The current legal framework prevents abdication of a sitting emperor, so in order for an abdication to go ahead, there would need to be revisions to the Imperial Household Law.
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Is going to a club a genuine abdication of reality?
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It is abdication, the voluntary relinquishing of power and responsibility.
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How isolated is the US becoming in this new abdication?
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Democrats are describing it as an abdication of constitutional responsibility.
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It is also an abdication of conservative principles and responsibility.
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The last abdication by a Japanese monarch was in 1817.
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It's an acknowledgement of abdication of sort of cultural responsibility.
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That's an abdication of power we should refuse to accept.
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That is an abdication of your responsibility as a leader.
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The abdication of a Japanese royal has not transpired since 21990.
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Abdication by a reigning emperor has never occurred in modern Japan.
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Tillman's abdication creates a power vacuum, which overwriting rushes to fill.
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It is the abdication of responsibility that Madison so rightly feared.
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This abdication of responsibility may be blamed on the rules themselves.
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It's also a denial and neglect and an abdication of responsibility.
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It was an absolute abdication of any sort of executive authority.
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Given this wider context, Akihito's abdication really is momentous for Japan.
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With Akihito's abdication, Japan's monarchy is facing a looming succession crisis.
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The abdication required a special act of Parliament, passed in 2017.
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It is a sorry abdication of duty damaging to all involved.
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No wrongheaded American abdication can diminish the importance of this task.
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"The need for judicial deference does not justify judicial abdication," Furman wrote.
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It is the first abdication by a Japanese monarch in two centuries.
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A frankly stunning abdication of ethics, patriotic duty, and rule of law.
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Akihito's abdication and Naruhito's succession, however, will not end Japan's Imperial crisis.
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Why, that would be an abdication of your civic duty, wouldn't it?
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It's a shameful abdication of duty at arguably the worst possible time.
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No reason was given for the abdication, the first in Malaysian history.
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I can even understand abdication, which is its own form of absolution.
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What is already clear in this moment is the Senate's abdication of duty.
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In a normal story, this abdication would spell the end of Benedict's reign.
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The congressional abdication of responsibility is far broader than the AUMF issue, however.
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It listed 23 potential problems for institutionalizing abdication, while mentioning 10 supporting views.
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Another harbinger of tax hikes is the abdication of spending restraint by Republicans.
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But that would mean an abdication by Congress of an important constitutional duty.
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He meant the United States after the moral abdication of the Trump years.
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And now, again, we are about to see the consequences of that abdication.
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But if Congress prefers abdication, a two-emperor system isn't built to last.
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"There has been an abdication" of leadership by the United States, he said.
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He added that it would be a "shameful abdication" of the Senate's responsibility.
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Any further delay in doing so would be an abdication of Congressional responsibilities.
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Under Mafia tradition, a boss can be removed only by death or abdication.
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That is not an abdication of responsibility, it is an acknowledgement of reality.
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After cabinet approval, the Diet is likely to pass an abdication law next month.
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Nonetheless, the title he is to be accorded after abdication is a touchy matter.
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And after the abdication, Herman gave Wallis away at her wedding to Edward VIII.
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A new generation of younger staff regard silence on social issues as an abdication.
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As expected, he avoided using the word "abdication," which could have violated those restrictions.
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"This process has been the apotheosis of the problem of congressional abdication," Murkowski said.
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It's this total abdication of emotional responsibility that makes unrequited love so weirdly pleasurable.
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Trump will not bear the cost of his immoral abdication of the climate challenge!
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the government would "robustly" discuss the law regarding abdication.
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" Dr. Singer said Ms. Elia's letter was "an abdication of New York State's responsibility.
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Correction: This story has been updated to correct the year of Edward VIII's abdication.
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Meanwhile, an abdication of America's traditional stabilizing role in South Asia has been announced.
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Juan Carlos' retirement will officially begin on June 2, exactly five years after his abdication.
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But critics saw his reluctance to intervene in Syria as an abdication of American responsibility.
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Typical: you wait 60 years for an abdication, and then two come along at once.
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The move would mark the first abdication of a Japanese monarch in about 200 years.
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An abdication would be unusual for recent years, but hardly unprecedented over Japan's larger history.
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"I think it's an abdication of a core executive responsibility, setting troop levels," said Sen.
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Before abdication could occur, the Japanese Parliament would need to revise the Imperial Household Law.
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"I see this as a collective abdication of intellectual and even moral responsibility," he said.
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Trump's abdication of American leadership has rendered the G-7's formal summit agenda irrelevant.
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The government would submit a special abdication law to parliament as early as this spring.
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This amounts to an abdication of responsibility by the Federal Reserve Board and its chairman.
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The government could submit a special abdication law to parliament as early as this spring.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will announce the abdication followed by Akihito's final remarks as emperor.
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Anything less is an affront to common decency and an abdication of duty to constituents.
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It occurred after the abdication of Charles X, not his death (Charles lived until 1836).
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They have to stop making excuses for Trump's utter abdication of the responsibilities of leadership.
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Whether or not this is politically wise, failing to impeach would be a grave abdication.
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Ms. Boël filed her lawsuit after the king's abdication, seeking recognition as his biological daughter.
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Barr does acknowledge, because he must, the increasing abdication of Congress from its policymaking duties.
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Failing to act now is an abdication of leadership and the highest form of cowardice.
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Of course, abdication of America's moral responsibility is something previous Presidents could be accused of.
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Unless you count her general abdication of some archaic and deeply silly first lady duties -- Mrs.
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Five years after his abdication, King Juan Carlos I of Spain is retiring from public life.
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That too offends the nationalists, since abdication supposedly breaks with over two millennia of immutable tradition.
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Its abdication of responsibility makes Labour complicit in the crisis that is about to engulf Britain.
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Where "OOF" suggests fatigue and abdication, Kass's diptych speaks of annoyance, exclamation, and, above all, engagement.
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Given his popularity, his abdication, the first in Japan in over 200 years, was a surprise.
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A Japanese monarch has not stepped down in about 200 years, but abdication is hardly unprecedented.
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His father, Akihito, stepped down in the first abdication by a Japanese emperor in two centuries.
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This abdication of leadership is the true reason why the Republican Party no longer really exists.
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Following the abdication, Mako's father, Prince Akishino, 51, will become first in line to the throne.
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This brazen abdication of judicial independence shows just how unlawful much of modern administrative activity is.
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After the events of the past several weeks, it is an abdication of their core responsibilities.
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It is perhaps the most stunning and dangerous abdication of presidential leadership in the modern era.
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Acknowledging this complexity is not the abdication of moral judgment that many liberals seem to think.
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Today's decision is an utter failure on that promise and an abdication of our moral leadership.
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This is even truer given congressional abdication of the foreign policy responsibility it ought to wield.
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That would be an abdication of the news media's role to hold the powerful to account.
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But Trump's moral abdication, divorced from any coherent strategic objective, has ushered America into new territory.
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And that willful abdication has cost our nation dearly, most notably in America's misadventures in Iraq.
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This is a moral abdication of such proportions that America's alliances are left without ideological foundation.
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But I think this is an abdication of our responsibility to improve and change the world.
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It would be an abdication of the Justice Department's congressionally mandated responsibilities to ignore these problems.
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Tuesday's abdication was the first in more than 200 years, since Emperor Kokaku stepped down in 1817.
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Additionally, since higher voices are characteristic of children, using uptalk seems like a voluntary abdication of authority.
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"So that was an abdication of responsibility of not being there to take the joke," he said.
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But Shinto is still a big part of official events such as this week's abdication and coronation.
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Next week a panel appointed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will start considering the topic of abdication.
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Judicial abdication in those circumstances is instead an invitation to unwise and unconstitutional actions by future presidents.
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" Lifting a line from a 1981 Supreme Court opinion, the judges added, "Deference does not mean abdication.
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Withdrawing from NAFTA would harm the U.S. economy and signal the abdication of U.S. global economic leadership.
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Akihito's abdication entails, by contrast, a retreat from public life spurred by advanced age and declining health.
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The Trump Administration's move today is a painful abdication of American leadership on transparency and good governance.
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Today's law against abdication is a legacy of this divine status — how could a deity ever resign?
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But blaming a platform for our inability to draw and maintain attention is an abdication of responsibility.
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The party's left flank argues that not beginning proceedings would amount to an abdication of constitutional responsibility.
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In other words, Akihito's abdication isn't a break from tradition; it's a return to an anterior practice.
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This congressional abdication of its constitutional responsibility and authority to such fundamental executive branch encroachments is unacceptable.
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There has been no abdication, no renunciation of his duties by Mr. Trump for one simple reason.
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This would be a disabling abdication of its rights and obligations as a separate branch of government.
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The legislation approved Friday would give the emperor and his wife, Empress Michiko, new titles upon abdication.
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And after Charles X's abdication, Louis-Philippe, a cousin to Louis XVI, assumed the throne in 1830.
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In our era of congressional abdication, all presidents are prodded or tempted toward power grabs and caesarism.
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The 86-year-old Akihito stepped down in April last year in an extremely rare imperial abdication.
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An ahistorical, amoral American leader cheering on a British abdication sums up the end of an era.
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To do anything less would be a complete abdication of what it means to be an American.
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Ordinary Japanese sympathize with Akihito's desire to retire, but Japan currently has no legal provision for abdication.
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"When dealing with agencies, this abdication by ambiguity is even more tempting — and even more problematic," Thapar wrote.
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Judicial abdication when those conditions are not met does not impinge on the appropriate operation of such deference.
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It would combine this abdication of authority with a longstanding failure to limit the use of appropriated funds.
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Akihito's upcoming abdication, the first in more than two centuries, is widely expected to be announced by December.
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Muhammad V's abdication marked the first time in modern history that the country's constitutional leader has stepped down.
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Sheikh Hamad announced his abdication in 2013, turning power over to his son Sheikh Tamim, who remains emir.
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Current law does not allow abdication, so it offers no guidance about the role of a retired emperor.
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By assuming that identifying as "wife" is an abdication of power, she is giving power to that assumption.
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Justice Kennedy suggests that the doctrine results in an abdication of the judicial role to interpret federal law.
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On Tuesday, Emperor Akihito stepped down, yielding to his eldest son in the first abdication in 200 years.
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On Tuesday, the emperor stepped down, yielding to his eldest son in the first abdication in 200 years.
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But not to bring it to the floor is an abdication of his responsibility to the American people.
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The abdication was spun to the population as a love story, a romance rather than a political crisis.
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We cannot let President Trump's abdication of leadership dictate the future of Dreamers living in the United States.
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King Felipe ascended to the Spanish throne in 2014 following the abdication of his father, King Juan Carlos.
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I do think that the idea of turning appointments over to an organization is an abdication of responsibility.
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Gorsuch wrote that it was time for the high court to intervene in Congress's apparent abdication of responsibility.
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For all the talk of American greatness, Trump's actions regarding climate change represent a historic abdication of leadership.
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The Constitution makes no mention of abdication, and no emperor has stepped down since Emperor Kokaku in 1817.
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Companies, maybe it sounds like an abdication, but I really mean it, we have to be followers there.
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" Polanski's attorney, Harland Braun, tells PEOPLE that Gordon's ruling is "a total abdication of his responsibility to the judiciary.
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The total abdication after all of these claims to ownership of the land and people is still going on.
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My idea was that because the Scots had their own crisis, that the abdication crisis never happened in England.
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Failing to fill this vacancy would be a shameful abdication of one of the Senate's most essential Constitutional responsibilities.
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No reason was given for the abdication, but many suspect the king's love life had raised too many eyebrows.
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While undeniably creative, McConnell's approach was a stunning and unprecedented abdication of authority from Republican senators and their leaders.
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"I consider myself most fortunate to have been able to do so," he said at the small abdication ceremony.
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The 85-year-old monarch's decision came as a shock, as it is the first imperial abdication since 1817.
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"But to have done anything else I felt like would have been an abdication of my responsibility," Yates said.
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Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said failure to act would be a "shameful abdication" of the Senate's constitutional duty.
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Public access to the plaza in front of the palace will be restricted during the abdication and ascension ceremonies.
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That abdication carried a rotten stench even before we knew how solicitous the Trump campaign was of Russian meddling.
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All presidents are tempted by the powers of the office, and congressional abdication has only increased that temptation's pull.
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The Supreme Court's judicial abdication pushes this crucial crisis of democracy back to Congress and the states to solve.
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Moreover, he felt that to not manage debt would have be an abdication of Congress's role representing the people.
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The first is that other countries have at times been willing to fill the vacuum left by America's abdication.
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Many Jewish and non-Jewish friends of Israel were not happy with his abdication of leadership on this issue.
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Encouraging other nations to also help guide the world to better lives does not represent an abdication of leadership.
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But rumors about a potential abdication began swirling in 2018 after he returned from two months of medical leave.
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They're an abdication of the moral code the company vaguely genuflects toward having, in the name of higher profits.
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That is why living in the present is not an abdication of ethical responsibility or a recipe for detachment.
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However, thinking so narrowly is an abdication of your responsibility, and I'm not sure this was really news anyway.
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On Tuesday, Emperor Akihito will step down, yielding to his eldest son in the first abdication in 200 years.
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But that does not explain away a glaring mathematical incongruity, nor does it justify an abdication of scholarly responsibility.
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This abdication, persistent and ongoing, naturally impels partisans to look to the courts and the executive to act instead.
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Why do Palestinians see it as "an abdication of any vestige of American impartiality in determining the region's future"?
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Failing to do so would be an abdication of its responsibilities as a separate but equal branch of government.
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After his older brother's abdication, King George VI took to the throne for a reign of nearly 15 years.
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The country was also still reeling from King Edward VIII's abdication of the throne to marry an American divorcée.
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" On March 15, the day of his abdication, the czar wrote, "All around there is treason, cowardice and deceit.
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That is a shocking abdication of presidential duty, for which Trump should be excoriated, and which he must remedy.
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Leaders are due to reveal the name of the country's next era as they prep for Emperor Akihito's abdication.
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" She said it will be "remembered as a stain on our nation and an abdication of our fundamental American values.
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A year later, parliament enacted a law making his abdication possible - the first since Emperor Kokaku stepped down in 1817.
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Their abdication of responsibility means that a continued Republican majority in the House would eventually imperil the rule of law.
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I would say that I do need to be in the mood, although really that's laziness and abdication of responsibility.
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"As of now, we are not aware of the fact that has been reported (about the emperor's abdication)," he said.
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"We will continue to discuss appropriately and will do our best to carry out the emperor's abdication smoothly," he said.
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And now we have the worst of all possible worlds: an abdication that leaves some 327 million Americans in limbo.
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As in, is he even aware that what he is saying is a total abdication of moral (and political) leadership?
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Under Japanese law, there is no constitutional allowance for abdication, with the throne passing only due to an Emperor's death.
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For the press to give her more credit than that is an abdication of their professional responsibility to the public.
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His explanation, that he hoped it would trigger the appointment of a special prosecutor, was a clear abdication of responsibility.
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That seems an indication of discomfort felt even within the Justice Department at the unjustified abdication of its traditional role.
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Who is lecturing Planned Parenthood about its abdication of progressive values as it sides with Trump against its own workers?
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Emperor Akihito's abdication on April 19933 will end the three-decade Heisei era that began on Jan.
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One could say that Akihito's message about abdication, like his father's about surrender, also shaped the will of the people.
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The Trump administration's abdication of responsibility has contributed to a 48 percent drop in global resettlement from 20113 to 2017.
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" On the same program, Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California, called it "a terrible abdication of our global leadership.
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The challenges we face at this moment in history are too serious to allow this abdication of leadership to continue.
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In extreme cases, that has even led to the abdication of voting rights and governance to the founders and CEO.
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Notable International Events January 2314 - King Muhammad V announces his abdication, after serving two years of his five-year term.
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"This is a real abdication of leadership," said Stephen Gethins, the spokesperson on Europe for the Scottish National Party (SNP).
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In the letter, the CBC called out what it described as the DOJ's "complete abdication" of voting rights oversight responsibilities.
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The Imperial Household Law, which governs the succession of emperors in the world's oldest monarchy, makes no provision for abdication.
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Such an abdication of any coherent policy vision has other Republicans in Washington, particularly those well studied in health policy, baffled.
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Japanese Emperor Akihito is preparing for his abdication from the throne, making way for his son to take over the position.
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Akihito's abdication, the first in nearly 200 years, sparked discussion about whether that was the correct way to approach the role.
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After abdication, Akihito will be known as "joko", or emperor emeritus and Michiko will be known as "jokogo", or empress emerita.
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Calling the repeal vote an abdication of responsibility, the statements from Clyburn and Rosenworcel also took aim at the process itself.
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But the focus on Ryan's motives, rather than his actions, reduces his abdication of duty to a partisan or ideological calculation.
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"Going since 2001 without a new authorization for use of military force is really an abdication of our authority," Flake said.
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Cisneros, who is independently elected, refused to comply with Lee's mandate, which would have constituted an abdication of his legal obligations.
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Leaking FBI documents to the press — through a surrogate, no less — doesn't show leadership or courage; it's an abdication of responsibility.
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U.S. abdication of its leadership role in a region riven by deep-rooted animosities could elevate the risk of catastrophic conflict.
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On the other hand, it can be thought of as an abdication of responsibility, transmitting possibly undesired autonomy to the viewer.
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Not to reckon with Luther's book would be an abdication not only of one's moral faculty but also of one's fandom.
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His proposed rollbacks of emissions regulations for transportation and now power plants are an abdication of leadership in a warming world.
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CreditCreditAssociated Press On Tuesday, Emperor Akihito of Japan stepped down in the first abdication of the Chrysanthemum Throne in 200 years.
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CreditCreditPool photo On Tuesday, Emperor Akihito of Japan stepped down in the first abdication of the Chrysanthemum Throne in 200 years.
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Sorna may seem like an odd place for the court's majority to make a stand on congressional abdication and executive overreach.
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To the many human rights groups shouting from the rooftops about Eastern Ghouta's suffering, this inaction amounts to a moral abdication.
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She confirms that in March 1917, after the tsar's abdication, there was discussion in high British places about the Russian royals' future.
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Akihito announced his plan to step down due to health reasons in December 2017, marking the country's first abdication in 200 years.
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" Ten Democratic senators signed a letter warning that his confirmation hearing risks becoming "uninformed, illegitimate, and an abdication of our constitutional duties.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Japan's emperor will pass the Chrysanthemum Throne to his son Crown Prince Naruhito after his abdication on Tuesday.
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TOKYO, April 24 (Reuters) - Japanese Emperor Akihito's abdication on April 19933 will end the three-decade Heisei era that began on Jan.
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She even went to stay with Herman and Katherine in the South of France during the frenzy that preceded the formal abdication.
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After 22005 years, Akihito's reign will officially end at midnight on Wednesday after an abdication ceremony that will last just 10 minutes.
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"Your proposed action will amount to the largest abdication of the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC's) statutory responsibilities in history," the senators write.
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After reducing her daily activities, cataract surgery proceeded later that month following initial plans of postponement until after the formal abdication ceremonies.
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The draft bill for the Emperor's abdication is to be submitted for both the upper and lower houses of parliament this week.
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We need other leaders- both Republicans and Democrats- to step in and fill the void left by this abdication of moral leadership.
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Of course, the highest profile and most important one was the abdication of American foreign policy leadership by President Obama on Oct.
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"It's an absurd abdication of our role as people who are sent here to represent communities and keep them secure," she added.
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It's a complete abdication of responsibility, and a slap in the face to any notion of justice, particularly for victims of color.
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"A CEO walking out the door just days before he is to appear before Congress is an abdication of his responsibility," Sen.
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It assessed the courts' performance during the past year, giving examples of what it labeled judicial "engagement" (good) and judicial "abdication" (bad).
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Queen Elizabeth II wields a delicate, unsought sovereignty that can never be eschewed (except by abdication or death) and is rarely exercised.
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Edward's Americanization, Powell says, fundamentally altered his sense of himself, separated him from his family and sowed the seeds for his abdication.
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No, the problem is the abdication by Mr. Trump, as the purported leader of our nation, of any rejection of such hostility.
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Anything short of an all-hands-on-deck approach is an abdication of the public's trust and our responsibility as industry leaders.
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Otherwise, congressional abdication — and therefore drastic swings in policy and ugly spectacles like the one that unfolded at the border — will continue.
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Japanese media has reported that the likely timing of the abdication will be around the emperor's 85th birthday next year, in December.
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A chorus of analysts declared the deal dead on arrival and worse, an American abdication of any mediating role in the future.
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If one were to draft a script chronicling fascism's resurrection, the abdication of America's moral leadership would make a credible first scene.
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Their inability to do so is just one more indication of Republican abdication of Congress's role as a coequal branch of government.
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Following his abdication, Edward and Simpson did not attend an official public ceremony with members of the royal family for 31 years.
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"What you did, your abdication of the throne did change my life, forever," she tells Edward, as he sinks into his wheelchair.
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Harry Reid said, ""Failing to fill this vacancy would be a shameful abdication of one of the Senate's most essential Constitutional responsibilities.
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Naruhito's father, Emperor Emeritus Akihito, stepped down from the throne because of health concerns — the country's first abdication in some 200 years.
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But the sheer length and gravity of this list is an indictment of congressional Republicans' total abdication of their responsibilities to the country.
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Epochal change Emperor Akihito will step down from the Chrysanthemum Throne -- the first abdication from the Japanese throne in 200 years -- on Tuesday.
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Katsuyuki Yakushiji of Toyo University in Tokyo reckons Akihito hopes his abdication will spark a debate about how to modernise the imperial family.
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Akihito, 222, announced his plan to step down due to health reasons in December 220, marking the country's first abdication in 5003 years.
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"Lecturing the American people about the crusades while refusing to call Islamic extremism by name is an abdication of leadership," Pence told CPAC.
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Trump is the first state visitor since new Japanese Emperor Naruhito ascended to the Chrysanthemum Throne this month following his elderly father's abdication.
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"It would be a mistake -- and frankly an abdication of congressional responsibility -- to kill this important, bipartisan amendment," she said at the time.
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After the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon returned to Paris and completed his abdication of the in the Élysée Palace on June 22, 1815.
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Farid, though, added that he believes the "abdication of responsibility on behalf of social media companies" forced the government of Sri Lanka's hand.
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He behaves in a capricious, vain way, and it isn't really until he gets to the abdication that the man's humanity comes through.
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Barry Cozier, one of the representatives of the state's chief judge, said the executive members' approach amounted to an "abdication" of their responsibilities.
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Especially given congressional Republicans' total abdication of Congress's normal oversight functions, Mueller's inquiry is essentially our only lens into some very murky terrain.
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The party's left flank, however, has urged leadership to begin proceedings, arguing that anything less would amount to an abdication of constitutional responsibility.
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In response to President Trump's abdication of international climate leadership, many states, cities and corporations are searching for ways to fill the void.
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As the Senate's former parliamentarian, I am also saddened by what I see as the individual and institutional abdication of the Senate's responsibilities.
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Of course, the downside of this approach is that it is hard to reconcile such judicial abdication with the text of the Constitution.
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Emperor Naruhito, 59, who became monarch on May 1 following the abdication of his father, Akihito, will proclaim his enthronement in an Oct.
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Recall, too, that the last time an American entered royal territory — Wallis Simpson — it caused a British constitutional crisis and a king's abdication.
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The choice to endorse two women who employ such drastically different means to achieve their ends feels like an abdication of that responsibility.
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His people and his inner circle abandoned him, leading even convinced monarchists to support his abdication in the face of revolution in 1917.
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Failing to learn and heed the lessons of last year's campaign would be an abdication of a shared responsibility to safeguard American democracy.
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However, merely extending fire-fighting funding without addressing what got us here in the first place would be an abdication of our duty.
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The abdication, the first since 1817, appears to have support among the general population, who view it as a sign of changing times.
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For an agency that demands transparency from the companies it supervises, the omission is an appalling abdication of the bureau's responsibility to consumers.
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His decision to disengage was also, particularly now, the height of irresponsibility, an abdication of that most basic duty of citizenship: staying informed.
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To let individual U.S. attorney's work without supervision or make assurances about individual investigations would be an abdication of that responsibility, he said.
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Whether waiting for Trump this time is a smart idea or an outright abdication of Congress' constitutional role depends largely on partisan affiliation.
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There is only the profound immorality of abdication — of gleefully passing a mounting problem on to our children, and on to the poor.
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I think the judge even called it, quote, "an abdication of FDA statutory responsibilities" to have delayed that rule until 2022 on e-cigarettes.
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His reign runs through midnight, when his son Crown Prince Naruhito, who observed Akihito's abdication ceremony, becomes the new emperor and his era begins.
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Also, because the imperial transition is triggered by Akihito's abdication, not his death, consumers don't feel a need to hold back due to mourning.
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For an abdication, which would be unprecedented, to be possible, the country would have to revise its current law or enact a new one.
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The wedding, which had been set for November 2018, has been postponed until at least 2020, following Emperor Akihito's planned abdication in April 2019.
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Takashi Mikuriya, the deputy chair of the advisory panel on the emperor's abdication, told a national newspaper that Akihito's retirement "opens a sealed box".
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Added to the abdication bill is a resolution that potentially questions whether women who marry outside the family have to rescind their royal rights.
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This abdication of responsibility leaves the president free to act and Congress free to criticize, an arrangement that does not serve the American people.
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Japan passed a law this year allowing him to step down in a one-off provision as existing law did not provide for abdication.
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Richard Nixon came the closest to moral abdication with his treatment of the presidency as a perch by which primarily to settle political scores.
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After what had happened with her uncle's abdication for Wallis Simpson, she knew that she would have to face ostracism if she married him.
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An adept storyteller and historian, Powell manages to humanize a monarch who has at times been dwarfed by the voluminous publicity surrounding his abdication.
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CreditCreditPool photo by Shizuo Kambayashi On Tuesday, Emperor Akihito of Japan stepped down in the first abdication of the Chrysanthemum Throne in 200 years.
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And so even as his abdication harks back to a pre-modern era, it also reveals how much Japan has changed in recent decades.
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Akihito, 85, officially announced his plan to step down due to health reasons in December 103, marking the country's first abdication in 200 years.
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His own abdication in 1848 marked the final end of the Bourbon rule which had endured, with one notorious interruption, for over two centuries.
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With so much riding on the next election, no one has quite tallied up the damage done by the abdication of US climate leadership.
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Anything less would be a complete abdication of their journalistic responsibility to inform voters on one of the most important issues of our time.
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Starting on Saturday, Japan embarks on a 10-day public holiday to mark the abdication of the emperor, who will be replaced by his son.
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The justices have seemed increasingly sceptical of Chevron in recent years, with several noting outright opposition to the idea as "abdication of the judicial duty".
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If Washington circumvents these rules to pursue a rogue approach, Trump will preside over the abdication of U.S. leadership and the ascension of Chinese influence.
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For critics of the platform, the move will likely be received as yet another abdication of responsibility for a problem that it helped to create.
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The couple's wedding, which had been set for November 2018, has been postponed until at least 2020, following Emperor Akihito's planned abdication in April 2019.
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At the same time, MBS' future will also be decided soon, as rumors are growing of an upcoming abdication of the throne by King Salman.
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Akihito will step down in favor of Crown Prince Naruhito on April 30, 2019, the first abdication by a Japanese monarch in nearly two centuries.
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Similarly, taking corruption to a supranational level that must be addressed through international cooperation is not an abdication of sovereignty; it is a desirable change.
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America's abdication of credible global leadership is already resulting in significant shifts in how major domains of global activity are being managed by other powers.
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Walking away from a truly global agreement to reduce emissions is a shocking abdication of America's leadership role and a decision that threatens our future.
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In the year after the abdication, Wallis and the Duke of Windsor left England, where they were social outcasts, and fled to France in exile.
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Trump was describing not just an abdication of global leadership but an America more concerned with asserting its prerogatives than with maintaining long-term friendships.
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"Just recently the emperor talked about the abdication," Mr. Nakamori wrote, referring to the televised address in which Emperor Akihito expressed his desire to retire.
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But this "being what one is not" is an abdication of freedom; it involves turning oneself into an object, a role, meant for other people.
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The dark orange robe and black headdress appear to be the same as those worn by former Emperor Akihito in his abdication ceremony in April.
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It would also be an abdication of responsibility to be a good citizen — to be informed and to work to make life better for others.
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"The simple fact is that the FCC's abdication of its responsibility leaves internet users with no protections today against such broadband providers' negligence," Wood said.
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The abdication date for the current emperor, Akihito, was announced in late 2017, giving the nation nearly a year and a half to get ready.
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During a discussion at the Center for the National Interest, Murphy said this trend can only be categorized as an embarrassing abdication of congressional power.
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But to those listening to it with non-American ears, too much of the speech would have sounded too much like an anthem of abdication.
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I have since Inauguration Day been troubled by abdication of moral responsibility on the part of business who have lent their reputations to President Trump.
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Just a week after the word "abdication" was first mentioned in the press, Edward became the only British sovereign to ever voluntarily relinquish the crown.
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But if Mr. Trump's opponents fail to appreciate how he capitalized on their geopolitical mistakes and their abdication of responsibility, they will risk continued defeat.
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The idea faces stiff opposition from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's conservative base, who worry abdication will trigger debate about allowing a woman to become emperor.
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The era, to be called Reiwa, will begin when Crown Prince Naruhito becomes emperor on May 1, after the abdication of his father, Emperor Akihito.
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The opinion then quoted a 1981 Supreme Court case ("deference does not mean abdication") and an opinion from 2010 ("[o]ur precedents, old and new, make clear that concerns of national security and foreign relations do not warrant abdication of the judicial role"), and embarked upon an analysis of the Immigration and Naturalisation Act (INA), a law enacted in 1952 over the veto of President Harry Truman.
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"Where there's an abdication of leadership on climate action, I think the courts will have a greater role to play," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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The problem here is that this is a terrible abdication by Congress and it&aposs a great example of what happens when you legislate through litigation.
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Sheikh Hamad handed power in 2013 to Sheikh Tamim in a rare abdication by a hereditary Gulf Arab ruler to try to ensure a smooth succession.
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With leading Democratic presidential candidates proposing tens of trillions of dollars of new federal spending, Republicans' abdication of fiscal conservatism leaves Americans with no responsible party.
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The mysterious discovery comes just days before Hisahito's uncle, Crown Prince Naruhito, is due to ascend the throne, following the abdication of Emperor Akihito this Tuesday.
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This appears to suggest he favors abdication, and it is widely believed that Akihito might hope to appoint his son, Crown Prince Naruhito, who is 56.
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"Millions of animals will continue to suffer each year because of the USDA's abdication of its duty to enforce meaningful organic animal welfare standards," he said.
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The cabinet's draft bill for the Emperor's abdication will now be submitted for both the upper and lower houses of parliament to debate before becoming law.
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Loved is Madonna's first directorial effort since 2011's W.E., which explored King Edward VIII's abdication of the throne to be with American divorcée Wallis Simpson.
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" Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff called it "a terrible abdication of our global leadership when it comes to advocating for people who are the subject of persecution.
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"The majority's abdication comes just when courts across the country, including those below, have coalesced around manageable judicial standards to resolve partisan gerrymandering claims," she wrote.
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Muhammad V's abdication "wasn't a surprise," to many political watchers in the country, says James Chin, Director of the Asia Institute at the University of Tasmania.
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But as of this week, the anticipated abdication of the Saudi king and the rise of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman appears to be on pause.
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N.H.T.S.A.'s deference to industry initiatives in lieu of safety standards represents an abdication of regulatory responsibilities that is unprecedented in the history of the agency.
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"That kind of shaming and denying education and not using things like this as a way of teaching is an abdication of responsibility," he told me.
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Congress's abdication of its responsibilities to protect Americans from this public health crisis is shameful, and that is unlikely to change until after the 85033 elections.
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In Tokyo, Trump plans to greet Crown Prince Naruhito, who will become emperor on May 1, a day after the abdication of his father, Emperor Akihito.
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The former vice president said there was no more telling symbol of Trump's abdication of global leadership than the "empty chair" at the G7 climate talks.
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President Trump's overseas trip marked an abdication of American leadership, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel concluding that Europe can no longer rely on the United States.
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Japan will reveal the name of the country's next era on April 1, as the country prepares for the abdication of Emperor Akihito later this year.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Following are remarks by Japanese Emperor Akihito at his abdication ceremony on Tuesday in the Imperial Palace's Matsu no ma, or Hall of Pine.
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Apathy and cynicism may feel like a very mentally healthy form of acceptance of our collective fate—but these attitudes are actually just abdication of responsibility.
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His bleak, defensive and atypically American vision of pessimism and defeatism was a de facto abdication of America's erstwhile role as undisputed global leader on economic issues.
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The king-father, as he is known, ruled the country for 34 years, gently steering Bhutan out of isolation and towards democracy before his abdication in 2006.
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Doctors scheduled the operation back in June after a regular check-up on Juan Carlos, who retained the title of emeritus King after his abdication in 2014.
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That Trump doesn't seem to care speaks volumes about his utter abdication of the presidency as a beacon of moral leadership to the country and the world.
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"It's an absolute abdication of responsibility by my legislature given the gravity of these offenses and the collateral impact it has on the rest of the community."
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This ceremony, pictured above, was one of nine required before the emperor's abdication on April 30th, which will bring an end to the Heisei ("achieving peace") era.
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According to Harris, the series accurately demonstrates "the strain of the position and dramatic change in King George VI's life created by the Abdication Crisis of 1936".
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"I think that would be a terrible abdication of our global leadership when it comes to advocating for people who are the subject of persecution," Schiff said.
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" And finally, abdication: "Look I feel like I've answered this question a bunch of times… I'm not sure I have much more to say on that here.
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We all know that putting federal funding on "auto-pilot" through massive bills known as continuing resolutions (CRs) are an abdication of the government's most basic responsibilities.
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She announced her abdication in January, and formally signed the papers in April, just in time for Queen's Day, an annual day of celebration in the Netherlands.
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When he wasn't engaging in these behaviors, he was refusing to condemn them -- an example of his abdication of the idea of the President as moral leader.
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Progressivism, in its most exaggerated form, can look like an absence of standards and discipline, and an unhelpful abdication of authority on the part of the teacher.
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China has begun to fill the global power vacuum created by Trump's abdication, while U.S. protectionism allows Xi Jinping to deflect justified criticisms of Beijing's own mercantilism.
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It's unclear when exactly the sultans will choose a new ruler, but the King's abdication is unlikely to trigger any sort of leadership crisis, according to Faruqi.
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There will be plenty of nationwide fanfare around his abdication, and not just because the 83-year-old is ending his royal reign after nearly three decades.
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At the Bush Institute, Susan Schwab, who served as George W. Bush's last trade representative, said failure to pass TPP would mark an abdication of U.S. leadership.
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But breaking the Budget Control Act's spending caps by hundreds of billions of dollars would be a wholesale abdication of their stewardship responsibilities to the American taxpayer.
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One factor that spurred her to finally introduce it this year was the centenary of the abdication of Nicholas II, ending the 300-year-long Romanov dynasty.
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On International Women's Day in 20163, Russian women demonstrated for bread and an end to World War I, and sparked a revolution that forced the czar's abdication.
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He later gave $65 million to Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, a businesswoman whose close relationship with Juan Carlos led to his abdication in 2014, the report added.
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Felipe became king after the abdication of his father, Juan Carlos, in 2014, by which time Mr. Urdangarin had already been cut off from the royal household.
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Mr. al-Hussein said such denials — coupled with the refusal to allow independent monitors into northern Rakhine State — represented an abdication of the country's international legal obligations.
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Felipe became king after the abdication of his father, Juan Carlos, in 2014, by which point Mr. Urdangarin had already been cut off from the royal household.
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Having it return during an election year that began with an impeachment trial is a pointed choice: "Richard II" tells a story about political rebellion and abdication.
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To state what should be obvious, a U.S. decision to enter an international accord consistent with the U.S. Constitution is an expression of sovereignty, not its abdication.
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They validate the years-long sequence of norm-shredding maneuvers by Mitch McConnell and total abdication of congressional oversight responsibilities that have brought us to this point.
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Though constitutionally limited in power, the sultan is nonetheless revered among Malay's Muslim majority and his abdication comes amid considerably larger political upheavals for the southern Asian nation.
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"This is something that has needed to be fixed," said Kenneth Ruoff, head of the Center of Japanese Studies at Portland State University, of the laws on abdication.
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After discussions among experts, parliament in June 2017 enacted a special law to allow Akihito to step down, the first abdication of an emperor in about 200 years.
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Simpson died in Paris at age 89 in 2005, 14 years after the death of Edward, who was ostracized by the royal family after his abdication and marriage.
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"Failing to fill this vacancy would be a shameful abdication of one of the Senate's most essential Constitutional responsibilities," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said in a statement.
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For some conservative Americans, the court ruling represented something more sinister — an abdication of the government's duty to promote heterosexuality as a sexual norm fundamental to American society.
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Secretary Clinton was given not one, but two valid opportunities in March 2011, to get a ceasefire at the outset of the Libya revolution followed by Gaddafi's abdication.
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Its abdication of duty has become increasingly clear with each decision favoring industries that drill, mine, cut, and otherwise exploit the land to the detriment of everyone else.
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Other former officials noted that those critics were not privy to all of the evidence and argued that sitting on it would have been an abdication of duty.
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" She said that while individual companies might need flexibility, "this brazen directive is nothing short of an abject abdication of the E.P.A. mission to protect our well being.
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Carried by 300 stations on three radio networks, the speech attracted the second-biggest audience of the decade, outdone only by the abdication speech of King Edward VIII.
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"A C.E.O. walking out the door just days before he is to appear before Congress is an abdication of his responsibility," said Senator Brian Schatz, Democrat of Hawaii.
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Edward, who became the Duke of Windsor after his abdication, married Ms. Simpson six months later in France, where they spent much of the rest of their lives.
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And while the measure does not require a presidential signature, it comes amid what critics contend has been a decades-long abdication of Congress' authority to declare war.
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"Today's announcement ... is a shameful abdication of our humanity in the face of the worst refugee crisis in history," Jennifer Quigley, of Human Rights First, said in a statement.
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Adam Schefter joined the Dennis and Callahan show on Boston's WEEI today to address his microphone abdication interview with Greg Hardy that aired in its entirety yesterday on ESPN.
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Health concerns have led Japan's Emperor Akihito to address the nation for only the second time in his reign, setting the stage for his possible abdication after 28 years.
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"You have tended to get a complete abdication of oversight during periods of Republican unified government," said Thomas E. Mann, a longtime congressional scholar affiliated with the Brookings Institution.
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Elizabeth, it appears, never wanted to be queen, just as her father — forced onto the throne after the abdication of his brother, Edward VIII — never wanted to be king.
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I think that our decision to enter unlimited engagement in Afghanistan, particularly through the AUMF + Congress' abdication of power + decision-making w/ passage of the AUMF, was a mistake.
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All of this comes at a time when German Chancellor Angela Merkel has confirmed her looming abdication, leaving Europe and liberal internationalism in desperate need of a new champion.
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Emma Davies portrays the Queen Mother, and Gina McKee plays Simpson, in this BBC dramatization, which examines the 1936 abdication crisis through a series of monologues set in 1967.
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"Economists and technocrats on the left bear a large part of the blame," Rodrik writes, in an essay, "The Abdication of the Left," published in July by Project Syndicate.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Emperor Akihito's abdication on Tuesday, one of several ceremonies marking the transition to his heir Crown Prince Naruhito, will be a brief, relatively simple and rare event.
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These are vastly preferable to preprinted "shelf-talkers," with notes and scores from outside critics or periodicals; they suggest a lack of confidence, laziness or abdication of critical responsibilities.
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We do not accept as the "new normal" a politicized, expansive, corrupt, or intentionally divisive executive branch, nor the abdication of tradition and procedure among the other two branches.
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Even before the popular revolt that led to the abdication of Czar Nicholas II, there was a growing sense that the days of old were drawing to an end.
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Tuesday night was the last chance for nostalgic Japanese to bid sayonara to the three-decade Heisei era, which ended at midnight with the abdication of retiring Emperor Akihito.
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That's because issues of abdication and succession within the royal family are at the center of a debate over imperial traditions and how sustainable they are in modern Japan.
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But Edward wouldn't have it, and instead moved to give up the throne for "the woman I love," as he said in his infamous abdication address to the nation.
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Since the 2016 referendum on Europe, the Brexit controversy has divided British society like none other since the conflicts of the 1930s over the abdication and preparing for war.
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This power of the purse, which assumes particular urgency in light of Congressional abdication of its authority to the executive, has generally been seen as a tool of policy.
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The 59-year-old emperor inherited the Chrysanthemum Throne on May 1, a day after the abdication of his father, Akihito, the first monarch to abdicate in two centuries.
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"A one-month break can be pushing it for emotional/personal R&R or intellectually recharging batteries and doing some market research, but six months is abdication," he said.
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Edward's abdication (after which he was known as the Duke of Windsor) put his brother, George VI, on the throne, thus making the present Queen Elizabeth II the heir apparent.
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None of that is happening," says Ivo Daalder, president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and co-author of the forthcoming "The Empty Throne: America's Abdication of Global Leadership.
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Yet when the cabinet of Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, approved a bill last week to allow for the emperor's abdication—just this once, mind you—Japanese ultranationalists were incandescent.
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The issue is back in focus after Emperor Akihito, 82, hinted two months ago at abdication, with only five heirs in the line of succession, including Hisahito, his sole grandson.
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In a speech in October 1999, he said that Heavier supervision and regulation designed to reduce systemic risk would likely lead to the virtual abdication of risk evaluation by creditors.
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Nearly all that will end when his son, Crown Prince Naruhito, becomes emperor on May 1 after Akihito steps down, the first abdication by a Japanese monarch in two centuries.
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Naylor landed a regular column after seeming to predict King Edward the VIII's abdication in a chart he did for the paper in honor of Princess Margaret's birth in 1930.
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"The failure to deal with this swiftly and decisively represents an utter abdication of responsibility by social media companies," Tom Watson, the deputy leader of the UK's Labour Party said.
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Following the controversial Botswana trip, opinion polls slipped to an all time low and 62% of Spaniards called for the abdication of the king, who had previously been extremely popular.
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As Abe's critics pounce on the scandal, key legislative work in the current parliament session could slow, particularly regarding the 2017 budget, labor reform, and Emperor Akihiko's abdication, Seaman flagged.
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Ryan, as I noted yesterday, understands there is a dangerous leadership vacuum in his party caused by Trump's seeming abdication of moral leadership in the wake of the Charlottesville violence.
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Failure by national Democrats to follow their lead, and make all necessary funds available to Jones, will be perceived by much of the base as an abdication of party principles.
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Former President Obama blasted President Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal, calling it an abdication of leadership, moments before his successor made it official.
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The emperor did not use the word "abdication" in his address, and he tried to sound as though the change he was suggesting lay within the bounds of the ordinary.
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Further cuts, prompted both by the House and Senate tax reform proposals as well as the GOP agenda, would be a cruel abdication of our duty to remedy racial injustice.
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Ahead of his abdication in 2014, his popularity took a hit when it emerged he had taken a luxurious hunting trip to Botswana as his country was in financial crisis.
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HONG KONG — The emperor of Japan will step down on April 30, 2019, the first abdication by a Japanese monarch in two centuries, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday.
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They also noted that people had already taken to the streets across the country in 2014 to demand a referendum on the monarchy after King Juan Carlos announced his abdication.
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In remarks to reporters, Mr. Abe's chief cabinet secretary, Yoshihide Suga, declined to comment on the timing of the abdication, although Kyodo News reported that December 2018 was a target.
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Indeed, those who argue that technology has rendered the legislative branch's role in foreign affairs ineffective ignore Congress's willful abdication of its concurrent authority to affect foreign policy over time.
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An abdication law that allows Akihitio to resign was passed without a proposed resolution that potentially questions whether women who marry outside the family have to rescind their royal rights.
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Meanwhile, the Trump administration's abdication of responsibility on climate change means that countries like Indonesia will be less inclined to make the hard decisions essential to radically drawing down emissions.
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Some opponents of the abdication have raised the possibility of disagreement between the old and new emperors, and they fear the next reform could allow a woman to ascend the throne.
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But regardless of which candidate the policy-light tone of coverage helps at any given moment, it represents a fundamental abdication of responsibility to explain to people what is going on.
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The problem with this idea, of course, is that there is no provision for abdication in imperial household law and the Diet (parliament) would have to pass legislation authorizing this change.
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There's some wiggle room where an agency adopts a policy that's "so extreme as to amount to an abdication of its statutory responsibilities," but the case would be a long shot.
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Saudi Arabia has practiced a form of collective leadership since the death of the founder King Abdulazziz in 1953 and especially since the abdication of his son King Saud in 1964.
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"Anything less than a full, complete and successful investigation by WADA … would constitute an abdication of WADA's responsibilities," he wrote in a letter also signed by the board chairman, Edwin Moses.
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The incoherent and poorly defined hiring freeze is a perilous path to manage a federal workforce, and Congress should step in to prevent this abdication of responsibility by the new administration.
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Most of the public seems to be in favor, though: According to a poll by Jiji press, 61 percent of those asked support a permanent law that would allow for abdication.
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"I will do my upmost to ensure that the Emperor's abdication and the ascension of the Crown Prince will proceed smoothly with the blessing of all of our citizens," Abe said.
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Nunes' comments appear to be an abdication of the constitutional role of Congress, to act as an independent branch of government that conducts oversight and serves as a check and balance.
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The emperor's fondness for the weapon can be seen in a poem attributed to him, but a jade seal he used during his abdication might be the emperor's most valuable possession.
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Though, until his death three years later, Qianlong continued to exercise power from behind the scenes, the fact of his abdication was crucial to his subjects' understanding of his dynasty's legitimacy.
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The Trump administration's trade agenda is provoking consternation among veterans of previous administrations, who lament the United States' abdication as a vocal promoter of the gains from free and open markets.
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"The FCC's seeming abdication makes it even more important for the Department of Justice to step up to the plate to block this merger," the Democratic senator said in a statement.
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In 1936, Edward abdicated his role as monarch to marry the American socialite Wallis Simpson; Edward's abdication paved the way for George VI, the reigning Queen Elizabeth's father, to be king.
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Anything less is an abdication of their responsibilities, a betrayal of their promises, and a harbinger that Washington's interests are not the same as the people it is supposed to govern.
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Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said Trump has "completely caved to the gun lobby," and that by "endorsing the gun lobby's platform," he's showing a "shameful abdication" of his responsibility to lead.
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But critics have blasted the decision as an abdication of U.S. leadership, arguing that, by withdrawing from the pact, the U.S. is simultaneously withdrawing from its role as global standard-bearer.
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Their existence was not widely known until 1970, as they were locked away and not treated as part of the Royal Mint museum's collection, because of the sensitivity of Edward's abdication.
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In recent days, progressives — and several 2020 Democratic presidential candidates — had adopted a new, more aggressive tone, suggesting it would be an abdication of responsibility to hold off any longer. Rep.
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Republicans' decision to include only a short-term VAWA reauthorization in the must-pass minibus spending bill is nothing short of an abdication of our responsibilities to women in our country.
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Japanese Emperor Akihito announced his abdication at a palace ceremony Tuesday in his final address, as the nation embraced the end of his reign with reminiscence and hope for a new era.
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Still, investors should cheer the fact that citizens are willing to rid the centuries-old Imperial law regarding abdication, said Ed Rogers, CEO and CIO at wealth management firm Rogers Investment Advisors.
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Unlike when Akihito took the throne as the nation mourned the death of his father Hirohito in January 1989, the abdication means that the transition is taking place in a celebratory mood.
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Since the 1800s, restaurant industry's trade associations have successfully advocated for the abdication of an employer's number one responsibility—to pay workers' wages—by arguing that the guests' tips are wages instead.
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To highlight positive aspects of Monson's personal life at the expense of an unsparing look at his record, as many comments on the petition demand, would be an abdication of journalistic duty.
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The nomenclature may differ depending on the audience — judicial restraint is sometimes pejoratively called abdication, whereas judicial engagement is sometimes pejoratively called activism — but it's the substance underlying those terms which matters.
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The other, much larger wing, including the tower, was built in the 1900s by the Merciai family, which bought it in 1860 after the abdication of the grand duke the previous year.
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Clinton's criticism echoed that of former President Barack Obama and other leaders, who cast the decision to leave the pact as an abdication of the United States' leadership role in the world.
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He is telling them that while the bill may be unpopular, doing nothing on health care would be even more unpopular and would be considered an abdication of responsibility by many voters.
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When Lenin returned from exile to capitalize on the chaos of the czar's abdication, he played to this sense of new beginnings and urged a complete and total rupture with the past.
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Their actions will never deviate too far from their proprietary interests, and while tapping their genius and money is essential, outsourcing too much to them is an abdication of government's singular role.
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For many in the United States, it was the opportunity to see an American royal bride (and one who didn't prompt a throne abdication) that made this a wedding to obsess over.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A special panel to debate the timing of Emperor Akihito's abdication, Japan's first in nearly two centuries, meets on Friday, setting the stage for a formal decision by the government.
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"The Senate's abdication of its legislative and oversight responsibilities erodes the checks and balances of the separate powers that are designed to protect the liberties on which our democracy depends," they write.
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"President Trump's vow to withdraw from the Paris agreement by 85033 was a troubling abdication of that leadership, and it threatened to send a dangerously wrong message," Bloomberg wrote alongside California Gov.
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And with memories of the uproar surrounding the abdication of King Edward VIII to marry a twice-divorced American still fresh, there was intense pressure on Princess Margaret to end the affair.
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The agency's abdication of its mandate to protect consumers underscores the need for state usury laws, which have passed in 16 states and offer the surest path to curtailing debt-trap lending.
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"The DOJ's abdication of its responsibility cannot take this decision away from the courts and we are glad to see the Ninth Circuit use its authority to appoint a private attorney," Florence said.
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The 1917 demonstrations by women demanding "bread and peace" sparked other strikes and protests, which led to the abdication of Czar Nicholas II four days later and granted women the right to vote.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - The formal investiture ceremony for new Japanese Emperor Naruhito began on Wednesday, marking the first time in over 200 years that an emperor has acceded to the throne following an abdication.
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The never-Trumpers are like the Bourbon monarchy, which "had learned nothing and forgotten nothing" (an apocryphal quote from Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord describing the Bourbons' behavior after the abdication of Napoleon).
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Conservatives are furious with Obama and his Justice Department for what they view as an abdication of responsibility in addressing the gang, gun and drug violence that has erupted in some major cities.
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Even so, I have the feeling that the utter loss of self-control is giving her pleasure, the pleasure of abdication, of psychic degeneration, that epileptics are said to have during a fit.
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The new era begins on Wednesday when Crown Prince Naruhito ascends the Chrysanthemum Throne a day after the abdication of his father, Emperor Akihito, brings to an end the 31-year Heisei era.
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An abdication of the American willingness to be the "policeman of the world" creates a vacuum that global rivals such as China and Russia would be all too eager to fill, they say.
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The 1917 demonstrations by women demanding "bread and peace" sparked other strikes and protests, which led to the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II four days later and granted women the right to vote.
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Centred on Amaterasu Omikami, the sun goddess from whom conservatives believe the emperor has descended, the "Daijosai" is the most overtly religious ceremony of the emperor's accession rituals after his father Akihito's abdication.
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This abdication of duty includes failing to address causes of the heavy flooding and intense heat in the Midwest, stronger storms and more wildfires across the nation, and more extreme weather events globally.
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Salvini has emerged in a different context to Berlusconi, one where anti-democratic, illiberal, racist forces are on the rise in Europe and beyond, encouraged by the moral abdication of Trump's United States.
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It is difficult to explain Congress's long-term abdication of authority solely in terms of political interest, since legislators are emptying out the power of the offices they seek to retain and use.
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Juan Carlos, who retained the title of emeritus King after his abdication in 2014, joked with journalists as he was taken away in a car outside the hospital on the outskirts of Madrid.
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The past few generations of the House of Windsor have been dogged by scandals of nearly every variety, from tactless costume choices to explosive divorces and even an unprecedented abdication of the throne.
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"The Senate's abdication of its legislative and oversight responsibilities erodes the checks and balances of the separate powers that are designed to protect the liberties on which our democracy depends," the senators wrote.
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Once the bill — which is expected to pass in Parliament, where Mr. Abe's party has the majority — is enacted, the government would have three years to set a date for the emperor's abdication.
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"From a foreign policy perspective, it's a colossal mistake — an abdication of American leadership," said R. Nicholas Burns, a retired career diplomat and an under secretary of state for President George W. Bush.
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This completes Washington's own perilous journey: In less than one year, it has gone from mobilizing the international community in search of solutions to the migration crisis to a total abdication of leadership.
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Speculation that Muhammad would step down emerged this past week, shortly after he returned from his leave, but Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Friday that he was unaware of any abdication plans.
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We also move forward through the inevitable media circus and court battle, the abdication of responsibility by everyone except the girl's mother, who sags beneath the weight of an irrational yet inexpiable guilt.
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That abdication of responsibility was one of the more galling examples of Republicans and Democrats alike refusing to take a hard line against the dictatorship that has fueled the largest refugee crises in history.
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The new era begins on May 1 when Crown Prince Naruhito ascends the Chrysanthemum Throne a day after the abdication of his father, Emperor Akihito, brings to an end the 31-year Heisei era.
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While no definite plan for an abdication has been confirmed, media have said it will likely take place in late 2018, which would mark nearly 30 full years on the throne for the emperor.
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"It can be and should be seen as a response to the abdication of leadership by the U.S. federal government, which has really created a vacuum for leadership," Burger told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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The current royal household traces its line of succession to the Meiji Restoration in 1868 – and arguably, 2,500 years before that, with the last abdication by a Japanese emperor technically occurring 200 years ago.
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The conservative argument against Chevron deference is that it vests too much authority in the hands of unelected bureaucrats and left-leaning career employees, and is an abdication of the responsibilities of the judiciary.
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Bill Moran's abdication three weeks before he was due to become chief of naval operations, the Pentagon has yet another vacancy to fill with precious few days left before Congress goes on summer break.
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Congress' abdication of its responsibility is highlighted by its refusal to require a background check on all gun sales, even though over 90 percent of Americans, including 80 percent of gun owners, favor it.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A record crowd paid their respects to Japan's 84-year-old Emperor Akihito at Tokyo's Imperial Palace on Saturday, in his first birthday celebration since the date of his abdication was set.
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During the abdication ceremony on Tuesday, which lasted just over 10 minutes, the emperor and empress stood solemnly on a stage in a state room with wood flooring that evoked a high school gymnasium.
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"For those senators to then move forward in overriding the president's veto that would prevent those negative consequences is an abdication of their basic responsibilities as elected representatives of the American people," he said.
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It not only represents an abdication of the US's obligations to aid Central American countries struggling with their own migration crises, but, as my colleague Alex Ward writes, it could actually deepen those problems.
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"Doing anything less would be an abdication of your responsibility to protect and defend the US from this serious threat to our national security, and to the integrity of our electoral process," they wrote.
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That's why Mackie's response seems so disingenuous -- and why feminists in the entertainment industry are particularly angered by Netflix's abdication of responsibility for the disparity between male and female salaries in their premium show.
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It also characterized the split as the "most turbulent time" for the royal family since the 1936 abdication of Prince Edward VIII to marry the American divorcée Wallis Simpson and later move to Europe.
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As a duly elected representative of Brooklyn, it would be an abdication of duty to disregard our painful history of over-policing or to ignore the very real potential of this history repeating itself.
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But their remarkable silence in the face of the president's abject immorality is an abdication of their leadership responsibility, and undermines the credibility of the faith communities to which they have dedicated their lives.
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Akihitio's abdication and the forthcoming marriage of his granddaughter Princess Mako reignited debate about the role women play in Japan's monarchy and whether imperial law should change to allow women to inherit the throne.
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Alex Jennings, the actor who portrayed a marvelously bitchy Duke of Windsor—as Edward was called, following his abdication after an 11-month reign in 1936—for the show's first two seasons, is gone.
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It's this history-altering scandal that Simpson is best remembered for, but she lived for 50 fascinating years after her husband's abdication — and led an equally interesting life before she ever rubbed elbows with royalty.
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Kenya's decision is "an abdication of its duty to protect the vulnerable and will put thousands of lives at risk," said Muthoni Wanyeki, Amnesty's regional director for East Africa, the Horn and the Great Lakes.
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Tweets of condemnation, which appear to be the preferred method of communication for Republican elected officials in the immediate aftermath of Trump's comments Tuesday, feel inadequate to address the scope of Trump's abdication of leadership.
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But, to my mind, the biggest -- and most critical -- difference between Trump and his predecessors is his total abdication of the concept of the president as a moral leader for the country and the world.
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Other conservatives worry devoting political energy to discussing abdication could sidetrack Abe's push to revise the U.S.-drafted pacifist constitution, which many conservatives see as a symbol of Japan's humiliating defeat in World War Two.
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"It's a plain abdication of the Senate's solemn constitutional duty," he said, after weeks of hearing his decades-old remarks used against the Obama administration's push to confirm Judge Merrick B. Garland for the court.
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"It was an institutional failure by the government and a complete abdication of responsibility to enforce the Higher Education Act," said Scott D. Levy, the Houston-based lawyer who represented Mr. Graves in his suit.
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America's continued abdication of any serious leadership role in the climate crisis touched off a series of other high-profile defections from regional and international climate accords that were already insufficient in their target goals.
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Not only would it be social malpractice if German lawmakers fail to collectively support these educational outings, but it would also be an abdication of their responsibility to the German leaders of tomorrow, their children.
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Ms. Markle will be the first American to marry into the royal family since Wallis Simpson, the divorced socialite whose relationship with King Edward VIII triggered a constitutional crisis and prompted his abdication in 1936.
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But the seeming abdication of fact-finding and decision-making to the Saudis gave Democrats a moment to argue that the president was willing to let the Saudi monarchy make decisions for the United States.
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But Palestinians, who hope to see the eastern part of Jerusalem become the capital of a Palestinian state, see the move as an abdication of any vestige of American impartiality in determining the region's future.
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Palestinians, who hope to see the eastern part of Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state, see the embassy move as an abdication of any vestige of American impartiality in determining the region's future.
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Similarly, the decision not to prosecute anyone involved in wrecking the economy was an abdication of justice, one that has led to a continuation of predatory practices that will undoubtedly exacerbate the coming economic downturn.
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This proposal is a Trojan horse—it's presented as good government when what it actually represents is an abdication of the EPA's mission and an open signal to industry that they won't be held accountable.
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"Secretary Mattis represents the last of what we might call the mainstream foreign policy thinkers in the Trump administration," said Jim Lindsay, who recently co-authored the book The Empty Throne: America's Abdication of Global Leadership.
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Based on previous rulings and a left-right coalition of amicus briefs, there may be interest on both ends of the Supreme Court's ideological spectrum for policing abdication of the legislative role to the executive branch.
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Trump is the first foreign dignitary to be received by the monarch since the latter inherited the throne after his father, Akihito, stepped down recently in the first abdication by a Japanese emperor in two centuries.
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With the abdication of their primary creative forces, Fleetwood and McVie soldiered on with guitarists Bob Welch and Bob Weston, as well as the multi-talented Christine McVie, who happened to be married to the bassist.
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The prince, whose elder brother King Philippe, 55, has ruled the nation since their father's abdication in 2013, earlier this month visited Castle Insegotte in Filot, a village more than 60 miles south east of Brussels.
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Nikai's counterpart in the main opposition Democratic Party, former prime minister Yoshihiko Noda, also told the Nikkei business daily recently that parliament should discuss the problem of the shrinking number of royals as well as abdication.
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The idea of abdication has sparked opposition from Abe's conservative base, which worries debate of the imperial family's future could widen to the topic of letting women inherit and pass on the throne, anathema to traditionalists.
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"Republicans' decision to include only a short-term VAWA reauthorization in the must-pass minibus spending bill is nothing short of an abdication of our responsibilities to women in our country," she said in her letter.
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As hyperpartisanship, gridlock and a general abdication of responsibility have rendered Congress increasingly dysfunctional, the judiciary is taking an ever-greater hand in policy areas ranging from immigration to guns to ballot access to worker rights.
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The only thing that ends is the dominion of external powers over the destiny of humankind, an abdication that also eliminates the possibility of a returning savior who retrieves the world from the brink of destruction.
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Of all the facets of our cherished democracy that have begun to erode, few erosions are more horrifying than Congress' abdication of its duty to debate and vote on whether or not we go to war.
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They added that failing to impose sanctions "would be an abdication of your responsibility to protect and defend the US from this serious threat to our national security, and to the integrity of our electoral process."
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For the last 81 years -- ever since the abdication crisis of 1936, when Edward VIII gave up his throne to marry the American divorcée, Wallis Simpson -- getting rid of the monarchy has been a non-starter.
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"There was a clear abdication" on human rights after the summit, said a source who was familiar with the administration's thinking at the time, adding that the omission "makes no sense," given Trump's pitch for denuclearization.
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"This unabashed play to politics is an abdication to participate in representative democracy," McCarthy wrote Tuesday in a letter to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), California Secretary of State Alex Padilla (D) and Gomez.
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This is -- much like Charlottesville -- an abdication of the moral authority of the presidency, but it's more than that: It's saying, quite simply, that saying racist stuff is a-OK as long as it works politically.
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Trump is the first foreign dignitary to be received by the monarch since Naruhito inherited the throne after his father, Akihito, stepped down on April 30, the first abdication by a Japanese emperor in two centuries.
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He became the first foreign dignitary to be received by the monarch since he inherited the throne earlier this month after his father, Akihito, stepped down in the first abdication by a Japanese emperor in two centuries.
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She had gotten off the Agriculture and House Armed Services committees to instead join the Appropriations Committee, which Bright described as an abdication of her responsibilities to a district whose major industries are agriculture and the military.
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Empress Genmei (707 to 715) even put her daughter, Gensho, on the throne after her own abdication, thinking she would make a better monarch than Crown Prince Obito, according to Hitomi Tonomura, a University of Michigan historian.
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The Cartier sapphire-encrusted cigarette case engraved in facsimile of the Duke s hand with the wedding date and the date Wallis stayed with them during the abdication crisis is being sold for an estimated $29,000-$43,500.
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For six decades, Michiko, the popular face of Japan's modern royalty, has largely ceased her public functions, assuming the title of 'Jokogo' or Empress Emerita since her husband's April 30 abdication in favor of the couple's son.
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His abdication thrust his brother, who would become King George VI, onto the throne – making Elizabeth the Queen and setting the stage for the couple's firstborn daughter, the then-Princess Elizabeth, to occupy her current historic reign.
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Companies do need to get ahead of the havoc their innovations can wreak on the world, and they can look good while doing nothing by hiding their own abdication of responsibility on the issue behind the government's.
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A vote for Matthew Kacsmaryk is an abdication of the trust our constituents invest in us, and I hope a majority of our U.S. Senate will embody that trust and vote against this disqualified and dangerous nominee.
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Washington (CNN)The Trump administration is engaged in an "abdication" of US global leadership, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations argued Tuesday night, saying the US "chose to walk away" from key institutions and alliances.
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AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS - APRIL 30: Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Lilianne Ploumen signs the Act of Abdication of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands in the Moseszaal at the Royal Palace on April 30, 2013 in Amsterdam.
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San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera, who spearheaded the ordinance earlier this year, praised the move and said it was necessary because of what he called an "abdication of responsibility" by the FDA in regulating e-cigarettes.
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The trauma of the abdication did, Sebba argues, challenge Britons to accept a new principle: that members of the royal family had the right to pursue their own personal happiness, even when it meant breaking with tradition.
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It's where I returned from covering the Bosnian War — the 100,000 dead, the 2.2 million displaced — and understood the moral abdication of the bystander and the moral imperative of engagement and decency, that word dear to Camus.
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Four sources with royal connections said the move aimed to ensure compliance within the ruling Al Saud family, in which there have been rumblings of discontent, ahead of an eventual succession upon the king's death or abdication.
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That is the standard set by the U.S. Supreme Court for more than a century, but decades of judicial abdication, including by the Supreme Court itself, have left the right of occupational freedom with little real substance.
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The Queen Mum and her husband unexpectedly claimed the throne (following the abdication of Prince Edward over his marriage to American Wallis Simpson) in 1937, and she immediately made it the central duty of her and her family.
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On October 12th the Bangkok stock exchange dropped by 7%, on rumours that his 70-year reign is coming to an end, whether by abdication, death or incapacity (which would allow the crown prince to be declared regent).
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If you were president and had a chance, with 33 months left to go in your term, wouldn't it be an abdication, to conservatives in particular, not to name a conservative justice with the rest of your term?
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Trump is the first foreign dignitary to be received by the monarch since the latter inherited the throne after his father, Akihito, stepped down on April 30 in the first abdication by a Japanese emperor in two centuries.
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The Clinton-centric case is that Warren might overshadow Clinton, will have a worse relationship with her than Kaine, and will introduce liabilities (a threat to big-dollar fundraising, an abdication of the political center) that Kaine won't.
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"I wish that as much attention were given to the [Broward County Sheriff's Office] and their abdication of duty as trying to blame 5 million innocent, law-abiding gun owners all across the country," Loesch said on Sunday.
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To continue to kick the can down the road -- as Congress has done over the last several years -- would be a complete abdication of duty by the lawmakers people in this country have entrusted to fix this problem.
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Whether it's enacting a ban on Muslim travelers, selling arms to Saudi Arabia, or declaring a national emergency to build a border wall, he is more than willing to take advantage of lawmakers' abdication of their own powers.
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"And the idea that we are just going to sit here and twiddle our thumbs week after week as 100 people are killed by guns ... it's an abdication of our basic responsibility as United States senators," he said.
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For Qianlong to outshine his grandfather would have been viewed as immodest, reflecting poorly on the House of Aisin Goro, as well as on the throne itself; his abdication helped to preserve public respect for the imperial office.
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That so many Republicans, while obviously believing Trump unfit on both counts, followed strategic failure with moral abdication and essentially shrugged at his ascent was an indictment of their leadership and a reason to root for their defeat.
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" Democratic senators, led by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, warned in a letter that readmitting Russia would be "contrary to our values and a clear abdication of the United States' responsibilities as the world's leading democracy.
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The refusal of the current U.S. administration to recognize the problem, extending to attempts to suppress congressional reporting on Russian hostile actions, is an abdication of responsibility for mitigating the long-term consequences of failing to deal with Russia.
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Earlier, Akihito performed a ritual announcement of his abdication in three palace sanctuaries, including one honoring the sun goddess Amaterasu Omikami, from whom mythology says the imperial line is descended, and two others for departed emperors and Shinto gods.
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She said it was replaced in the governor's office with "Abdication of Dom Pedro," a more anodyne painting depicting the decision of the first ruler of the Empire of Brazil to step down in 1831 and return to Europe.
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The Queen Mum and her husband unexpectedly claimed the throne (following the abdication of Prince Edward over his marriage to American divorcée Wallis Simpson) in 1937, and she immediately made it the central duty of her and her family.
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"Allowing indigenous groups to decide how and whether they apply the law is simply an abdication of the state's responsibilities," says Sonia Montaño, a former head of gender affairs at the Economic Comission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Larger states that are better demographic representations of our nation should no longer tolerate playing second fiddle to states that are a fraction of their size and are far less impacted by federal government overreach and abdication of responsibilities.
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Some African-American critics assailed his delay in speaking out after the killing of Trayvon Martin in Florida, at the hands of a resident, calling it an abdication of Mr. Obama's responsibility as a president and a black man.
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Presidents of both parties over the years have taken advantage of a congressional abdication of responsibility in this regard and seized for themselves the right to start wars, even in the absence of any imminent threat to our country.
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But Democrats and advocates denounced her decision as a tacit endorsement of federally funded firearms in schools, and federal policy experts saw the move as an abdication of the department's core function to help districts navigate the federal bureaucracy.
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Some American officials suspect that Prince Mohammed may be rushing to lock down the levers of power in anticipation of a formal abdication by his father, King Salman, who scholars and Western officials say could be suffering from dementia.
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The episodes cover everything from King Edward VIII's abdication; to Queen Elizabeth II's rise as a young sovereign; to the marriage and divorce of Prince Charles and Diana; to the status of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex today.
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A few examples: Everyone involved should be ashamed ... keep your children far away ... a painful viewing experience ... A demonstration of artistic abdication at its most venal ... dunked in toxic ooze ... Do Not See This Movie ... I could go on.
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"To the people who accepted and supported me as a symbol, I express my heartfelt thanks," Akihito, wearing a Western-style morning coat, said at a brief abdication ceremony in the Imperial Palace's Matsu no ma, or Hall of Pine.
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This is a horrendous abdication of responsibility — both by legislators who have given up doing their jobs and by citizens who tacitly give up the task of reforming the legal frameworks governing our possession and use of weapons of war.
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The history-shaking controversy surrounding Edward's abdication, as fans of The Crown will attest, has never been forgotten by Queen Elizabeth, who was just 10 when her uncle stepped aside — paving the way for her own ascension to the throne.
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"That interpretation represents an appalling abdication of federal enforcement responsibility, inconsistent with the law and with courts' interpretation of the law, and totally lacking in human compassion for children in school, whom the Department is charged to protect," she said.
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A lawsuit pending appeal with the state Supreme Court alleges the growing segregation in Minnesota's schools denies an adequate education to poor and minority kids and is the logical and illegal conclusion of the state's abdication of its responsibility to integrate.
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Think of all the monochromes you have seen in recent years, from Lucien Smith's "Rain Paintings" to Bill Jensen's "Dark Dragon Pools," and you get an idea of how many artists still try to pass off this commonplace abdication as radical.
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The abdication law, which applies only to Akihito and not to future emperors, included a resolution to debate letting female royals stay in the imperial family after marriage but did not touch on the controversial topic of allowing women to inherit.
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Asahi said the expected 2019 abdication schedule would minimize the impact on people in changing to a new imperial reign from the current Heisei Era, which started in 1989 after the death of Akihito's father Hirohito, according to the Asahi.
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See, the idea that you can't change public opinion, that the job of Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer is not to lead public opinion in a direction, seems to be ... But there's never been a ... ... a complete abdication of responsibility.
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"President Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement is an abdication of American leadership and an international disgrace," Sanders said in a statement amid reports that Trump would back out of the 195-nation agreement.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - In Japan, every emperor's era has its own name - appearing in places such as coins, official paperwork and newspapers - and with abdication coming at the end of April, speculation is swirling about what the new "gengo" will be.
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William warned the British virtue of the stiff upper lip could damage mental health - a departure from the royal family's traditional stoic attitude amid crises ranging from the 1936 abdication of King Edward VIII to the death of Princess Diana.
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So too did political controversies, like turning up in person to instruct the police during a violent street battle with anarchists, defying John Maynard Keynes in returning Britain to the gold standard or rashly supporting Edward VIII during the abdication crisis.
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Presumably, they feared that allowing his abdication might appear as though the will of the emperor was contravening the laws that govern imperial succession — thus violating the Constitution, which states that the emperor has no power over affairs of state.
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Instead the political abdication of the Congress, the steady atrophy of legislative power and flight from legislative responsibility, means that America is increasingly governed by negotiations between the imperial presidency and whichever philosopher-king has the swing vote on the court.
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But with public pressure mounting to allow women to reign, the shrinking size of the imperial household — and the dwindling number of male heirs — has pushed the question of the role of royal women to the forefront of the abdication debate.
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There are many reasons for the crisis, but the most striking among them, according to the authors, is America's abdication of its role as the leading defender of freedom and democracy, which is giving even more momentum to the dangerous trend.
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There has been widespread speculation in Malaysia that Sultan Muhammad's abdication was part of an effort by the sultans to protect the integrity of the monarchy in the wake of his alleged recent marriage to a former Miss Moscow in Russia.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese expressed warmth and gratitude toward Emperor Akihito ahead of his abdication on Tuesday, but judged his three-decade Heisei era as a period of difficulty and transition for Japan after the economic boom and confidence of the 1980s.
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Ross Garber, who has defended four governors in impeachment proceedings, wrote that Pelosi's focus on an eventual criminal case is an abdication of the House's constitutional responsibility, and is just one of what he called her "weird (and wrong)" views on the topic.
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"That breakdown of comity in the United States Senate, that abdication of the basic responsibility of members of the Unites States Senate, by subjecting it to such intense partisanship and actually allowing partisanship, to supersede the constitutional obligation, it's discouraging," Earnest told reporters.
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The abdication issue could distract from the constitutional changes being championed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition and spur a debate over Japan's succession, including if women should be allowed to ascend to the Chrysanthemum Throne, the world's oldest hereditary monarchy.
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"The repeal of net neutrality — and more importantly, the abdication of the FCC's duty to protect consumers and competition in the broadband market — ensure that AT&T will have carte blanche to discriminate in favor of the video content it owns," says Sohn.
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Once revered as a living God, the Japanese emperor became a ceremonial figure in Japan's constitutional monarchy after World War II. Should the long-serving Akihito step down it would mark the first abdication of the nation's monarch in about 200 years.
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"Circumstances surrounding an emperor, such as age difference from a successor, political and social conditions and the people's thinking, can change variously," the panel report said in mentioning one of the potential problems for setting up a permanent legal framework for abdication.
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"Pulling out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in 2012 was not only an abdication of leadership, but it also cost us millions of dollars that could have been used to increase energy efficiency and improve air quality in our communities," Murphy added.
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At that time, the Polish historian Dariusz Stola protested against the abdication of responsibility: "If neither groups of nor individual Polish citizens had anything to do with these crimes, then why all the ado about the iniquities of the Communist regime?" he asked.
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Frank Bruni The story of the past year, beginning with an inaugural speech of darker bile and greater bunk than any in my lifetime, has been the abdication and outsourcing of the moral authority that the presidency of the United States once had.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Emperor Naruhito formally took up his post on Wednesday a day after the abdication of his father, saying he felt a "sense of solemnity" but pledging to work as a symbol of the nation and the unity of its people.
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WM: But it seems to me that it's a real moral abdication to allow Sean Spicer to get the last laugh not of the administration, but on Melissa McCarthy, who is sitting in the audience...her job with that role is done.
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Lawrence A. Pezzullo, an American diplomat who in 21944 negotiated the abdication of Anastasio Somoza DeBayle as leader of Nicaragua and the demise of the dictatorial dynasty that had led the country with Washington's sponsorship for four decades, died on Wednesday in Baltimore.
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On it, they charted the official appointments and engagements of George VI and Queen Elizabeth — the parents of the current Queen Elizabeth II. The date is the day after the abdication of Edward VIII and it goes through the king's whole reign.
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Immelt's call echoed that of former President Barack Obama and other leaders who said Trump's decision marked an abdication of government leadership and argued that companies and state and local governments would have to step up to the plate on climate change.
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The former emperor of Germany and king of Prussia, Wilhelm II, Kaiser Bill of World War I legend, has, as the novel begins, lived an orderly life at Doorn for 20 years, having fled to the Netherlands after his abdication in 1918.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's parliament on Friday passed a law allowing Emperor Akihito to abdicate, clearing the way for the first abdication by a Japanese monarch in nearly two centuries and the accession of his son, Crown Prince Naruhito, probably late next year.
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"Abdication will take place for the first time in 200 years, reminding me once again of how important an issue this is for the foundation of our nation, its long history, and its future," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters after the vote.
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Now the government has to hammer out the details of the abdication, including the timing, but media reports have said it is likely to take place at the end of 2018, which would mark three decades on the Chrysanthemum throne for Akihito.
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Given that Google is a mammoth company setting precedent in the realms of data privacy and transparency, these petty hecklings over supposed partisan favoritism represent a deep abdication of the work that public servitude is supposed to embody, namely consumer protection and anti-monopoly legislation.
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Both Sachs and Clark said the problem lay not with a lack of solutions to the world's ills - whether using clean energy or getting basic services to those in need - but governments' abdication of responsibility toward citizens, many of whom are trying to push ahead.
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While there was every indication that the bill would be enacted into law in pretty much the form desired by its chief sponsor, Mr. Roosevelt, the non-interventionists in Congress promptly labeled it a declaration of war and a call for the ''abdication'' of Congress.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Emperor Akihito is likely to abdicate at the end of March 2019 and Crown Prince Naruhito is expected to ascend the throne in April, the first abdication by a Japanese monarch in nearly two centuries, the Asahi newspaper reported on Friday.
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"Any Administration action to waive or cap RINs will be viewed as nothing less than a declaration of war on rural America and a complete abdication of his repeated promises to protect the RFS," said the letter, orchestrated by the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association.
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Japan earlier this year enacted a law clearing the way for Akihito, to step down, clearing the way for the first abdication by a Japanese monarch in nearly two centuries and the accession of his son, Crown Prince Naruhito in late 2018 early 2019.
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He can select an ideologue to succeed Mattis -- a lap dog, someone who shares Trump's disdain for alliances, diplomacy, strategy and multi-lateral institutions, someone who will not challenge his thinking, someone comfortable with the further abdication of American leadership on the world stage.
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" Ms. Farrow, whose own first novel, "Hush," will be published in the fall by Wednesday Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press, also criticized the publisher for not contacting her for fact-checking, which she called "an egregious abdication of Hachette's most basic responsibility.
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Unlike several prominent far-right backers who denounced Thursday's air strikes in Syria , most of the Trump voters interviewed in Texas, Florida and New York on Friday said the attack was not an abdication of his commitment to put U.S. interests above all others.
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"(Blaming the EU for a no-deal) would be an abdication of responsibility of huge and historic proportions and an approach for which Theresa May and the Tory party would pay a very heavy political price, especially in Scotland, which overwhelmingly rejected Brexit," she added.
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But don't mistake a few rounded corners for an abdication of its mission: The 2020 Defender still promises to wriggle, wrestle, and wade its way through whatever challenge you can find, and it's brought some new, high-tech tricks to do it better than ever.
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McCain has waged it in public remarks since Trump's election, including a speech in Philadelphia last October, when he pushed back against the "half-baked, spurious nationalism" that was gripping too many Americans and lamented the abdication of America's moral leadership in the world.
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"Congressional Republicans' hypocritical acquiescence to President Trump's executive orders is an abdication of their responsibility to govern, especially in light of their vocal opposition to even the most restrained use of executive authority by President Obama," said Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the Democratic leader.
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But Zinke's apparent mandate to stop talking about the impacts of climate change on our national parks is an outright abdication of his duty to protect and manage the irreplaceable public lands and historical sites in his care — places that belong to all of us.
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At the beginning of her reign, her sister, Princess Margaret, was denied the chance to pursue marriage with a divorced commoner because of factors ranging from the Royal Marriages Act to the trauma of Edward VIII's abdication to marry twice-divorced American, Wallis Simpson.
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President-elect Donald Trump's unfocused Twitterization of complex issues, coupled with the extremism of Vice President-elect Mike Pence, could result in the total abdication of the United States' leading role in global women's health and rights — abandoning millions of vulnerable women and families.
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Indeed, if states stay below 6 percent, they enjoy a safe harbor from any federal enforcement action, and, as a consequence, CMS barely looks at these state tax programs, according to the GAO report, which severely criticized CMS for this abdication of its oversight responsibility.
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That was almost exactly one year after Obama warned that he was prepared to bomb Assad if he used chemical weapons, only to back away at the last minute in what many allies saw as a key abdication of US credibility in the region.
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Nonfiction THE EMPIRE AND THE FIVE KINGS America's Abdication and the Fate of the World By Bernard-Henri Lévy GULLIBLE SUPERPOWER U.S. Support for Bogus Foreign Democratic Movements By Ted Galen Carpenter The American foreign policy establishment is two years into a prolonged existential crisis.
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" At Gizmodo, Charlie Jane Anders captured the movie's true despair, stating, "Gods of Egypt feels like such an abdication of story, and such a bastardization of culture, that the only sane response is to abandon sanity, and enlist in the murder-police of the senseless new era.
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Elizabeth doesn't necessarily choose to be the killjoy of the realm, but she feels she has no choice: She's ever mindful of that 1936 calamity, the Duke of Windsor's abdication, and she's constantly being kept in line by the row of pecking ducks who are her elders.
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Prime Minister Abe acknowledged the seriousness of the emperor's comments about his age and the burden of his duties and stressed the need to think about what might be done, though without addressing abdication, specifically to avoid implying that the emperor spoke to a political issue.
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During the ten-minute abdication ceremony, Prime Minister Abe will make a formal announcement and Akihito will give his final address as Emperor, though he retains his title until midnight when transition from the Heisei ("peace-making") era to the newly named Reiwa era ("beautiful harmony") begins.
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That Republicans in this Congress have proven so subservient to — or scared of — Trump that they have let the fate of the country hinge on whether his staff can adequately distract and calm him is a subversion of the constitutional order and an abdication of responsibility.
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Thanks to an enlightened policy of early abdication by the baby's grandfather (who as a 50 year old handed over the throne in 2006 to the current monarch, his son King Jigme, now 36), the way seems clear for continued progress towards greater democracy and prosperity.
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With the arrests of eleven princes and some 200 tycoons in Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made clear that he will resort to any means necessary to solidify his ascent to power upon the death or abdication of his 81-year-old father, King Salman.
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Pundits and politicians claimed on the one hand that the U.S. withdrawal was a disaster and an abdication of world leadership, and then in the next breath asserted that the agreement would remain strong and that withdrawal would only hurt the U.S. That's inconsistent on its face.
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A resolution added to the Emperor's abdication bill last June called for the government to begin deliberating succession issues, including the option of princesses establishing new branches of the family after they marry a commoner, allowing new members to take on the duties of the imperial family.
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Five years after his abdication, Juan Carlos was planning to accompany his son, King Felipe VI, at the Armed Forces Day in Seville in June — but his son and his daughter-in-law, Queen Letizia, reportedly decided against it, believing it was not a good idea.
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Quoting from Simpson's letters, Sebba suggests that she tried to squirm out of her relationship with King Edward VIII, whom she viewed with a sort of maternal pity, but he was so infatuated that she could only watch as he hurtled toward his abdication in 1936.
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President Trump's vow to withdraw from the Paris agreement by 4003 was a troubling abdication of that leadership, and it threatened to send a dangerously wrong message: that we are abandoning the pledge we made in Paris to reduce emissions at least 26 percent by 2025.
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He wrote in his letter to Cardinal Brandmüller that "Out of this conflation a new agitation is gradually being generated," which he said could inspire more books like "The Abdication," by Fabrizio Grasso, which argues that having one or more popes emeriti could fragment papal authority.
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With the near-complete abdication of even minimal moral courage in the Republican Party, and the strategic confusion of the Democrats, all that Americans can turn to is the instinct for shared defiance, and a coalition of conscience, the broader the better, to counter the chaotic cruelty.
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Townsend was recently divorced, and, as viewers saw in The Crown, the pain of Edward VIII's abdication (and marriage to a divorcée, Wallis Simpson) was too raw for the royals to even consider agreeing to let Princess Margaret, then third in line to the throne, marry him.
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The many esteemed British character actors who didn't board the SS Harry Potter seem to have ended up here instead, padding about privileged surroundings, brooding over the 1936 abdication and warning young Lilibeth that she mustn't be a big silly and do the things she wants to do.
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However, in a big concession to the Democratic Party (DP), Prime Minister Abe did allow the additional resolution to be attached to the abdication bill, paving the way for the creation of female-led branches of the family that could potentially take on a share of the royal duties.
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If, as The New Yorker's legal writer Jeffrey Toobin put it, President Donald Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey was "a grave abuse of power," Republican congressional leaders, nearly all rank-and-file members, and senior administration officials are engaging in a similarly grave abdication of it.
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Yes in this moment of presidential abdication, Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE has stepped in to act as a real President.
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On the heels of the huge 20163 riots, and the police and National Guard killings that followed them, the upheavals of 22016 included the Tet offensive, the abdication of a president and the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, police shootouts with Black Panthers, the assassination of the Rev.
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The report of the planned abdication comes just three days after the Liberal Democratic Party of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and its allies won a commanding victory in parliamentary elections, capturing two-thirds of the seats in the upper house, the amount required to initiate a constitutional revision.
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"With the current circumstances,with the abdication of responsibility that we've seen from so many powerful people,even people who abdicate that responsibility by calling themselves liberal or a democrat,or whatever it is, I feel a need for all of us to breathe fire" @AOC #MLKnow pic.twitter.
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La Tribune wrote last week that Juan Carlos, who was king at the time, received $100 million dollar from Saudi Arabia's king 12 years ago, and later gave $65 million to Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, a businesswoman whose close relation with Juna Carlos led to his abdication in 2014.
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Picturing the First World War It had come to this: His Imperial Majesty Nicholas II, Emperor of All Russia, perched despondently on a tree stump under armed guard outside the palace at Tsarskoye Selo, where he had been detained by the provisional government after his abdication in March.
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Royal commentators said it amounted to an "abdication" from the "firm" - as the royals are known - and showed that, under the warm words in which she said Harry and Meghan were much loved, the queen had taken a firm and decisive line by insisting on a clean break.
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Mr. Daalder and James M. Lindsay also have a forthcoming book, "The Empty Throne: America's Abdication of Global Leadership," describing the impact of what they consider the greatest shift in American foreign policy since the retreat from Europe after World War I. Like Mr. Kagan, they see dire consequences.
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