Sentences with phrase «abdicated its responsibility as»

Have I abdicated my responsibility as a spiritual leader?

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

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.

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.

If those interpretations include potential bad effects do we really want the scientists to abdicate their responsibilities as citizens to help the rest of us understand?

In a recent profile of Ive, the designer sharply criticized an unnamed competitor that allowed customers to «make it whatever you want,» saying that that «I believe that's abdicating your responsibility as a designer.»

If you act too much like a friend, you are abdicating your responsibility as a parent.

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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.

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.

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!»

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.

Indeed, the bill is so poorly worded, some of them said, that it could be interpreted as abolishing basic property rights where museums are concerned and mandating the deaccession of such substantial portions of» their collections that they would be forced to abdicate their fiduciary responsibility — and thus be in violation of other laws.

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.

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.

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

Shadow minister warns Jeremy Corbyn not to «abdicate» responsibility by ducking EU debate Jeremy Corbyn «hobbled» by Labour over EU concerns, says Galloway Jeremy Corbyn dismisses EU deal as irrelevant «tinkering»

The severity of Toller's convictions, as well as his disgust at the knowledge that his church has taken money from one of the town's biggest polluters, gives rise to an angry, confrontational question: Why have so many Christians rejected the science of climate change, effectively abdicated their God - given responsibility to look after the Earth?

Glanz et al. (2006) reported that principals who were seen as instructional leaders collaborated with teacher leaders to supervise classroom teachers, while principals without instructional expertise abdicated supervision responsibility to teacher leaders.

And speaking as a library trustee, I think we would be abdicating our responsibility to our patrons if we avoided all investment in e-books, just as it would have constituted a failure to serve our patrons if we'd decided to ignore VCR tapes and DVDs because of issues with those formats.

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?»

«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?»

«As the federal government abdicates its responsibility and ignores basic science, states across the nation are picking up the mantle of climate leadership,» said Governor Cuomo.

At least the new letter signals that local elected leaders are unlikely to change course on addressing climate change even as the Republican - controlled Congress and Trump administration abdicate their responsibilities.

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As in New Orleans, the ACLU places the blame not on the public defender's office but on the county and state governments, which it says have abdicated their responsibilities under Gideon.

'» [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.»

How can we as a profession maintain our moral authority to regulate members if we abdicate responsibility on this egregious misconduct such as this?

Design guru Jony Ive, meanwhile, snickered at Motorola's Moto Maker program that let buyers customize the looks of their devices by saying the company was «abdicating [their] responsibility as a designer.»

You should not fool yourself into thinking Dave that you're providing anything more than the clerk at the newspaper who takes an ad or the non-registered assistant at the office who loads a listing because as a FSBO provider you've abdicated all responsibilities to become nothing more than a data entry clerk for which you get an up front non-refundable fee.

Another unfortunate result in some trading areas has been a drop in ethical standards as some brokers and managers abdicate their responsibility to monitor the behaviour of the salespeople registered with them.

Managing brokers may delegate their responsibilities under RESA, as long as they have not abdicated control or become so uninvolved as to have effectively abdicated control.