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17 examples of Abdicated in a sentence

But we've abdicated the future from the high priests in Rome to the high priests of Silicon Valley.
The federal government abdicated most responsibility.
In fact, the czar abdicated after World War I proved a disaster for the country, and a provisional government tried to rule as a pseudo-democracy until the Leninists took power nine months later, mainly because they promised to immediately withdraw Russia from the war.
But it was super producer Selznick who hit upon the idea in 1937 because of the current media frenzy over the recent coronation of Britain's King Edward VIII who abdicated the thrown to marry a commoner out of true love in 1936!
After this period, the US abdicated its proper role as a net exporter of capital and finance, and less developed economies became net sources of investment funds.
Beethoven’s only opera, written in 1805 (the year of Napoleon’s victory at Austerlitz) and rewritten in 1814 (when Napoleon abdicated), is one of the supreme cultural expressions of fundamental human values – freedom and opposition to tyranny – that resonate in every society.
Instead of contributing to such a program, they abdicated too easily to market fundamentalism and bought in to its central tenets.
Unfortunately, many human molecular geneticists have abdicated any responsibility for trying to decrease the overall burden of such diseases.
More broadly, Trump has diminished America itself, and abdicated its global leadership role.
Its soaring deficits and unsustainable debts were symptoms of serious pathologies: a dysfunctional public sector, an uncompetitive private sector, and an elite that abdicated its responsibilities and, rather than facing the challenges of the day, used the state as a means to supply jobs to political loyalists.
In matters of war and peace, Japan abdicated its sovereignty.
Some smaller countries have abdicated their role in influencing Europe’s future.
With the presidential election just around the corner, it’s worth recalling the many ways Trump and the GOP have completely abdicated any sense of US responsibility toward the rest of the world.
After all, he has abdicated US global leadership and let China fill the vacuum without firing a single shot.
Part of the problem, of course, is that global governance in general has been marginalized, now that the US has abdicated its role as the custodian of the international order.
Governments that have long abdicated their duties to the private sector now need to catch up, which will require them to rethink intellectual-property regimes and their approach to R&D and public investment and procurement more generally.
They also abdicated their own responsibility for formulating coherent policy platforms.