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Bill Bradley missed such a moment the other night in Iowa, when Gore brayed at him from the stage Bradley had just relinquished.
Sancho IV took Gibraltar in 1310, but the Christians later relinquished their prize, and the Moors held on to it until 1462.
The British finally relinquished Hong Kong to China.
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.
Whatever the vagaries of world politics, Berlin has never relinquished its role as national capital in the realm of the arts or shopping.