Sentences with phrase «abdicates from»

The Christian who accepts violence, like the Christian who thinks he can ignore violence, has abdicated from Christianity as a way of life.

The Force will not be intimidated by any individual, groups or institution, constituent or otherwise to abdicate from its constitutional responsibilities of protection of lives and property and due enforcement of the rule of law, and law and order across the Country.

Using such systems to rigorously abdicate from the need for aesthetic decision - making, Creed opens his work to moments of chance and spontaneity.

In 1936, Edward VIII - the Queen's uncle - scandalised the nation when he chose love over duty, abdicating from the throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.

Not exact matches

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

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

For who is this ineffectual God who failed to show up and claim her but a version of her father who abdicated and disappeared; who failed to protect her from what was going on in her home; who, in effect, «dropped» her before she was fully formed?

Faced with the ultimate question of where the ordered energies of the universe and ordering laws of science themselves come from, many atheist materialists simply abdicate the search for truth and say that there is no reason.

The Gbese Mantse has come under intense pressure from some Ghanaians to abdicate after vowing to do same if the National Democratic Congress is defeated in the December 7 polls.

Basically envision abdicating to some individual you've met online after some meeting, just to later discover that they're a totally extraordinary individual from what you thought at first.

One assumes from his coveted «and X as Y» credit that the role will amount to a cameo, yet Malkovich actually has a sizable part as English's (and England's) arch enemy, a French industrialist who plans to get Queen Elizabeth to abdicate the throne, be coronated in her place, and transform Great Britain into a prison colony, which will apparently net him oodles of cash but, more importantly, allow his inner megalomaniac to run riot.

Koro's own son, Porourangi (Cliff Curtis), next in line to serve as chief, abdicates his role and flees from the village shattered by the loss of his wife and baby.

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?

The big fall and jump though are Wonderstruck, which goes from # 3 last month to # 8 this month and Victoria and Abdul, which abdicates that # 8 to land at # 4 this month.

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 seemingly abdicated their roles, and it is not clear how they benefited from the experience or how they were able to demonstrate their achievements in order to be assessed.

There is plenty of player agency in Xenoblade Chronicles, but it doesn't abdicate the developers from their responsibility to tell me an interesting story about interesting characters doing interesting things that presumbly come together in an interesting conclusion.

In 2014, Beard abdicated her post at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive (where she worked on projects with artists ranging from Trevor Paglen to Barry McGee) to take the reigns at The Lab, a storied and beloved experimental non-profit space in San Francisco's Mission District.

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.

And for decades, it has abdicated its sovereign duty to the people of this nation to prevent the ensuing harm from this climate crisis.

[DB] Having been given ample opportunity to make his case, and having abdicated the usage of logic, reason and physics, the user in question has recused himself from further participation in this science - and evidence - based venue.

Counsel for the husband argued that the court should not ««shirk» or abdicate» from its duty to review the lump sum obligation «in favour of the family courts», the consent order having been «highly unusual in its terms» (the lump sum order was said, in effect, to be a maintenance order).

We want to hear from you if you feel that a grandson or granddaughter's father or mother has abdicated his or her parental rights and responsibilities.

Ahmed's observation is similar to Megan Boler's caution that our emotions may function as ways of permitting ourselves to abdicate or separate from oppressive histories.

Brokers have abdicated their responsibilities to provide & demand attendance at ongoing training programs & assist in the career development of their salesforce, all the while collecting fees from people who have a limited chance at sucess.