How To Use Relinquishment In A Sentence
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Among the Buddhist monks, it was their practice as part of their religion to shave off their heads as a symbol of relinquishment of all fascinations for worldly attractions and stringency of living as well.
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This mass relinquishment will re-expose spring's rookeries, which have been concealed these last few months, forgotten.
Times, Sunday Times
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This mass relinquishment will re-expose spring's rookeries, which have been concealed these last few months, forgotten.
Times, Sunday Times
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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: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment.
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The relevant section specifies that “relinquishment of the exercise of ordained ministry removes from the [cleric] the right to exercise … spiritual authority as a minister of Word and Sacraments conferred in ordination.”
ACoC priest, Alan Perry, questions the ACNA briefing paper « Anglican Samizdat
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A wary Hamilton thought he'd better break off the affair, but Maria's "appearances of violent attachment, and of agonizing distress at the idea of relinquishment" played on his "sensibility, perhaps my vanity," so he planned "a gradual discontinuance ... as least calculated to give pain, in case a real partiality existed" - meaning he couldn't keep away from her.
City Journal
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For life is paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment.
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Caretakers report behavior problems as the primary reason in 40% of dog relinquishments and 28% of cat relinquishments.
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In the mail I received a signed relinquishment for the land from the young man, withdrew the contest and sold the relinquishment, which is the filer's claim to the land, for $450.
Land of the Burnt Thigh
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Our curriculum trains for the relinquishment of judgment as the necessary condition of salvation.
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Similarly, Martin Narey's call for a return to 1970s figures for baby adoptions suggests lack of awareness of the difference between contemporary adoption from care and historic "relinquishment" of illegitimate children.
Letters: Adopting a child-centred approach
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But in our neighborhood a highwayman was a myth, -- we had hardly ever even heard of one; and so, after no end of misgivings lest one or another lion in the way should after all compel the relinquishment of the excursion, literally at the eleventh hour they were fairly on their way.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866
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If in the end you feel you have no choice but relinquishment, I hope you'll work with a local rescue organization to find a new forever home for your pet.
Dr. Karen Becker: Would You Choose Your Pet Over Your Partner?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
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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.
