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Example sentences for: relinquished

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Pinochet peacefully relinquished power, his former opponents are pleading for his return.
The British finally relinquished Hong Kong to China.
Habibie has apparently decided not to run to remain in office, but the bigger news that affects many people and concerns the U.N. and the countries currently supplying peacekeeping forces in East Timor is that Indonesia's legislature has formally relinquished the nation's claim to the region.
Cook did a great job in Volume 1 of demonstrating how flawed Franklin was as a husband; how he relinquished all control to his mother and absented himself from the brutal conflicts that resulted between ER and her mother-in-law.
He started selling records out of his own car, and he hasn't relinquished control of anything yet.