relinquishment

How To Use relinquishment In A Sentence

• A poetical revolution has taken place there, my whole concern is got into new hands from the death of Mr Hood, and the relinquishment of the trade of the other partner. Letter 276
• Secondly, and connectedly, it is an attempt at absolute relinquishment of the vantage of a particular sector, class, dialect, jargon, idiolect or diction.
• This is usually because the relinquishment took place as a result of an affair, rape, incest, prostitution, or the birthparent (s) were prominent politicians, actors or sports figures whose reputations/careers might be at stake. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
• For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment.
• The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go, for life is a paradox: we cling to its many gifts eventual relinquishment.
• Joy advocates a policy of "relinquishment" -- a self-denying ordinance by which nations, commercial organizations and scientists would agree that certain technological advances were simply too dangerous to be worth pursuing. After Sheep And Pigs, Goo
• The partial relinquishment of sovereignty to the European Union is seen by many people as jeopardizing national integrity; renewed interest in the flag is one response to that situation.
• Acquiring knowledge about animal behavior, as well as general animal health care, prior to acquiring a pet could prevent relinquishments of this type.
• The family must gradually relinquish control while maintaining ‘a veto against excess and danger,’ in which the relinquishment is at least as difficult for the parent as the veto may feel to the child.
• Not to be confused with the schoolboy's desire to have the body fully exposed, eroticism is thus transformed from a problem of knowledge and possession — of knowing/seeing/having the body of the beloved — into a problem of imagination and relinquishment — of seeing what is to be seen and imagining what is not and letting go of the illusion of mastery. How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision