Sentences with phrase «abdication from»

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From his self - imposed exile, he sent out letters announcing the possibility of his abdication, according to «Ivan the Terrible» by Robert Payne and Nikita Romanoff.

But here, too, there is little that is actually new, although there is detail that confirms what shrewder observers of Vatican life pieced together after the events of early 2013: that Benedict XVI's poorly - planned 2012 visit to Mexico and Cuba convinced him that he could no longer travel; that he believed the Pope must be present at World Youth Day 2013 in Brazil, a conviction that became the terminus ad quem driving the timing of the abdication and what immediately preceded it; and that, contrary to speculations that have become more lurid over time, Benedict's concern about his increasingly frailty, which fuelled his concern that he would be increasingly unable to give the Church what she deserved from a pope, was the sole motive behind his decision to renounce the Oice of Peter — not Vatileaks, not concerns about financial and other corruptions inside the Leonine Wall, not blackmail.

I insist that racism is our heritage, that Thomas Jefferson's genius is no more important than his plundering of the body of Sally Hemmings, that George Washington's abdication is no more significant than his wild pursuit of Oney Judge, that the G.I Bill's accolades are somehow inseparable from its racist heritage.

Hawaiiguest, Let's see judgmentalism, marginaliztion, and abdication of responsibility, judge yourself, live separated from the world, and depend on God.

Johnson also touches on a wide range of other issues, from the absurdity of postmodern science to the appeal of Eastern Christianity to the abdication of revealed truth in American universities.

His contemplation of the «ontico - ontological difference» is conducted from so absolute a posture of metaphysical surrender, and is so successful in its abdication of all enduring metaphysical principles and postulates, that it turns out to be capable of accommodating everything.

In short, the Nature we know from modern science embodies and reflects immaterial properties and a depth of intelligibility... To view all these extremely complex, elegant and intelligible laws, entities, properties and relations in the evolution of the universe as «brute facts» in need of no further explanation is, in the words of the great John Paul II, an «abdication of human intelligence».»

If there was an abdication of responsibility, it was from those who forgot that when people propose a change to the status quo, especially a fundamental constitutional change, the emphasis rests with them to make their argument.

In his Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (published 1852), he was contrasting the farce of Louis Napoleon's French dictatorship (as Napoleon III, 1851) to Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's real power and glory (as Napoleon I, 1799); after the tragic mimicry of Napoleon Francois Charles Joseph Bonaparte, as Napoleon II, Emperor - without - Empire of France, after his father, Bonaparte's abdication in 1814; and from birth, titular Prince Imperial and King of Rome).

It became evident that without abdication states risked a succession of extremely elderly kings and queens, as the crown was passed from centenarian to octogenarian.

A: Donald Trump, abdication of U.S. leadership on climate and increased risk of damage from...

The shot of McDormand walking away from the bewildered but relieved couple in a restaurant is «cool,» I guess, but the abdication of any responsibility toward another woman who might be in the same dangers she faced is demoralizing — and McDonagh doesn't know it.

Just from things I have read I think the abdication and her dad taking over as King had a profound impact on the young Elizabeth.

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The incredible complex was built on a grand scale, with 980 buildings spread over 180 acres housing the family, their staff and the royal guard from 1406 to the abdication of the last Chinese Emperor in 1912.

There are few other signs of life in these large, ground - floor rooms, and those there are speak of suspension, abdication, displacement and substitution: a long heartrending letter from an artist explaining how personal crisis has forced him to withdraw (Kai Althoff); the politically and logistically improbable journey of a Picasso from the Netherlands to Palestine (Khaled Hourani); Tammy Wynette forever stuck on the line «I'll just keep on», never quite reaching «Til I get it right», the song's eponymous lyrical and melodic resolution (Ceal Floyer).