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How To Use Relinquishing In A Sentence

  • '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
  • If you make no personal plans, you are relinquishing control over your retirement. Times, Sunday Times
  • A venture capital funding arrangement will typically entail relinquishing some level of ownership and control ofbusiness.
  • Her victory was announced by an unusual tranquillity and gladness of soul, which followed the relinquishing of my ancient and latterly tormenting studies. Chapter 2
  • Thus the relinquishing of violence can only be achieved as part of work on ourselves under the aegis of Esotericism.
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  • When Clare joins the revolutionaries, she cedes her grandmother's land to the group, thus relinquishing part of the basis of her privilege.
  • Despite relinquishing day-to-day control of his company, Gates is still chairman and tends to just have weekends free for the foundation.
  • Again and again, the history of the Web shows us the value of relinquishing control.
  • Newmania - if you liquidise an asset without relinquishing your ownership (ie remortgage) you are taking a gamble on the market sustaining the value of that asset. Leaseholders Stabbed in The Back
  • And then the relinquishing is not so painful, is it? The Honeymoon’s Over
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • But a claim - and bank notes or deposits are claims to money - does not involve the creditor's relinquishing any of the present good.
  • Ministers of any government have no intention of relinquishing control over local government spending. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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
  • '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
  • Parents need to begin relinquishing control on day two of their children’s lives. Let’s Talk About It–Again! « Awful Library Books
  • Ministers of any government have no intention of relinquishing control over local government spending. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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
  • Personally I am not so unconfident in our nation as to believe any agreement we enter into with the United States immediately means we are relinquishing our sovereignty.
  • Edwin acquiesced, as he was to return with all speed to join his friend on the southern bank of the Forth; and Helen, aware that fields of blood were no scenes for her, while her heart was wring to agony at the thought of relinquishing Wallace to new dangers, yielded a reluctant assent, – not merely to go, but to take that look of him which might be the last. The Scottish Chiefs
  • This may well involve either retaining the operational responsibility or relinquishing that as well to release resources and realise capital. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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
  • Globalization differs from modernization by relinquishing a Eurocentric teleology to accommodate the possibility of different historical trajectories in the unfolding of modernity.
  • This was done with a view to reporting whether the conditions had been complied with upon which the foreign powers would be justified in relinquishing their extraterritorial rights. China and the Foreign Powers
  • But the idea of relinquishing those delightful amusements and flattering attentions, which wealth and equipage bestow, is painful. The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact
  • Those relinquishing claims to their ancestral homes would be given compensation. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her bold hands coax the thread through white cotton, relinquishing a fragment of the kaleidoscopic hues within her soul to cavort freely across the snowy landscape. A Michoacan tradition: the needlework artistry of Hermelinda Reyes
  • This may well involve either retaining the operational responsibility or relinquishing that as well to release resources and realise capital. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her equity acknowledged that Clermont had every right of choice: but while her candour induced her to even applaud his disinterestedness in relinquishing the Cleves estate, her capacity pointed out how terrible must be the personal defects, that so speedily, without one word of conversation, one trial of any sort how their tastes, tempers, or characters might accord, stimulated him to so decisive a rejection. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
  • Despite one minister relinquishing his ministerial portfolio, the country is still not confident that there is integrity in public life.
  • While he has allowed legislative elections since then, he has shown no sign of relinquishing power.
  • Those relinquishing claims to their ancestral homes would be given compensation. Times, Sunday Times
  • If you make no personal plans, you are relinquishing control over your retirement. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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
  • Ministers of any government have no intention of relinquishing control over local government spending. Times, Sunday Times
  • If you make no personal plans, you are relinquishing control over your retirement. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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
  • A great many designers, it would seem, enjoy relinquishing the responsibility for such things in favor of client interests.
  • However, he signed a contract relinquishing his claim to his benefits in April 1994, just one month earlier.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest
  • Those relinquishing claims to their ancestral homes would be given compensation. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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
  • 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
  • In many cases, relinquishing coheirs (usually siblings who move away) must be compensated for their shares in a farm by the remaining heir.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Grosjean outdragged him along the front straight before cutting inside at La Source and into a lead that he never looked like relinquishing. Pitpass - the latest hottest F1 & A1 GP news
  • Ministers of any government have no intention of relinquishing control over local government spending. Times, Sunday Times
  • But they emphasise the importance of relinquishing some of what you've been struggling to keep afloat. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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
  • 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
  • We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. George Orwell 
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • She believes that when women do not have the right to choose what happens to their bodies, they risk relinquishing rights in other areas.
  • 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
  • Those relinquishing claims to their ancestral homes would be given compensation. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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
  • If you make no personal plans, you are relinquishing control over your retirement. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
  • Despite one minister relinquishing his ministerial portfolio, the country is still not confident that there is integrity in public life.
  • 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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