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Mary was forcedto abdicate in 1567, and the infant prince was crowned as James VI.
But as the wars continued, Napoleon, distrustful of his ally, forced the Spanish king to abdicate in 1808 and imposed his brother Joseph as king of Spain.
The prestige associated with publishing in a selective journal is sufficiently valuable that scientists are generally willing to abdicate the legal rights to their own work without remuneration.
Whether you wanted charter schools and tradable pollution credits or higher pay for teachers and EPA mandates, you didn't want the federal government to abdicate all responsibility for education and the environment.
The uprising was quashed, however, and in 1795, Poniatowski was forced to abdicate.