Sentences with phrase «abdicating power»

Sorry Tony, but I think abdicating your power by saying «ADHD!»

It puts food on their tables — but they still have to be responsible... in fact, I suspect that if you don't have the power to give someone some opportunity to grow and learn, then you either have gutted the educational system and load up your bank accounts, or you have abdicated your power to someone who does.

«Black / brown spaces are the center of gravity for Christianity, but white spaces are still the center of Christian power... There's no discussion of power dynamics or call to white Christians to abdicate power.

The big studios have abdicated power by focusing solely on superhero movies.

Not exact matches

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.

When adults voluntarily abdicate the use of power in favor of explanation, they are modeling appropriate behavior toward the weak on the part of the powerful.

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

In order for the Church in India to regain its lost authority, it must abdicate its alliances with power.

Congress abdicated its war - making power decades ago.

I'd mentioned the article as part of a larger discussion of whether we adults have abdicated too much power to children when we create school lunch menus that are entirely comprised of «kid food» like pizza, burgers, chicken nuggets, mac - n - cheese and the rest.

The ongoing violence in Syria is probably the most prominent example of this - the Assad regime desperately clings to power with no sign of abdicating and, according to the United Nations, 6,200 civilians have been killed by the army on the orders of the government.

«New York has been willing to let even the last minute pass and to abdicate the whole of its redistricting power to a reluctant federal court,» the judges wrote.

In 1929 Amanullah was forced to abdicate and different warlords contended for power until a new king took power.

That is not because they wouldn't like to have it, but because the country's executive and legislative branches have not, in contrast to US state supreme courts (as well as to US executive and legislative branches), abdicated their regulatory powers to the bar.