By August 2004, a report by the Australian Center for Independent Studies suggested that Nauru might consider relinquishing its independent status in favor of becoming an Australian territory.

On May 9 a peace treaty was signed in Tokyo, with the French being coerced by the Japanese into relinquishing their hold on the disputed territories.

Angered by this, Ralph considers relinquishing his position, but is convinced not to do so by Piggy.

As the cup holders, Feijenoord participated in the 1970 – 71 European Cup despite relinquishing the Dutch title, which was won by Ajax.

Clare Downham suggests that during this period, Wulfstan may have been pressurized by King Eadred into relinquishing his support of Eirik.

During his term as governor, he attracted a lot of publicity by allegedly fighting the payment of super-salaries to public servants, whom he labeled marajás ( maharajas ) ( likening them to the former princes of India who received a stipend from the government as compensation for relinquishing their lands ).

The passage of the ordinance, which ceded all unsettled lands to the federal government and established the public domain, followed the relinquishing of all such claims over the territory by the states.

152, 27 June 1917, commenting on the King having ordered the relinquishing of the German titles held by members of his family

Neither the Instrument of Abdication signed by Edward VIII on 10 December 1936, nor the enabling legislation entitled Abdication Act of 11 December 1936, indicated whether the king was renouncing the privileges of royal birth as well as relinquishing the throne.

There isn't any record of Mr. Hewes ever relinquishing his Quaker membership nor is there any evidence that he was disowned by any Friends Monthly Meeting.

George V responded to this by changing the name of the Royal House from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to the House of Windsor and relinquishing all Germanic titles belonging to royals who were British citizens.

" In the year 1260, ' a controversy arose between the monks of the Isle of May and Sir John of Dundemore, relative to the lands of Turbrech, in Fife, which, after many altercations, was settled by Sir John relinquishing all claim to the lands ; in consideration of which the prior and monks granted him a monk to perform divine service in the chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Isle of May, for his soul, and the souls of his forefathers and successors.

On the other hand, there has been no official announcement by the Syrians relinquishing their rights of sovereignty.

And in relinquishing such an attachment to compounded phenomena, such a person gives up delight, desire and craving for compounded phenomena and is unbounded by its change.

Against the Minnesota Wild in the next round, the Canucks were eliminated by relinquishing a three-to-one series lead of their own.

In Soviet Armenia, Sergei Parajanov's The Color of Pomegranates where Georgian actress Sofiko Chiaureli plays five different characters, and which was banned by Soviet authorities, and also long unavailable in the west, was praised by critic Mikhail Vartanov as " revolutionary " Unlike the more action-oriented Jesse James films of the past, Dominik's unconventional epic, perhaps more accurately, details the outlaw's relinquishing psyche during the final months of his life as he finds himself succumbing to the paranoia of being captured and developing a rather precarious friendship with his eventual assassin, Robert Ford.

They were not however permitted to join the Organisation for the Maintenance of Supplies ( OMS ), a group established by the government and chaired by Lord Hardinge in order to mobilise a non-striking workforce in the event of general strike without first relinquishing any explicit attachment to fascism as the government insisted this group remain non-ideological.

Brent was reappointed to the position seven times by Jefferson and three times by James Madison, finally relinquishing the position in June 1812.

Part of the settlement agreement consisted of Albino relinquishing all royalties to recordings made by Los Panchos and a stipulation for him never to record or perform any of the group's songs.

In the same year, he and his lady Isabel had a controversy with the Prior and Convent of Belvoir, relative to the right of presentation to the Church of Redmile ( near Bottesford ), which was amicably compromised by their relinquishing the patronage to the convent, for a certain compensation.

After a period of hostilities, Mauritania withdrew from the territory in 1979 and signed a peace treaty with the Polisario relinquishing all claims to the territory.

This boundary dispute was settled in agreements signed in 2002 that would cede 1, 000 km² of Pamir mountain range to China in return for China relinquishing claims to 28, 000 km² of Tajik lands.

The Treaty of Utrecht resulted in the relinquishing of French claims to mainland Acadia, the Hudson Bay and Newfoundland colonies, and the establishment of the colony of Île Royale ( Cape Breton Island ) as the successor to Acadia.

The Treaty of Utrecht resulted in the relinquishing of French claims to mainland Acadia, the Hudson Bay and Newfoundland, and the establishment of the colony of Île Royale ( Cape Breton Island ) as the successor to Acadia.

Child abandonment is the practice of relinquishing interests and claims over one's offspring with the intent of never again resuming or reasserting them.

In addition to ceding Florida to the United States, the treaty settled a boundary dispute along the Sabine River in Texas and firmly established the boundary of U. S. territory and claims through the Rocky Mountains and west to the Pacific Ocean, in exchange for the U. S. paying residents ' claims against the Spanish government up to a total of $ 5, 000, 000 and relinquishing its own claims on parts of Texas west of the Sabine River and other Spanish areas under the terms of the Louisiana Purchase.

The Colony of Virginia chose the larger interpretation, and the Commonwealth of Virginia continued to claim much of the Ohio Valley and beyond until after the American Revolution, relinquishing its claims to the Northwest Territory only in 1784.

In the context of a larger agreement between Napoleonic France and Spain, the Bourbons of Parma were compensated for the loss of their territories in Northern Italy, which had been occupied by French troops since 1796: in return for Ferdinand, Duke of Parma relinquishing his claims, his son Louis I was compensated with the Kingdom of Etruria, a new kingdom created out of the old Grand Duchy of Tuscany.

Spain then reversed course, relinquishing its claims to Louisiana, and the territory passed into U. S. control two months later.

# " This is the noble truth of the cessation of dukkha: it is the remainderless fading away and cessation of that same craving, the giving up and relinquishing of it, freedom from it, nonreliance on it.

She acquiesces to the pressure of torture at the hands of her oppressors, and agrees to sign a confession relinquishing the truth behind her voices, so that she can live a life in permanent confinement without hope of parole.

Cases which raise serious questions of interpretation and application of the European Convention on Human Rights, a serious issue of general importance, or which may depart from previous case law can be heard in the Grand Chamber if all parties to the case agree to the Chamber of the Court relinquishing jurisdiction to the Grand Chamber.

He served in the British Army as a subaltern in the Northamptonshire Yeomanry, but suffered shell shock, which led to his relinquishing his commission in May 1916.

However, midway through the 2004 season ( a season in which the Tigers only managed 4 wins, and lost their last 14 H & A matches ), Frawley announced he would be relinquishing his role as the Tiger coach at seasons ' end.

After relinquishing control of the firm, Hart-Davis concentrated on writing and editing, producing collections of letters and other works which brought him the sobriquet " the king of editors.

He inherited his father's baronetcy and estate in Northamptonshire in 1833 which under the terms of his inheritance should have led to him relinquishing Glyndebourne, but as a lunatic he was unable to do so.

After the 2003 elections, Davíð Oddsson and the leader of his coalition party, Halldór Ásgrímsson, Minister of Foreign Affairs, agreed that Davíð should remain Prime Minister until 15 September 2004, at which time Halldór would become Prime Minister, and that the Independence Party would, in exchange for relinquishing the Prime Minister ’ s post, gain an additional ministry in the government from its partner.

A struggle for leadership between the Geonim and Exilarchs saw the slow relinquishing of power to the Geonim but remained an office of reverence to which Muslims showed respect.

Although there were senior management changes, which included David relinquishing the Chief Executive's role to Dino Adriano and becoming Non-Executive Chairman, there were no new directors or outsiders appointed to the senior management team.

This excessive soppiness is wedded to an impressive degree of self-centered idealism, which for nearly the entire course of the saga keeps her from being wedded to anyone else ; at the end of Jeeves and the Tie that Binds she is re-engaged to Roderick Spode and may be presumed to be on her way to becoming the next Countess of Sidcup, as long as he does not make the error of relinquishing his title or speaking ill of Winnie the Pooh.

On the grounds of the estate was a large manor house, which contained the reception offices, including rooms for undressing and for relinquishing valuables.

The tribes involved were so bitterly opposed to the terms of the plan that Isaac I. Stevens governor and superintendent of Indian affairs for the Territory of Washington, and Joel Palmer, superintendent of Indian affairs for Oregon Territory, signed the Nez Perce Treaty in 1855 which granted the Nez Perce the right to remain in a large portion of their own lands in Idaho, Washington and Oregon Territories, in exchange for relinquishing almost 5. 5 million acres of their approximately 13 million acre homeland to the U. S. government for a nominal sum, with the caveat that they be able to hunt, fish and pasture their horses etc.

The constitution also details a number of disqualifications in Article 63, which include mental instability, insolvency, criminal conviction and accepting dual-citizenship or relinquishing their Pakistani nationality, among others.

Following these events, Charles the Bald in 845 signed a treaty with King Pippin II of Aquitaine whereby he recognized him as king of Aquitaine, in exchange of which Pippin II was relinquishing the northern part of Aquitaine ( county of Poitiers ) to Charles the Bald.

On 22 December 1988, Pik Botha signed the tripartite agreement involving Angola, Cuba and South Africa at United Nations headquarters in New York City which led to the implementation of Security Council Resolution 435, and to South Africa's relinquishing control of Namibia after decades of defiance.

Today, the California Transportation Commission is relinquishing the street-running parts of Route 2 to local cities which it runs through.

Trulli had qualified 2nd, but both he and Glock faded to 6th and 8th respectively at the finish, Glock relinquishing the vital fifth place to Lewis Hamilton on the final lap, which was enough for the McLaren driver to seal the world title by a point from local hero and race winner Felipe Massa.

Before relinquishing power, an amnesty law was passed, which prevented most members of the military from being prosecuted by the subsequent regime.