Sentences with phrase «abdicate their responsibility for»

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

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.

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?

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

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?

Worse still, this light - touch regulation, where the company all but abdicates responsibility for what it sells, is part of Amazon's business model.

So, that to me is frustrating because I've sort of abdicated responsibility for what generally is my largest liability in the hands of somebody else.

Platform providers need to realize that they can not simply hand out their platform like candy, and they certainly must not abdicate their responsibility for good ethical business practices by passing the buck to regulators.

Gaming History «Broken Toys On «Play The News»: «I think what bothers me the most about all this is that the game maker essentially has abdicated any responsibility for making a decision.»

«How EPA Abdicated Responsibility for Flint but Pursues CO2 Emission Reductions at All Costs Is It Worth Tripling US Electricity Rates as a Symbolic Gesture?»

Third, conservatives should be wary of abdicating responsibility for the pace and nature of greenhouse gas emission control policy to the EPA.

Resilience As a Dynamic, Cultivated Quality On the other hand is a deeper discussion of resilience as a dynamic state of being — something that we must aim for, cultivate, and nurture — not just celebrate as an inherent quality that abdicates responsibility for the rest of us.

The report also said the lab's «significant and pervasive» problems were exacerbated by the New York State Commission on Forensic Science, which oversees the operation of the state's 22 forensic labs, and which the report said had almost completely abdicated its responsibility for lab accreditation and monitoring.

But with respect, I don't think this is a sufficient reason or justification for the courts to abdicate their responsibility for upholding the rule of law in the judicial review of administrative decisions entirely.

The lawsuit charged that New York State's decision to abdicate responsibility for public defense to its counties resulted in a patchwork of often understaffed, poorly resourced and largely dysfunctional public defense systems where defendants were routinely arraigned without attorneys, urged to take plea bargains regardless of the facts of their cases, burdened by excessively high bail, and incarcerated for shockingly long periods for misdemeanors and petty crimes.

There are uncertainties in many legal matters, but that is no excuse for lawyers to abdicate responsibility for guiding their clients: Experienced, competent lawyers can narrow and focus uncertainty, even if they are not psychic.

Its arguments before the courts have been filled with bravado around its role in regulating legal education, despite abdicating responsibility for its discriminatory economics.

However, don't fall into the trap of abdicating responsibility for the tasks you delegate.

Not exact matches

If we aren't in the room advocating for global health as a top priority, if we aren't there standing up for our belief in diversity and inclusion, or if we fail to speak out when the situation demands it, then we have abdicated our Credo responsibility.

And to have them just abdicate that responsibility for personal gain to me was, and is, particularly galling,» Lynch said.

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.

For he believed the crowd, the mass, to be a hiding - place in which the individual may abdicate his true quest for inward intensity and responsibiliFor he believed the crowd, the mass, to be a hiding - place in which the individual may abdicate his true quest for inward intensity and responsibilifor inward intensity and responsibility.

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.

The head has abdicate it's responsibility to lead and make hard decisions that are unpopular for fear of losing donations and tax exemptions etc..

If the Bible says its ok, then you abdicate any personal responsibility in evaluating for yourself whether an act is morally right or wrong.

To some extent, and this is a point sometimes missed, arguing simply for the limited freedom for the Church to act as she desires in her own limited sphere is unsatisfactory, because it appears to abdicate the Church's responsibility to proclaim the truth for all people in all cultures.

A moral agent may not abdicate his or her responsibility for giving a normative explanation that can serve as a justification for his or her moral choices.

Third, a moral agent can not abdicate his or her responsibility for taking hold of and playing a contributing part in the shaping and reshaping of these moral orders by simply conforming his or her value - decisions («mechanically,» as it were) to any of these external orders.

And this is where I believe a lot of the rhetoric against institutions falls down because not only does it most often ignore the central problem (heart issues), it also abdicates critics of their responsibility for their own heart issues and how it affects the situation.

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!).

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.

Blindly abdicating such responsibilities puts you in target range for procedures and policies that may be detrimental to your sons and daughters.

This contrasts with an Attorney - General who abdicates his constitutional responsibilities and becomes a mere conduit for executive actions in the issuance of political White Papers contrary to the Constitution.

It abdicates those who've lost these votes of any responsibility for their own untruths.

Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, said, «The Senate has a constitutional responsibility here that it can not abdicate for partisan political reasons.»

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.

However, while Leitch says second - unit directors can work wonders, especially if they're communicating with the first - unit director, he wasn't about to abdicate his action directing responsibilities for Deadpool now that he was the head honcho.

«By allowing public funds to flow to private providers, Nevada's voucher law abdicates this public responsibility to ensure quality education for every student — and exposes families to greater educational risk,» Potter said.

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.

So completely is the Guild seen by its critics as having abdicated its responsibility that when, on Tuesday evening this week, Amazon issued «Update re: Amazon / Hachette Business Interruption» — in which Seattle announced its rationale for lower ebook prices — Barry Eisler titled his response: So the Real Authors Guild is... Amazon?»

«Some homeowners believe what they're paying for is the ability to abdicate responsibility.

Parents abdicate their responsibility to help prepare their children for the real world.

Because, even though it created some late in life relief for some dogs, it also helped the puppy mills abdicate their responsibility to care for those dogs.

«Of course, $ 10 million in R&D support is measly against the roughly $ 1 billion the Energy Department suggests would be needed to really deploy EGS on a mass scale...» The Energy Dept. can «suggest» all it wants but for decades it has abdicated its responsibilities to the public in favor of Big Oil and Big Auto.

«While the federal government abdicates its responsibility on climate change, governors do not have the luxury of denying a scientific reality, and it is more important than ever for states to take collective, common sense action,» Governor Cuomo said.

There can be serious consequences for those who blindly abdicate this responsibility.

'» [72] The documents described in (2) above issued by the Supreme Courts of Pennsylvania and of Georgia and by the NOBC and CCJ evidence that, with respect to the regulation of legal services, it would be impossible for a state's review mechanism to provide any kind of «realistic assurance» because, in fact, there is no state review mechanism to speak of — the regulators have abdicated their regulatory responsibilities to persons who can only be described as «active market participants.»

But lawyers have abdicated their responsibility to the greater good in favor of a system that works for lawyers and not the public.