And in Indonesia what we saw is a military that had to relinquish power.
However, the point of similarity with Kosovo, was that giving in did not require Saddam to relinquish power altogether.
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On Sunday, President Barack Obama, seeing the end is near, told Gadhafi it was time to relinquish power.
O'Brien said Swift should relinquish power to Secretary of State Bill Galvin.
Pressed already by secular forces demanding that they relinquish power, the generals may find themselves further squeezed by an Islamist parliamentary block with unimpeachable democratic legitimacy.
And, as President Suharto found in 1998, when popular unrest forced him to relinquish power after 32 years, economic failure can topple seemingly stable Indonesian regimes.
When Gen Pinochet made the same request to other generals, they also refused and the military ruler accepted he would have to relinquish power, the documents say.
But Mr Putin's subsequent hounding into exile of two of the oligarchs who refused to relinquish power, Vladimir Gusinsky and Boris Berezovsky, bore troubling witness to his authoritarian instincts.
Many Egyptians, including reform-minded professionals, fear that the Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood, the unofficial opposition, would never relinquish power once they had won it at the ballot box.
"We have and will continue to urge the SCAF to relinquish power to civilian elected authorities and to respect the universal rights of the Egyptian people and the rule of law, " he told reporters.
But that would require Congress to relinquish some power, so it hasn't happened.
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Will Spanish politicians be willing to relinquish such power?
MCI's current chief executive, Michael Capellas, must relinquish his role as board chairman to an outside director, a power sharing that remains deeply unpopular with American bosses.
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