Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.    From LearnThat.org.  [Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American transcendentalist philosopher, essayist & lecturer]

The word abdication conciliated politicians of a more timid school.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2] Reference

God's apparent abdication from the affairs of the world seemed unforgivable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birthday] Reference

Somers vindicated the use of the word abdication by quotations from Grotius and Brissonius, Spigelius and Bartolus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2] Reference

One journalist called the abdication the greatest news story since the resurrection.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2002] Reference

Even after her abdication was a fact, there had still been a hundred things to deal with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Widows and Orphans] Reference

The so-called abdication, but really the deposition, of Prince Couza, as it was narrated at the time, was effected as follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roumania Past and Present] Reference

He's going to be certain that the abdication was a ruse, until he gets reports that Elspeth really did give up all of her power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Widows and Orphans] Reference

The whole concept of "abdication" has been analysed by M. Granet.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of China] Reference

De Winter said the hypocrisy charge seeks to mask an "abdication" of responsibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montgomery County council spending comes back to haunt] Reference

That time was 1968, when the light had been seen, as Johnson's "abdication" in the spring had made clear.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Special Supplement: The Meaning of Vietnam] Reference

He is determined not to let the same kind of abdication bring disaster with the referendum.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

After fierce criticism from senior American officials of its "abdication" to the Taliban in parts of the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference

A well-considered and voluntary abdication is more regal than that daily abdication which is undergone in the degradation of power.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution] Reference

A kind of abdication of the political writer's previous mission - not just to present, but to explain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference

At the same moment the abdication of the King was declared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edmond Dantès] Reference

Toyota's Olympic moment arrives thanks to an abdication by GM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toyota’s Olympic Turn] Reference

I met Lewis Cooper one evening shortly after my father's abdication.    From Wordnik.com.  [LIGHT FINGERS] Reference

Communist "people's republic" in 1947 and the abdication of the king.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

From the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the abdication of James II, 1688.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference

We can't fire him, we don't dare to approach him to suggest his abdication.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trail's End] Reference

"They are going to the Chamber of Deputies to complete the abdication!" cries one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edmond Dantès] Reference

There must be an abdication in favor of the Count of Paris, and the appointment of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edmond Dantès] Reference

A huge national audience listened in, second only to that hearing Edward VIII's abdication.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Uncomfortable Seat] Reference

The funding hurdle also conjures up memories of the West's abdication of responsibility in Rwanda in 1993.    From Wordnik.com.  [Promising Too Much?] Reference

To the advocates of early surgery, waiting for kids to make their own decisions sounds like a moral abdication.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gender Limbo] Reference

Emperor Galerius, and dating from the short period when, after the abdication of Diocletian and Maximianus, Hercules.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference

Each new abdication of American authority, each new attempt to finesse a crisis, reduces the president's future options.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Politics Of Promiscuity] Reference

But the intellectual and even moral laziness of this approach results in an invisible abdication of political responsibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rx for Health Care: Pain] Reference

Inaction would amount to an abdication of our collective responsibility to protect the peace and reinforce stability in Asia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tough Talk But Little Action Against North Korea] Reference

Daniel Goldhagen notes the same abdication, the same absence of outrage and responsibility among Germans during the Holocaust.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Willing Executioners] Reference

The abdication of our will/ego to a deeper function of consciousness can be quite a challenge as the retrograde cycle continues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donna Henes: How to Have a Smooth Mercury in Retrograde] Reference

Fitzroy Somerset -- sometime between the abdication of Napoleon and Waterloo, and before his lordship had lost his arm -- was in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

That man was Émile de Girardin, the editor of "La Presse," and the murderer of Armand Carrel, and that paper was an act of abdication.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edmond Dantès] Reference

Soviet occupation following World War II led to the formation of a communist "peoples republic" in 1947 and the abdication of the king.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference

All information about my 'abdication' or my resignation are totally false, "he is said to have written in a letter to members of his party.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

His successor submitted to the decision of the sword, and in fact performed an act of abdication inferior only to that executed by Napoleon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference

What a sorry reflection on his program not to mention a total abdication of his responsibility to the players, regardless of their NBA dreams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starr Gazing: Richardson's Race Card] Reference