Sentences with phrase «abdicated responsibility on»

«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.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

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 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.

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?»

So many people all but abdicate all meaningful responsibility regarding their personal finances to their advisor (and shame on those advisors who perpetuate the myth, too).

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.»

When not abdicating their responsibility to render judgment on the most vexing games, they cling to rudimentary notions of value, questioning a game's length but not its grotesque sexual violence.

The Convention on Biodiversity and Law of the Sea have not succeeded in advancing their respective causes, but my personal view is that the U.S. has abdicated its responsibility by not ratifying, giving other nations even more cover to behave with extremely narrow viewpoints of national sovereignty, from Russia to China to Brazil to India.

«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.

Given that funding agencies rely on academic journals to ensure that authors archive data (improperly abdicating their own responsibilities), the moral of this should be that the -LSB-...]

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.

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.

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.

Grass roots real estate people these days seem to have communally abdicated their responsibility to know what the hell has been going on in the halls and minds of their elected representatives» ivory towers and skulls respectively.