Word: relinquish
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...international community to “contribute greatly,” calling on the U.N. to “assist” the United States in drawing up an Iraqi constitution, training civil servants and overseeing elections. But he pointedly—and unwisely—refused to relinquish U.S. control of Iraq and make way for U.N. control of the reconstruction, stabilization and democratization of the country...
...when it had become clear that Nixon would not obey the court order to relinquish the tapes, Cox threatened to ask a federal court to hold Nixon in contempt...
...magazine was recently threatened with legal action and the possibility of having to relinquish the name “H Bomb” because a Costa Mesa, Calif.-based company named H-Bomb Films feared being associated with the Harvard magazine’s nude content, McLoughlin said...
...trained lawyer, vowed to reclaim all of the fractured country's provinces and spread democracy over a unified Georgia. Since then, relations between Tbilisi and Batumi have been tense. Ajaria has been running its own affairs since the Soviet era, but Abashidze refused to recognize Saakashvili's authority or relinquish his control of the region's oil or his private army...
...human face to it: that of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. By being the practical-minded swing vote on the court, she has quietly become one of the most influential people in the U.S. and, at age 74, has let friends know that she has no plans to relinquish that role...