Sentences with phrase «us abdicates responsibility»

The statement mirrors recent comments from Tesla's CEO Elon Musk: «The driver can not abdicate responsibility,» he said when launching the new feature.

The B.C. Liberals abdicated their responsibility and ignored the voices of B.C. communities, First Nations and businesses by handing over decision - making power for the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline project to the federal government.

I can tell you from personal experience that the choice of abortion is not taken lightly and it is not abdicating responsibility.

Most in the legal academy have decried this change in judicial attitude, arguing that the Court is abdicating its responsibility to reshape society and forge a national community based upon aspirational ideals.

I think that people pray and that allows them to abdicate responsibility for a problem rather than look for a real solution.

Hospice must never become another mechanism by which society can hide death, or through which society can abdicate its responsibility toward the dying and those who love them.

Morse condemned Lee's comments, which failed to appreciate how Christians support the elderly and said it «feels to me that this government is once again going to abdicate its responsibility to older people».

Have I abdicated my responsibility as a spiritual leader?

He gives a reminder that he is still the true king of his people, that it is he (and not this feeble king) who commands in Israel, delivers Israel, and serves as its commander - in - chief, that it is he also (and not this king that abdicates his responsibility) who himself bears all the suffering of this people, who takes it to himself and suffers it, that finally it is on him (and not on this blind king) that there falls all the evil committed among his people.

Therefore, you appear to be abdicating your responsibility to be a thinking adult to a fictional character.

It became no less clear that Congress had almost completely abdicated its responsibilities to balance the power of the executive branch.

The problem is, men have abdicated their responsibility and women have filled the vacuum left behind without checking themselves against scripture first.

Further, man is always under the obligation to use his freedom as much as possible for shaping his life; he may never abdicate his responsibility under pretext that everything happens in any case as it must happen.

Of course, this scripture can also be bent into as an excuse to abdicate responsibility: «The earth is the Lord's, so let Him take care of it!»

How can you stop taking care of your family, abdicating your responsibilities for your child's future by «not paying bills...»»..

The government's has abdicated its responsibility for the care and well - being of people; it is an assault upon the poor and the uninformed by governments that are being irresponsibly financed.

he is guilty of abdicating his responsibility by not doing everything he could to buy a WC striker and a backup for coq (instead he offered flam and arteta another year — my god!).

the crowd abdicated their responsibility and started moaning and groaning at every back pass, and then booing the substitution and then everything (there were even boos at half time) I believe they cost the team points there.

Played on the right because he doesn't have the pace to go round the full - back, he continually abdicated responsibility to Byram to get a cross in.

Players (playing for the more sophisticated coaches) may be under instructions not to welly it upfield but abdicating the responsibility to a teammate is not really any better.

Isn't this just one more instance of pandering to children and abdicating our responsibility as adults to serve the most nutritious food possible?

Could it be because more parents still have abdicated responsibility for teaching their kids good life habits to the government?

Could it be because so many parents have abdicated responsibility for feeding their kids to the government?

So far his strategy has been to avoid taking a firm and coherent position on whether Britain should be In or Out by abdicating responsibility to the public in a future referendum, in what has become the central plank of the Conservative's European election campaign.

While Washington abdicates its responsibility to keep the American people safe, New York is showing the way forward,» he said.

The task force «has abdicated its responsibility to serve the needs of the community and instead has served the needs of its politicians,» said Bob Friedrich, president of the Glen Oaks Village co-op and founder of EQU.

It gets our money (NYS taxes) but abdicated its responsibility to research pure cancer * prevention *.

Unfortunately the Government is more concerned with placating its most extreme backbenchers than listening to businesses, whilst the Labour party continue to abdicate their responsibilities by giving the Government a blank cheque on Brexit.»

In his ruling, Justice Baba Yusuf said that that it was the responsibility of the prosecution to produce the defendant in court as required by law but regretted that the prosecution has unfortunately abdicated this responsibility today as far as this case is concerned.

The majority leader cited «constitutional concerns» with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's redistricting reform bill, saying he's unclear whether the Legislature can legally abdicate its responsibility to redraw congressional and legislative district lines.

The Liberal Democrat environment spokesman Steve Webb said: «The government can not just abdicate responsibility for fuel poverty.

«The city abdicated its responsibility to safeguard our communities and to protect our most vulnerable citizens.»

«Dumping suspect citizens like toxic waste, abdicating your responsibilities to the international community, is a very strange way of promoting the rule of law,» said director Shami Chakrabarti.

Plaid Cymru politicians would never abdicate their responsibilities to people in Wales in the same way as Brexit's so - called leaders have.

NYC Councilmember Ritchie Torres, Chair of the Committee on Public Housing: «For too long the state has abdicated its responsibility to public housing and complacently accepted its rapid decline.

«Cuomo and the Albany leaders have created their own problem by abdicating their responsibility,» he said, adding that property taxes had driven away residents and businesses.

Mr Miliband admitted it was «more than a little odd» to be facing his brother David in the race to lead Labour, but said he would have been «abdicating his responsibility» if he did not stand.

Upper West Side resident Cary Goodman, who launched in January a City Council race on a primarily single - issue platform against the AMNH expansion, told those present at a City Hall hearing on the Parks Department's preliminary budget Tuesday that Mitchell Silver is abdicating his responsibilities as outlined by the City Charter unless he rejects the museum's «toxic» proposal.

«One of the reasons Buhari was voted in was the belief that he would be able to deal with Nigeria's exigencies, not to come in, pass the buck, and abdicate responsibility.

«We should not be abdicating our responsibility,» said state Sen. John Flanagan (R - L.I.) said.

And then it hit me: We take vacations to temporarily abdicate our responsibilities.

In fact, many of the charter sector's quality headaches stem from school boards that abdicate their responsibilities as charter school authorizers, a role they probably never wanted to play in the first place.

They shouldn't abdicate their responsibility to the children of California.»

All they can say is, «We have chosen to abdicate our responsibility.»

Some readers of this blog will call it «blaming the parents,» but when did parents get the right to abdicate all responsibility for their child's development?

Judge Moukawsher emphatically reminds state leaders that they have a «non-delegable» duty to provide an adequate public education to all Connecticut children, and the state can not abdicate its responsibilities by adopting policies (like local control) that impede its ability to get the job done.

Marshall concluded, «COPAA believes the purpose of a voucher is to provide choice, not to deny rights or abdicate responsibility.

When asked why the charters held lotteries for seats before they were even approved, SDE again abdicated responsibility, claiming SDE has no say over charter lotteries.

«In California, when legislators can't come up with a solution, it ends up going on the ballot,» says Bonilla, who worries about lawmakers abdicating their responsibilities, and the electorate voting on issues they're not well informed about.

The government here is not abdicating its responsibilities but rather creating new networks of services, utilizing more resources than before.