How To Use Relinquish In A Sentence
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Two years later she was omitted from the European squad that relinquished the trophy in Minnesota.
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These require you to face manipulative individuals, relinquish your rights unfairly or be exquisitely tactful when you'd be justified in blowing up.
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In power they have relinquished that role.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unlike partnerships in which the partners decide policy, in the business corporation the equity owners relinquished their privilege in favour of the directors.
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But they emphasise the importance of relinquishing some of what you've been struggling to keep afloat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Would the army really relinquish power?
Times, Sunday Times
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Ministers of any government have no intention of relinquishing control over local government spending.
Times, Sunday Times
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He relinquished the Armed Services chairmanship in order to head the Appropriations Committee, where he secured continued funding for the war.
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Grosjean outdragged him along the front straight before cutting inside at La Source and into a lead that he never looked like relinquishing.
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Irvine finally pulled ahead seven minutes into the second period, taking a lead they were not to relinquish.
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Women also took on managerial roles for the first time, but relinquished their positions as soon as the men came back from fighting.
Times, Sunday Times
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What Happened: After possessing Lafayette, she forced Jesus to relinquish his brujo powers, and then she killed him.
True Blood Episode Recap: "And When I Die"
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The ostensible reason is that he does not wish to relinquish his seat in the European parliament.
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The paradox of trust is that by intelligently relinquishing power, one gains it back many times over.
INSIDE THE TORNADO: MARKETING STRATEGIES FROM SILICON VALLEY'S CUTTING EDGE
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Suppose that a firm needs fresh equity capital but its present stockholders do not want to relinquish their control of the firm.
Principles of Corporate Finance
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HARLEM - An NYPD detective invited to a community meeting about concerns of police brutality was refused entry into a Harlem mosque because he refused to relinquish his badge and his gun, police said.
Atlas Shrugs
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In power they have relinquished that role.
Times, Sunday Times
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Zen meditation is offered as the radical practice of "objectless meditation," a path of relinquishing all things, including the self.
Rev. Zesho Susan O'Connell: Zen Practice Is Difficult And Dangerous
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In 1983, the junta relinquished power.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are history interpreted retrospectively, reversed and inverted - my point being that history neither begins in nor relinquishes myth.
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In many cases, relinquishing coheirs (usually siblings who move away) must be compensated for their shares in a farm by the remaining heir.
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Often spouses aren't eager to relinquish their newly acquired skills of independence and self-reliance.
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As late as 1949, more than 80 percent of China’s dioceses remained under the control of European bishops who had little interest in relinquishing their sees to the Chinese.
Keeping Faith
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And now I'm a newly minted PI with a postdoc and a part time research assistant and have to relinquish control of the day-to-day benchy stuff ... and I'm not sorry to admit that I am completely sick of doing bench work myself and hope to avoid it like the plague from here on.
Control freak
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It requires a woman to trust her partner and relinquish control.
Times, Sunday Times
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Giasone" (1649) is a comic farrago on the Jason-Medea-Golden Fleece tale, with Jason as a serial debaucher, Medea switching from jealous harpy to generous relinquisher of said Jason to her rival Isifile (both women have given birth to twins sired by Jason), and a bevy of clownish servants.
On a Tattered Shoestring
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Brasilia warned it would not relinquish command of UN forces in Haiti, and Paris complained the airport had become a US "annexe", exposing a brewing power struggle amid the global relief effort. ...
An Englishman's Castle
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She relinquished her claim to the property.
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Stewart, chairwoman of Omnimedia, will relinquish the job of editor in chief at her magazine to editor Stephen Drucker.
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By now we're reluctant to relinquish them, so like a part of our bodies have they become.
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It requires a woman to trust her partner and relinquish control.
Times, Sunday Times
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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
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Store managers may not have been thrilled with the idea of relinquishing stockpiles during the boom years, but the contraction no doubt nudged them in a direction that will ultimately make them a more stable employer.
Edward Muzio: The Upside of the Economy's Downturn
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For your company, additional share capital could result in you relinquishing some control, while introducing your brother as another shareholder may put off external investors.
Times, Sunday Times
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He relinquished this perk as he himself prefers to live with his large family in a shack in the location.
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Drawn by a total revulsion of ideas from the chain of thinking that had led him to composition, he relinquished his annotations in resentment of this dismission, when he might have pursued them uninterruptedly without neglect of other avocations.
Camilla
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I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest
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And, of course, it means relinquishing power in due course - but going gently into that good night, rather than after some final, nail-biting showdown.
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How could this possibly be relinquished?
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When people are convicted of crimes they do not, of course, relinquish all their rights.
Times, Sunday Times
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Suppose that a firm needs fresh equity capital but its present stockholders do not want to relinquish their control of the firm.
Principles of Corporate Finance
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The United States is pressing the rebel army to relinquish power.
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I laughed so much with both surprise and delight that I gladly relinquished the bread to gabbling beaks and they went on their way to steam-roller another 'insouciant' picnicker.
Ame soeur - French Word-A-Day
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P.S. You will have a letter from my cousin James, who hopes to prevail upon you to relinquish the executorship.
Clarissa Harlowe
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He could relinquish his guardianship and say, I'm not in charge of Terri anymore.
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For the Frankfurt School critics, romantic and postromantic lyric dramatizes with special intensity modern aesthetic quasiconceptuality’s more general attempt to stretch conceptual thought proper; this special intensity arises from lyric’s constitutive need musically to stretch "objective" conceptual thought’s very medium, language — to stretch it quasiconceptually all the way towards affect and song, but without relinquishing any of the rigor of conceptual intellection. [
Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics
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She has relinquished the post to her cousin, Sir Edward.
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However, he signed a contract relinquishing his claim to his benefits in April 1994, just one month earlier.
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A great many designers, it would seem, enjoy relinquishing the responsibility for such things in favor of client interests.
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He will also relinquish his role as chairman of the accountancy firm's global network.
Times, Sunday Times
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There the women are free to work and hold positions of power, while the men are kept sequestered in prisons called mardanas this is a play on words: in Hossain's time, women were relinquished to a part of the house called zenana, and mard is the Urdu word for man.
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appley" scale and had the same outstanding texture of the russet: firm, yet just soft enough to have relinquished itself to the pie.
Serious Eats
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The readiness of politicians to relinquish power amazes me.
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The paradox of trust is that by intelligently relinquishing power, one gains it back many times over.
INSIDE THE TORNADO: MARKETING STRATEGIES FROM SILICON VALLEY'S CUTTING EDGE
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He will also relinquish his role as chairman of the accountancy firm's global network.
Times, Sunday Times
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In 1806 he relinquished the crown of the Holy Roman Empire.
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A poetical revolution has taken place there, my whole concern is got into new hands from the death of Mr Hood, and the relinquishment of the trade of the other partner.
Letter 276
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From rival rallies and refusing to relinquish the title president or his seat in Parliament, to snubbing Mogoba's overtures and then forming the Positive Action Council, Makwetu became a destructive force.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Relinquish your grip on the rope -- you won't fall.
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She relinquished all rights to motherhood.
The Sun
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Would the army really relinquish power?
Times, Sunday Times
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Unfortunately, you may have to relinquish some managerial control in exchange for their money!
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There is no evidence of her ever wishing to voluntarily relinquish the post.
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They will never voluntarily relinquish their independence.
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Christian should reluctantly give up, one by one, the pleasures of the world; and look back upon them, when relinquished, with eyes of wistfulness and regret: because he knows not the sweetness of the delights with which true Christianity repays those trifling sacrifices, and is greatly unacquainted with the _nature_ of that pleasantness which is to be found in the ways of Religion.
A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity.
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She relinquished all rights to motherhood.
The Sun
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The readiness of politicians to relinquish power amazes me.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even when we have relinquished this infantine period, we are seldom left destitute of religious instruction.
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Secondly, and connectedly, it is an attempt at absolute relinquishment of the vantage of a particular sector, class, dialect, jargon, idiolect or diction.
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He was forced to relinquish his share of a private plane.
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Article 52 The plaintiff may relinquish or modify his claims.
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If you make no personal plans, you are relinquishing control over your retirement.
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Notwithstanding all my daughter says in gaiety of heart, she would sooner even relinquish the man she loves, than offend a father in whom she has always found the tenderest and most faithful of friends.
The History of Emily Montague
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He relinquished the hope of ever straightening out people like me.
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Sonsona who decided to move up two weight divisions told us he expects a "very competitive fight" when he meets undefeated Vazquez Jr for the WBO super bantamweight title relinquished by Juan Manuel "Juanma" Lopez who moved up to featherweight and won the title with a battering of Steven Luevano.
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Gqozo later issued a decree amending the homeland's constitution to allow sovereignty to be relinquished.
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The militias have relinquished control of the airport and largely vanished from the clogged streets.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whether the army will really relinquish control again is far from certain.
Times, Sunday Times
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Colleagues want some downtime, so they may relinquish power.
The Sun
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She relinquished possession of the house to her sister.
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Fischer, a child prodigy became the United States' only world chess champion by defeating Soviet masters, but refused to defend his title and relinquished it to the Soviet champion Anatoly Karpov in 1975.
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He has relinquished his claim to the throne.
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Their lawyer told the court that, since they had relinquished any claim to the child, there was no purpose in continuing the application.
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Ministers of any government have no intention of relinquishing control over local government spending.
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But the Danish Viking relinquished his hold upon Bernicia and, moving south in the following year, possessed himself of the kingdom of York.
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He had relinquished all hope that she was alive.
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It is little to relinquish. What is it but a wilderness of misery and ruin?'
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This excess in value above the half of the just price, the said emperor and king of Castilla relinquishes for himself and his successors, and disunites the same from the royal crown of his kingdoms forever, and delivers it entire to the said King of Portugal, to him and to his successors and crown of his kingdoms, really and effectually, in the aforesaid manner, and during the time of this contract.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 1493-1529 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
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Those relinquishing claims to their ancestral homes would be given compensation.
Times, Sunday Times
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For your company, additional share capital could result in you relinquishing some control, while introducing your brother as another shareholder may put off external investors.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is usually because the relinquishment took place as a result of an affair, rape, incest, prostitution, or the birthparent (s) were prominent politicians, actors or sports figures whose reputations/careers might be at stake.
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In power they have relinquished that role.
Times, Sunday Times
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A year after launch, it was America's most popular diet drink, a position it has never relinquished.
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For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment.
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When people are convicted of crimes they do not, of course, relinquish all their rights.
Times, Sunday Times
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The paradox of trust is that by intelligently relinquishing power, one gains it back many times over.
INSIDE THE TORNADO: MARKETING STRATEGIES FROM SILICON VALLEY'S CUTTING EDGE
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Convinced that ‘image is everything’, they have relinquished manufacturing to become bargain hunters in search of the best deal in the global mall.
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The phrase “relinquish license for ministry” is canonically meaningless in the Anglican Church of Canada.
ACoC priest, Alan Perry, questions the ACNA briefing paper « Anglican Samizdat
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We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. George Orwell
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Such a course of action would then result in that particular councillor relinquishing his or her right to participate in the debate and vote when the application is determined by the planning committee.
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This alone would have been dessert of course, and I just had a little taste of each with sips of my coffee, relinquishing the rest as a humble offering to the gods of gastronomy.
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Whether with the arrival of a younger and more energetic person she was voluntarily relinquishing her hold on her customary tasks, or whether a sudden collapse of her vitality forced her to do so, Lucy could not determine; nevertheless, it was perfectly apparent that she daily attacked her duties more laggingly and complained less loudly when things were left undone.
The Wall Between
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Relinquishing foreign fleshpots after his child appears on the scene, Everard comes home, undergoes a meaningless conversion, and turns into a "mean cold misanthropist" 192 instead.
Protestant Truths and Roman Catholic Errors: Part II of II
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Do I relinquish all property rights about whether the police can film in my house?
Times, Sunday Times
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Members could sell their shares but were also entitled to relinquish them at any time.
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France has been reluctant to relinquish the remaining pieces of its colonial empire.
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She believes that when women do not have the right to choose what happens to their bodies, they risk relinquishing rights in other areas.
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The Australian Government expresses its support for the democratic opposition in Serbia in its current efforts to force Mr Milosevic to relinquish power and welcomes what we hope is the imminent restoration of democracy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Developments in Yugoslavia
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She relinquished her claim to the property.
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I relinquished my hold on the rope at once.
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It was with bitter ill-will that he relinquished these comforts (which he called his studies) in order to recommence a hard ride upon a high-trotting horse.
Old Mortality
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If this be the case the parasitism is the reverse of that which occurs in Cuscuta, in which the plantule draws its first nourishment from the earth, relinquishing this when sufficiently developed to enable it to draw its supply from other plants.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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Meditation allows us to relinquish our worries and anxieties and awaken our innate energy and creativity.
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He had relinquished all hope that she was alive.
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Those relinquishing claims to their ancestral homes would be given compensation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Smitten with Angel, a high-maintenance diva, Troy vows to relinquish the life of a skirt-chaser if only he can get Angel in his arms.
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The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go, for life is a paradox: we cling to its many gifts eventual relinquishment.
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By that time, the composer had relinquished serial methods and pursued a process of simplification.
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They relinquished government rather than compromise their principles of arbitration in workplace relations.
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Odyssey at a distance of some six centuries; and in the interval it is extremely likely that anthropophagy had become rarer among the Greeks, and that if they still continued to be cooking animals, they were relinquishing the practice of cooking one another.
Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
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She relinquished all rights to motherhood.
The Sun
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Rep Ross has relinquished any semblance of leadership, and has kowtowed to lobbyists and misinformation.
Blue Dog will vote against bill with public option
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Joy advocates a policy of "relinquishment" -- a self-denying ordinance by which nations, commercial organizations and scientists would agree that certain technological advances were simply too dangerous to be worth pursuing.
After Sheep And Pigs, Goo
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But the septuagenarian brothers are still heavily involved in the running of the business and they have no desire to relinquish control.
Times, Sunday Times
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It appears that the imperial chapel was reorganized in 1545, and Crecquillon probably then relinquished the position of maître de chapelle, which was united with that of maître des enfants, with Cornelius Canis assuming the combined role.
Archive 2009-06-01
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Nevertheless, I relinquished not my hold, for I was truly attached to the fellow, and in due time we made a mile, though I know the cyclometer would have recorded ten.
St. Cuthbert's
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If you make no personal plans, you are relinquishing control over your retirement.
Times, Sunday Times
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»Brasilia warned it would not relinquish command of UN forces in Haiti, and Paris complained the airport had become a US "annexe", exposing a brewing power struggle amid the global relief effort.
Dedefensa
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The partial relinquishment of sovereignty to the European Union is seen by many people as jeopardizing national integrity; renewed interest in the flag is one response to that situation.
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I think I shall have a mighty awesome night tonight .... and may even tell u all about it tomorrow ... (hmm perhaps not ALL) * cachinnate* relinquished - curiosity
Phelicity Diary Entry
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The mouth had not quite relinquished rotundity of curve for the firm angularities of middle life; and the eyes, though keen, permeated rather than penetrated: what they had lost of their boy-time brightness by a dozen years of hard reading lending a quietness to their gaze which suited them well.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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But Morrisons said he would instead "relinquish" CEO duties today.
The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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We may have territorial claims we do not want to relinquish, but we do not need to press them.
Times, Sunday Times
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When people are convicted of crimes they do not, of course, relinquish all their rights.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unlike men, who continue to be "mothered" -- by their wives, secretaries -- women are expected to relinquish that and provide it for others.
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And accordingly the latest writers on this subject have relinquished that accusation; they no longer charge the old pedagogue with such an effort of genius; they confine themselves to accusing him of ingratitude towards his benefactress, which is as much as to say that a little personal favour, even when well earned, is to compel a man to shut his eyes henceforward to the character and conduct of the person who has conferred it, and that both patriotic feeling and political policy are to be quenched by a pension, which is a strange view.
Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
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The real fascists must be the ones who keep trying to prevent individuals from freely relinquishing their rights and the rights of others for the good of the state.
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But over protection and over direction can make loved ones feel smothered: relinquish top billing for a support role this week.
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Do I relinquish all property rights about whether the police can film in my house?
Times, Sunday Times
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His lover has admitted her sin and relinquished her claim.
Christianity Today
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These require you to face manipulative individuals, relinquish your rights unfairly or be exquisitely tactful when you'd be justified in blowing up.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite one minister relinquishing his ministerial portfolio, the country is still not confident that there is integrity in public life.
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He relinquished the protectorship without regret, to live as a subject; and in the tranquillity of a country life he enjoyed health and possessed his soul in peace for ninety years, beloved by his neighbors, to whom he was a peacemaker and a father.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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His lover has admitted her sin and relinquished her claim.
Christianity Today
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Acquiring knowledge about animal behavior, as well as general animal health care, prior to acquiring a pet could prevent relinquishments of this type.
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She relinquished all rights to motherhood.
The Sun
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The family must gradually relinquish control while maintaining ‘a veto against excess and danger,’ in which the relinquishment is at least as difficult for the parent as the veto may feel to the child.
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Anyone who decides to publish personal materials on a blog for the entire world to see implicitly relinquishes his right to privacy * as pertains to those materials*. reply
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But following the Prakash Singh Badal and Karunanidhi model where aging leaders are preparing to "relinquish" power to their sons, a Rahul Gandhi coronation in the middle of UPA government's next term seems likely.
Retributions
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Amy, his wife, naturally relinquished her job as secretary to John and actively encouraged him.
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Unlike partnerships in which the partners decide policy, in the business corporation the equity owners relinquished their privilege in favour of the directors.
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In 1983, the junta relinquished power.
Times, Sunday Times
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They had relinquished all hope that she was alive.
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It has not happened because the commonwealth lacks the constitutional power and the states have never all agreed to relinquish responsibility.
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It comes across as granting power to the multitudes, but is actually about relinquishing responsibility for ideas and actions and submitting to the spontaneous.
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Finally catching hold of Loki, he overpowered him and forced him to relinquish the stolen gold.
The Gods of Asgard
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To relinquish military possession or occupation of ( a town, for example ).
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Not to be confused with the schoolboy's desire to have the body fully exposed, eroticism is thus transformed from a problem of knowledge and possession — of knowing/seeing/having the body of the beloved — into a problem of imagination and relinquishment — of seeing what is to be seen and imagining what is not and letting go of the illusion of mastery.
How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision
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She refused to relinquish her position, despite declining popularity and health problems.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the whole, we remain faithful to the Christmas customs of my own home, which vary little from those of the Germans in Riga, where my wife's family belong; nay, it is so hard for me to relinquish such childish habits, that, when unable to procure a Christmas tree for the two "Eves" I spent on the Nile, I decked a young palm and fastened candles on it.
The Story of My Life
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He, who relinquished his executive's job in an insurance company to take the plunge into active politics, is keen on taking an untrodden path.
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Robert relinquished his claim in return for Henry's territories in Normandy and a large annuity.
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Deripaska's Basic Element holding company ceded its 20 percent stake in Magna bought last year for $1.5 billion to creditors and "relinquished" its 10 percent stake in Hochtief to Germany's Commerzbank.
Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
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Under this mild phrase, _to admonish_, was concealed a cruel exercise of tyranny -- it meant to warn a man that he was suspected of treason, and that he had better relinquish the exercise of his burghership.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series
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Those relinquishing claims to their ancestral homes would be given compensation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Suppose that a firm needs fresh equity capital but its present stockholders do not want to relinquish their control of the firm.
Principles of Corporate Finance
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Later he relinquished his practice work and concentrated on anaesthetics, finally retiring in 1974.
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In the extreme situation, to the Buddhist it was the relinquishment of the world of suffering and agony, of duhkha, and he did it by stepping into the selfless blank of Nirvana.
Archive 2008-01-01
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Parents need to begin relinquishing control on day two of their children’s lives.
Let’s Talk About It–Again! « Awful Library Books
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Islamists revere the hajj, the religious pilgrim who relinquishes his earthly possessions in order to fulfill the commands of God.
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Easter on the fourteenth day of the moon, whatever day of the week that might be, following therein the tradition which he claimed to have derived from St. John the Apostle, came to Rome c. 150 about this very question, but could not be persuaded by Pope Anicetus to relinquish his Quartodeciman observance.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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'Marino Faliero' was the first of his productions in which, relinquishing the so-called classic rules, he endeavored, as a French critic fitly remarks, to introduce a kind of eclecticism in stage literature; a bold attempt, tempered with prudent reserve, in which he wisely combined the processes favored by the new school with current tradition.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11
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The social pressures which forced pregnant teenagers and unwed mothers to relinquish their babies exacted an enormous price.
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For your company, additional share capital could result in you relinquishing some control, while introducing your brother as another shareholder may put off external investors.
Times, Sunday Times
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Colleagues want some downtime, so they may relinquish power.
The Sun
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It means, even in good, good attempted and relinquished, which is always a terrible thing, because it is sure to betray some one who relied upon its accomplishment.
Indian Summer
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The old man told him, with vain regrets, as age was creeping on him, and he had been obliged to relinquish part of his duties, that of delivering the town letters, and this meant a considerable diminution of salary.
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For although Münzer repudiated infant baptism in theory, he did not relinquish its practice, nor did he insist on the re-baptism of believers.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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Ministers of any government have no intention of relinquishing control over local government spending.
Times, Sunday Times
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It requires a woman to trust her partner and relinquish control.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fatah, however, never fully relinquished control.
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He's relinquished his claim to the throne.
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To create a demise or bareboat charter, an owner must relinquish possession, control and navigation of the vessel the charterer.
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She relinquished her hold/grip on the steering wheel.
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But a claim - and bank notes or deposits are claims to money - does not involve the creditor's relinquishing any of the present good.
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Llwelyn was forced into a humiliating surrender that included relinquishing control over the eastern part of his territory and an acknowledgment of fealty paid to Edward I annually.
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That outburst---and her "nanny nanny boo boo, Barb's an alcoholic" tattle-taling after the disastrous school board meeting where she is exposed as a bottom-threatener---keep Nicki from being Wife of the Week, but her furious, flailing relinquishment of power stokes the drama in scene after scene.
Mark Blankenship: Big Love Wife Watch!: Season 5, Ep. 1
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Do I relinquish all property rights about whether the police can film in my house?
Times, Sunday Times
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Government largely relinquished its role in transport and fisheries.
Times, Sunday Times
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Looking to all the circumstances, both of the Transvaal and the rest of South Africa, and to the necessity of preventing a renewal of disorders, which might lead to disastrous consequences, not only to the Transvaal but to the whole of South Africa, _our judgment is that the Queen cannot be advised to relinquish the Transvaal_.
Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal
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Gqozo later issued a decree amending the homeland's constitution to allow sovereignty to be relinquished.
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She goes on to describe devotion and faith as the relinquishment of expectation.
Ester Amy Fischer: My Year of Eating, Praying, Loving: Healing Journey or Hocus Pocus?
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Whether the army will really relinquish control again is far from certain.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whether the army will really relinquish control again is far from certain.
Times, Sunday Times
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The term "relinquish" has negative connotations: it means giving up something that may not have been properly yours.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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Mr Rumble, a qualified chartered engineer, today insisted that the share sale was more as a gesture of incentive than any kind of prelude to relinquishing the reins, particularly as he is still the majority stakeholder.
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'But, Sir! but my father!' cried Camilla, hanging over him, and losing in filial tenderness her personal distresses; 'if your manner of living is altered, and my dear mother returns home and sees you relinquishing any of your small, your temperate indulgencies, may it not yet more embitter her sufferings and her displeasure for the unhappy cause?
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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relinquish the old ideas
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The hands that held her upper arms gentled, though they did not relinquish their hold.
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After losing this conflict, France relinquished to England control of its colonies, through the Treaty of Paris.
