Dunkelman’s assessment is that people focus most of their time and attention on the inner and outer rings, while relinquishing those middle-ring connections that are fundamental to strengthening local communities, encouraging debate and cultivating compromise.

No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

They will never relinquish power willingly.

I would rather die than relinquish my virginity before marriage.

He had qualified as a doctor but early relinquished the profession of medicine, and lived at home while pursuing literary ambitions; though his verses never had any marked success.

He had qualified as a doctor but early relinquished the profession of medicine.

Power is a drug which few ever manage to relinquish.