Sentences with phrase «abdication by»

Exporting these batteries to be processed under grossly inadequate environmental and workplace safety regulations is an abdication by industry of its responsibility to be a good steward of the environment and America's responsibility to be a good trade partner with Mexico.

This should be recognized as a formal abdication by the US of its role as a global leader.

Nothing is more tragic than the virtual abdication by the American high school of its responsibility for the mathematical and scientific education of the next generation, leaving U. S. 15 - year - olds below the industrial world average on math and science tests.

Whereas that film dramatized King George VI overcoming his stammer, this one is preoccupied with the reason for the abdication by older brother Edward VIII that made it possible.

Self - mockingly describing himself as «an out - of - touch lawyer who does not know the political realities», the crossbencher suggested the referendum had been «an extraordinary abdication by Parliament and representatives of the country of their own responsibilities.

Not exact matches

From his self - imposed exile, he sent out letters announcing the possibility of his abdication, according to «Ivan the Terrible» by Robert Payne and Nikita Romanoff.

Professor MacCulloch was, indeed, soon to be observed putting himself about in the liberal media; and in an article in The Times he began an unusually spiteful piece by laboriously comparing the Church, in the wake of Pope Benedict's abdication, to the sandcastles he used to build as a boy at Clacton: «Quite suddenly there came a point where the waters» onrush became irresistible.

They, soon reinforced, we may hope, by a more clear - eyed U.S. policy, may succeed in recalling the United Nations to its former and more modest self — a necessary, if frequently irritating, instrument of sovereign states in search of cooperation without abdication.

Even the modern concepts of teleological development and organic growth are at base possession by process — «the abdication of man before the exuberant world of It.»

Meanwhile, the vacuum left by the traditional church - related colleges» abdication of the «distinctively Christian» role has been filled by the increasingly popular «Christian» colleges, represented in part by the Christian College Coalition.

At the end of the book he is looking for other institutions that might fill the moral vacuum left by the abdication of the bishops.

This is a complete abdication of responsibility by our legislative leaders.

The film follows the unlikely friendship of the prince and his therapist through the death of King George V, the accession of Bertie's brother David (Edward VIII, played by Guy Pearce), the constitutional turmoil caused by David's relationship with Wallis Simpson and his subsequent abdication.

Any effort to greatly undo the protection of individual rights codified by the Constitution would require actions in accordance with Article V of the same, violent over throw of the government, or the willful surrender and abdication of individual freedoms by the populace.

They are unique to her in her position as Monarch, and will be inherited by her successor upon her death (or abdication).

Day said he was discouraged enough by what he saw that it might not be a bad thing, while several other lawmakers felt that stance represented an abdication of duties.

Even if the school survived the chaos that would ensue, could we expect that the character of its students wouldn't be affected (adversely, in this case) by the message that such an abdication of responsibility would impart?

It is the most recent example of an alarming trend — the abdication of responsibility by boards of education to publicly traded, profit - making companies whose bottom line is not education but the strength of their financial performance for their stockholders.

MPs reported concerns about the variability of careers guidance offered by individual schools - and quoted claims that this was «not delegation to schools, it is abdication».

«And to expect more and better careers guidance for students, when schools have not a penny more for the new duty is not delegation of the duty to schools - it is abdication of by the Department for Education.

The district «refuses to implement the Stull Act in complete abdication of its responsibility to its students, their parents and the taxpayers of the district,» states the letter, signed by attorney R. DeWitt Kirwan.

The more «abdication» we saw by publishers to agents of the role of talent scout and groomer, the higher became the gates kept by those agents.

Since global fossil fuel use is dominated by the G8, and since much deforestation involves raw material export to G8 countries, the failure to plainly address these issues is an abdication of responsibility.

After an introduction by his Department of the Environment Director Jared Blumenfeld, Newsom began by calling for determined action on climate change and environmental issues, saying that the time has come to move past indecision and «abdication of responsibility.»

If state governments in California and elsewhere pick up some of the slack left by federal abdication, as some governors are pledging they will, the damage will be less.

Too bad lots of good science gets cut along with the models but payback must be expected for gross overreach and abdication of science professionalism by CAGW activists.

The Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers (CARL) applauds the Ontario government for agreeing to temporarily fill the gap left by the federal government's abdication of responsibility to meet the most basic health care needs of vulnerable refugees and refugee claimants.

[22] For a detailed discussion of the abdication of regulatory power by state supreme courts in favor of the ABA and other bar associations, see Snyder, Democratizing Legal Services, 199 - 206.

Many, however, continue to claim that the spirit and intent of the 1969 White Paper and the abdication of responsibilities to Aboriginal peoples by Canada continues to be a long - term goal of successive federal governments.