: the total abdication or removal of modernized man from the face of the earth, for the sake of “letting nature do its thing.”
Wolves Kill 23 Lambs In Oregon
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This is an abdication of responsibility and leaves the panel in an impossible position.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet, at the end, he did facilitate acceptance of the kaiser's abdication, the establishment of the Weimar Republic, and the armistice, and he remained a hero.
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We have had a complete abdication of responsibility by the Government.
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On 12 February 1912 an edict of abdication was issued on behalf of the child Emperor.
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On the contrary, its abdication from the realm of the mind can make it seem another form of fideism.
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She became the mistress of Ludwig I in Munich in 1846, an affair which eventually led to the King's abdication in 1848.
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Spoiling your ballot paper (s) today is an abdication of personal responsibility.
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The state, on its part, has been impartial in its abdication of responsibility with regard to women of all communities.
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Its abdication of responsibility pertaining to right wing talk radio is particularly pathetic.
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Following Alexander's formal abdication in September 1886, Stambolov headed the regency council.
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Heller mocks Ziegler, but it is a press secretary's imperative, the abdication of responsibility, that disfigures his own work—"Something Happened" might as easily have been titled "Mistakes Were Made," Ziegler's most memorable cop-out—and the consequence of this passivity is a sense of grievance.
Major Minor
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In 1918, with the abdication of the last Habsburg, Karl I, the modern Republic of Austria was founded.
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To say it is impossible to segregate fans is a lame excuse and an abdication of responsibility which will eventually drive away some Bolton supporters from attending altogether.
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Failure was an abdication of personal responsibility, a cause of a guilty conscience.
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Or there may be a tendency to place too much faith in Fate, which leads to an abdication of personal responsibility.
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The king signed the instrument of abdication.
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And since monetary policy in a liquidity trap must work mainly through its effect on expectations, such diffidence is not only an abdication of responsibility; it undermines the effectiveness of whatever monetary expansion actually takes place.
Matthew Yglesias » Monetary Policy in an Emergency
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To equivocate in the face of it would be an absolute abdication of intellectual responsibility.
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Garrow offers three basic reasons why he thinks Justice Blackmun is guilty of "a scandalous abdication of judicial responsibility."
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Amidst the bleak despair of this ignoble abdication, a few organisations bravely banded together under the banner of Citizens Initiative in Ahmedabad.
