abdicate

deposition

drop

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A drop in standards should not be allowed.

Despite satisfactory economic growth, the drop in unemployment is stagnating.

Any violations should be penalised by a drop in financial support.

I saw the value of my cattle drop to virtually nothing.

Conjuring tricks are performed: money appears and disappears at the drop of a hat.

give way

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Another topic may simply have to give way.

In the end it is the theoretical expert who must give way to practice.

To confuse them would be to give way to populist rhetoric.

grant

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To grant discharge is, when all is said and done, to grant a certificate of good management.

We shall therefore grant the discharge.

Germany has virtually ceased to grant asylum.

We refused to grant it any aid.

We are prepared to grant discharge under these conditions.

submit

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I will probably submit a text on this matter myself.

We can submit motions for this together with you.

I will not submit any further proposals on this matter.

Please submit to us a specific plan of action and a schedule.

Few citizens, however, are aware that they may submit a petition.

abandon

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But we must not abandon political responsibility.

We must, for example, abandon coeducation in some matters.

We have to abandon the emphasis on domestic action.

Both on ethical and scientific grounds, we must abandon cannibalism.

So we should maintain this balance here and certainly not abandon it.

accommodate

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It was uncommonly difficult to accommodate everyone.

I advocate a sufficient degree of flexibility to accommodate short - term economic conditions.

We must find ways in each case, as it arises, to accommodate both these principles.

For that too, a proper system will need to be developed to accommodate this.

Its borders are set not by how may countries want to join, but by how many countries it can accommodate.

assign

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Lacking a legal basis, it is clearly not possible to assign a specific budget line for sport.

cede

desert

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25776 It had become desert land.

If they did not it would be a wilderness, a desert, chaos.

I am thinking particularly of areas where the desert is literally burying the productive land.

23632 This is equivalent to waiting for rain in the desert and then one drop falling every square kilometre.

forgo

forsake

give up

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We must give up this habitual way of thinking.

21421 Parliament cannot and will not give up its rights of codecision.

It can, nonetheless, be a painful process to give up dossiers on which one has been working.

It would be better to give up the idea of a directive rather than establish such a time limit.

Results to date are admittedly not too promising but we must not give up.

leave

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You will leave here today wiser and the only thing we would like is to leave more informed.

We challenged them and asked them to leave; we got the security people to ask them to leave.

I just leave that as a question mark.

We cannot leave it simply to governments.

We cannot leave them to struggle alone.

let oneself go

open up

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We should open up negotiations with them.

European railways therefore need to open up urgently and without fear.

His symbolic presence here could open up prospects for the overall policy which we are pursuing.

We wish to see biotechnology as an opportunity that will open up new dimensions in science.

When we open up the doll we find new dolls inside.

quit

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13122 All we shall achieve by adopting them is to make businesses quit the system.

renounce

resign

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Some resign themselves to this state of affairs, and others are delighted at it, but not us.

That of course does not mean that we must resign ourselves to it.

Faced with these, we democrats cannot resign ourselves to the peace of the dead.

Apartheid is only unchangeable if we resign ourselves to it and we must therefore not do so.

yield

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This debate must yield results.

Moreover, such markets also yield new employment.

There are huge differences in yield, quality and requirements.

22120 It would also seem to be better than imposing sanctions that do not yield anything.

Here we can see how small changes can yield considerable results in practice.