Object

• responsibility: We cannot abdicate the responsibility to deal with these acts in the correct manner.

• control: Will artists routinely compete for control or abdicate control in favor of a defined group esthetic?

• crown: On 29 Apr 1826 Pedro abdicated the Portuguese crown in favor of his seven year old daughter, Maria da Glória of Portugal.

• king: On 11th December 1936 the king abdicated in favor of his brother, the Duke of York, who became George VI.

Modifying Another Word

• not: But our people have opted for democracy as a way of life from which we will not abdicate.

• never: Courts must never abdicate their duty to protect citizens from the abuse of power by governments, a senior judge said last night.

• virtually: Halliday sets the boundaries of successful modern revolution at 1789 and 1989, when Soviet power virtually abdicated ( 130 ).

• soon: His mother, Mary Queen of Scots, abdicated soon after his birth.

Preposition: in

• favor: People have decided to ask the Tsar to abdicate in favor of his son.

• favor: He agreed to abdicate and retire to Medina 291 Hasan abdicates in favor of Mu'awiya, 21 iii.

Preposition: from

• responsibility: To abdicate from responsibility by doing nothing is to sin.