Abdicate

At the beginning of the pontificate, Francis praised his predecessor’s decision to abdicate and suggested that abdication was an option for him.

Photo: Keld Navntoft/Ritzau Scanpix/via REUTERSDenmark's Queen Margrethe II, Europe's longest-serving monarch, will abdicate on January 14 after 52 years on the throne and will be succeeded by her eldest son Crown Prince Frederik.

Even when we have this freedom, we abdicate items deemed out of place or childish.

Frederik and his younger brother, Prince Joachim, Count of Monpezat, were informed of their mother’s decision to abdicate three days before the public announcement.

Harald has repeatedly said he has no plans to abdicate, unlike his second cousin Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, who stepped down earlier this year.

Queen Margrethe II will become Denmark's first monarch to abdicate in nearly 900 years when she hands over the throne to her son, who will be crowned King Frederik.

RICHARD EDEN: Danish Queen Margrethe's decision to step down shows King Charles CAN abdicate when the time is right - whatever his mother would have said.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Denmark’s announced Sunday that she plans to abdicate and hand over the throne to her son, Crown Prince Frederik.

I’m glad to be described as a separatist because the alternative is to be an apologist for an unrepresentative government in Westminster and to abdicate decision making to that same out-of-touch group.

What self-care in this case ultimately involves is being able to discuss what happened to you, abdicate any responsibility you think you might have, seek justice if that is important to you, and learn how to cope and move forward after the experience.

When key information is in the hands of a forked-tongue serial liar and his favored media outlets, it's extremely easy for the intellectually lazy to abdicate all responsibility for truth.

Given how long the Prince of Wales has waited for the crown, it is unlikely that he will abdicate when the time comes for him to sit on the throne.

He denounced the interim government led by Bakhtiar and asked him to abdicate power immediately.

It was a sad day for fry lovers everywhere, and the king was immediately asked to abdicate the throne.

I wish they would have let them abdicate sooner.

Offering nothing more than thoughts and prayers is to abdicate responsibility and to succumb to the absurd idea that all of this is somehow normal.

Okay, emperors aren’t technically allowed to abdicate, but this is a pretty new rule.

Pharmacy benefit managers were conceived to negotiate lower prices in the pharma value chain, but rebate abuse has become so widespread and profitable that the middlemen routinely abdicate this responsibility to lower list prices and co-pays for patients.

The 85-year-old was given permission to abdicate after saying he felt unable to fulfil his role because of his age and declining health, BBC reports.

Thunberg can't even get you to abdicate your air-conditioning.