Sentences with phrase «abdication of responsibility»

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

In the name of racial loyalty, and in an effort to keep alive the sense of oppression that fueled the revolts of our youth, we have engaged in an almost criminal abdication of responsibility.

There is an all - too - prevalent attitude which encourages this pseudo-individualistic abdication of responsibility: the blaming of individual or corporate actions on «the system.»

«The mayor's current position of absolute zeroes is an irresponsible abdication of responsibility that kicks the can down the road for taxpayers.»

«It would be a total abdication of our responsibility.»

The comments immediately drew criticism from John Woodcock, the chair of the PLP's defence committee, who branded it an «absurd, embarrassing abdication of responsibility on [a] crucial matter of national security and many thousands of jobs».

Richard Weissbourd, who led the study, said this revealed a «dumbfounding abdication of responsibility.»

While I call it a form of abdication of responsibility, the use of literary agents as the first line of readers has, thus, become the norm because publishers couldn't keep enough readers on staff to handle everything coming in.

I think that we are all enjoying a well - deserved moment of euphoria right now, after so many set - backs, not least of which is the Harper Government ©'s full - bore assault on the environment and its complete abdication of responsibility re: CO2 emissions.

In the letter, the plaintiffs» attorneys say that 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.»

This abdication of responsibility by elected officials has created quite an uncomfortable situation for Corporate America.

Her flight to the commune is thus an abdication of responsibility.

He has been invited to consult with the office of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Reports, as well as with software designers who suspect that the abundant options they offer may constitute an abdication of their responsibility.

As for Abdication of responsibility, that is what the entire Jesus thing is all about.

In encourages judgmentalism, marginalization, and an abdication of responsibility.

Hawaiiguest, Let's see judgmentalism, marginaliztion, and abdication of responsibility, judge yourself, live separated from the world, and depend on God.

Any opinion that replaces reason, logic, search for truth, and tolerance with dogma, absolutism, ignorance, denial, abdication of responsibility, and self - forgiveness is absolutely NOT beneficial to humanity.

It is, IMO, the abdication of the responsibility for one's statements which is being denounced as leading to «a mean - spirited, loveless and graceless edict».

Failure to make those buys was an abdication of responsibility produced by delusional thinking.

However, don't blame others for making «dangerous» products — this is just an abdication of responsibility if you fail to use the product correctly.

In my opinion, introducing a for - profit service provider into a public education environment amounts to an abdication of responsibility that does little more than put the corporation's well - being over the welfare of children.

If there was an abdication of responsibility, it was from those who forgot that when people propose a change to the status quo, especially a fundamental constitutional change, the emphasis rests with them to make their argument.

That is a complete abdication of responsibility.

The tenant groups, who have come weekly to Albany and were involved in a protest that led to 60 arrests outside the governor's offices, call it an «abdication of responsibility and leadership.»

«I felt it would have been self - indulgent and an abdication of responsibility to continue in a job I loved,» she said.

They issued a report last November, attacking CFS for an «almost complete abdication of its responsibility» after major problems surfaced at the Nassau County Crime Lab.

«That being said, they have a responsibility to address this issue of corruption and for them to swing too low and not truly address the core issues contributing to all of this is an abdication of their responsibility as state legislators.»

There's a perverse logic to this abdication of responsibility.

The shot of McDormand walking away from the bewildered but relieved couple in a restaurant is «cool,» I guess, but the abdication of any responsibility toward another woman who might be in the same dangers she faced is demoralizing — and McDonagh doesn't know it.

This is an abdication of responsibility.»

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?

Chad Aldeman of Bellwether Education Partners — an alumnus of the Obama administration — considers it an abdication of responsibility, especially considering the $ 15 billion a year the feds spend on our schools via the Title I program.

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.

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.

It insists that it has no policing or advocacy intentions or authority, which I see as an abdication of responsibility and a great loss of opportunity.

One is a complete abdication of responsibility.

The decision sounded like an abdication of responsibility, a downgrading of the museum's trademark show, and a recipe for a colossal disaster.

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.»

Oxfam's Stephen Hale qualified the lack of action as an «abdication of responsibility» and qualified the summit as a failure, but highlighted «three rays of hope,» one of them being the initial steps towards setting Sustainable Development Goals to replace the Millenium Development Goals from 2015 on.

According to New York University environmental law expert Richard L. Revesz, the EPA's abdication of its responsibility to protect the public from pollution could unleash a flood of citizen lawsuits and other common - law litigation that could keep the agency under fire for years.

For the WG1 to not estimate the PDF for climate sensitivity is either a rare example of scientists ethically refusing to overreach while being pressured to do so, or an abdication of responsibility to society.

This abdication of responsibility has harmed electricity consumers and US taxpayers,» she said.

It is an abdication of responsibility for an expert to take advantage of this.

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.

However, shifting the burden to the private sector will not compensate entirely for the government's abdication of responsibility.