Sentences with phrase «abdication took»

George Weigel suggests reforming the College of Cardinals: As configured on February 28 (when Benedict XVI's abdication took effect), the College was a somewhat strange electorate, albeit one that produced a striking result.

As configured on February 28 (when Benedict XVI's abdication took effect), the College was a somewhat strange electorate, albeit one that produced a striking result.

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We all like to slum it, sometimes, but to get too enthusiastic about pop culture materials or, worse, to take them seriously as objects of aesthetic judgment — well, that was an abdication of the critic's responsibilities, not to mention a sign of vulgar taste.

The King takes the throne following the abdication of his father.

A policy of non-enforcement that amounts to an abdication of an agency's statutory responsibilities could potentially be said to violate the Take Care Clause.

Nowhere is the abdication of training truer or more harmful than in the course work elementary teacher candidates take in reading instruction.

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.

When referring to the managers of Berkshire's operating companies Charlie Munger has mentioned in the past that they take an approach which is «delegation just short of abdication.»

Both Buffett and Munger often give the impression of being very hands - off with the management of the companies Berkshire owns — in the past Munger has referred to the culture of managing investee companies at Berkshire as being «decentralization almost to the point of abdication» but this letter suggests Buffett was not shy about making an interjection where he thought it was necessary: «Brandeis has taken a number of our boxes and placed them on the counter with 25 other offerings of cheap bulk candy, and other run of the mill products.

We eviscerate Nintendo's depressingly meagre Wii U Direct this week and discuss the implications of Ninty's new deal with SEGA; we take a look at EA's abdication of Nintendo's ailing console; we dance on the grave of the Online Pass and delight in the news of GT6 and Putty Squad's return, 20 years after it was never released for the Amiga; and we take a look at the recent formation of DICE LA, and what it might mean for EA and Star Wars.

Most other nations seem to be taking Trump's abdication as a spur to action.

It is an abdication of responsibility for an expert to take advantage of this.

Accordingly, disclosure to a third party can not in every case be taken as an abdication of a consumer's privacy interest.

Clinical experience often shows that where the father is alcoholic and there is a son in the home, the son tends to take on «father responsibilities» in an effort to compensate for the father's abdication of his role.