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    Use "relinquishing" in a sentence

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    relinquishing


    1. "Dad" Todd didn't sound too thrilled to be relinquishing her hand


    2. Finding wounded by the roadside, he insisted on mounting his horse, relinquishing the hospital wagon for their use


    3. “What’s the matter?” she asked, relinquishing the gun to Terry


    4. Motivation is usually squandered by us relinquishing our power and responsibility in the hands of someone else


    5. The relinquishing of


    6. opposites! With this new being came, of course, a relinquishing of a third of our given


    7. “You wish!” cried Jai, holding the satchel firmly behind his back with no intention of relinquishing anything


    8. As the oedipal son passes through the stage of relinquishing his mother, he begins to


    9. having trouble relinquishing the thought of his favorite


    10. Organized violence, whether it be nations at war, criminal gangs, or political uprisings are dependent on the relinquishing of individual responsibility over to others

    11. “Not all is as it seems,” Burning Cloud said relinquishing


    12. grass and weeds came to an end relinquishing their territory


    13. Viscount Berkeley had financial difficulties and King Edward paid off those debts, resulting in Berkeley then relinquishing his claims to the Mowbray estate


    14. of relinquishing authority to his Spiritual Guide


    15. before any of this relinquishing its property


    16. The leader was the last to go, not relinquishing his position over me too easily; but when he was alone and saw his now useless gun—he did run


    17. authorities, she couldn’t see herself relinquishing


    18. intention of relinquishing and will be raised by a contracted party such as the biological


    19. it has made university students go into business as a pure cop-out… as a conscious relinquishing of all their own personal morals, ethics, and values


    20. As a result of this mass amnesia, this push to forget and block out everything that happened in WW1 and WW2, the seminal book of the 20th century: Mein Kampf was forgotten and ignored, discounted, misperceived, misunderstood and buried in the American wild rush into hedonism and the relinquishing of all traditional Protestant morals and ethics under the barrage of the Jewish culture of greed and amorality spreading all over the world

    21. completely rearranged your normal reality,' he said casually without relinquishing his


    22. relinquishing the ancient tenets of immortality and eternal suffering, we endanger the hold of religion on the fears of ungodly men, and banish a wholesome dread of God's judgments from His own servants—that on the contrary it will be found, under every spiritual and pathetic presentation of the doctrine of life only in Christ, there is a large gain on the side even of a useful fear


    23. The suitor, kissing the hem of the garment again before relinquishing it, replied,


    24. If a bridge receives a BPDU message with better values than those in its own messages, it stops transmitting BPDUs over the port through which it arrived—in effect relinquishing its duties to the bridge better suited for the job


    25. Rostopchin was so pleased with the fine role of leader of popular feeling, and had grown so used to it, that the necessity of relinquishing that role and abandoning Moscow without any heroic display took him unawares and he suddenly felt the ground slip away from under his feet, so that he positively did not know what to do


    26. Many a time I have shared between two claimants the precious morsel of brown bread distributed at tea-time; and after relinquishing to a third


    27. “You give it up very gleefully,” said he; “I don’t quite understand your light-heartedness, because I cannot tell what employment you propose to yourself as a substitute for the one you are relinquishing


    28. In the resolute readiness with which you cut your wealth into four shares, keeping but one to yourself, and relinquishing the three others to the claim of abstract justice, I recognised a soul that revelled in the flame and excitement of sacrifice


    29. The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish his labor with every day, relinquishing all claim to the produce of his fields, and sacrificing in his mind not only his first but his last fruits also


    30. Rostopchín was so pleased with the fine role of leader of popular feeling, and had grown so used to it, that the necessity of relinquishing that role and abandoning Moscow without any heroic display took him unawares and he suddenly felt the ground slip away from under his feet, so that he positively did not know what to do

    31. And I did this for the purpose of impressing upon the House an opinion, that if the Administration had practised upon the principles of their predecessors, all had been well; or, that if retracing their steps, or relinquishing the path of error and misfortune, they would still be the learners of wisdom and experience, it would not even now be too late to retrieve the affairs of the country


    32. This pledge, although it does not necessarily import, does not exclude, the intention of relinquishing, along with the Orders in Council, the practice of those novel blockades, which have a like effect of interrupting our neutral commerce: and this further justice to the United States is the rather to be looked for, inasmuch as the blockades in question, being not more contrary to the established law of nations than inconsistent with the rules of blockade formerly recognized by Great Britain herself, could have no alleged basis other than the plea of retaliation, alleged as the basis of the Orders in Council


    33. , her relinquishing the Orders in Council


    34. Pinkney, of the 31st of August, 1810, when he states that he is commanded by his Majesty to repeat the declaration made to this Government in February, 1808, of his Majesty's desire to see the commerce of the world restored to that freedom which is necessary for its prosperity, and his readiness to abandon the system which had been forced upon him, whenever the enemy should retract the principles which had rendered it necessary; and to assure us that whenever the repeal of the French decrees shall have actually taken effect, and the commerce of the neutral nations shall have been restored to the condition in which it stood previously to the promulgation of those decrees, he will feel the highest satisfaction in relinquishing a system which the conduct of the enemy compelled him to adopt


    35. In the midst of these scenes of devastation and murder, the Moravian missionaries have wandered in deserts, in mountains, in dens and caves of the earth, never relinquishing their purposes, and they have obtained a good report through faith


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    Synonyms for "relinquishing"

    relinquishing relinquishment

    "relinquishing" definitions

    a verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc.


    the act of giving up and abandoning a struggle or task etc.