Sentences with phrase «as abdication»

Accordingly, disclosure to a third party can not in every case be taken as an abdication of a consumer's privacy interest.

The Right Coast and Lindgren are critical of Ropes» decision, characterizing it as an abdication of a lawyer's duty to handle unpopular causes.

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.

But some still see the multiverse as an abdication of scientific responsibility: a fancier way of simply saying «coincidences happen».

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«You must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love,» Edward VIII explained in his abdication speech in 1936.

A polemicist might well have salty things to say about this abdication of moral principles that Christians have held since the earliest days of the faith, but in Wilcox's mild and irenic diction the mainline churches are simply «accommodationist,» espousing what he calls a «Golden Rule Christianity» that honors tolerance, kindness, and social justice as paramount virtues.

In the last six years of John Paul's life» as his physical condition deteriorated, and some called for his abdication, insisting that he was no longer capable of managing the bureaucracy of the Church» the mystery of the interconnection of love and suffering was dramatically realized on the world stage.

We all like to slum it, sometimes, but to get too enthusiastic about pop culture materials or, worse, to take them seriously as objects of aesthetic judgment — well, that was an abdication of the critic's responsibilities, not to mention a sign of vulgar taste.

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.

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

In short, the Nature we know from modern science embodies and reflects immaterial properties and a depth of intelligibility... To view all these extremely complex, elegant and intelligible laws, entities, properties and relations in the evolution of the universe as «brute facts» in need of no further explanation is, in the words of the great John Paul II, an «abdication of human intelligence».»

To compel others to do the same is the essence of tyranny, the abdication of legitimate authority, as the Chief Justice himself states in his dissent: that is the nature of it.

As we approach the fifth anniversary of Benedict XVI's abdication and Francis's election, we face a strange situation in reflecting on the Church's trajectory: We must consider the actions of two men, both of whom are still alive.

As configured on February 28 (when Benedict XVI's abdication took effect), the College was a somewhat strange electorate, albeit one that produced a striking result.

George Weigel suggests reforming the College of Cardinals: As configured on February 28 (when Benedict XVI's abdication took effect), the College was a somewhat strange electorate, albeit one that produced a striking result.

And using the «word of God» as a way to justify evil behavior is just abdication of personal responsibility.

The abdication thing in the past — as good as George VI and Elizabeth Bowes - Lyon were for the Empire — hasn't really been good for the institution.

The need for abdication as a regular feature of constitutional monarchies became apparent in the first half of this century.

In his Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (published 1852), he was contrasting the farce of Louis Napoleon's French dictatorship (as Napoleon III, 1851) to Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's real power and glory (as Napoleon I, 1799); after the tragic mimicry of Napoleon Francois Charles Joseph Bonaparte, as Napoleon II, Emperor - without - Empire of France, after his father, Bonaparte's abdication in 1814; and from birth, titular Prince Imperial and King of Rome).

It became evident that without abdication states risked a succession of extremely elderly kings and queens, as the crown was passed from centenarian to octogenarian.

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

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.

Just from things I have read I think the abdication and her dad taking over as King had a profound impact on the young Elizabeth.

In his view, making readers the «new gatekeepers» of published work is an abdication of a writerly responsibility to make that work as strong as it can be.

Both Buffett and Munger often give the impression of being very hands - off with the management of the companies Berkshire owns — in the past Munger has referred to the culture of managing investee companies at Berkshire as being «decentralization almost to the point of abdication» but this letter suggests Buffett was not shy about making an interjection where he thought it was necessary: «Brandeis has taken a number of our boxes and placed them on the counter with 25 other offerings of cheap bulk candy, and other run of the mill products.

The remark «Today is their creator» could thus be read as an altogether different statement of faith, one centered on abdication of the concept of individual authorship.5

The [Koons] exhibition's historical position as the last to fill the Breuer building is a travesty, an abdication of the museum's responsibility to balance aesthetic discernment with the forces of the marketplace.

This great abdication has made Middlesbrough one of the most deprived places in the country, variously described as part of «Britain's rust belt» (The Economist) or one of the UK's «least resilient» locations (credit reference agency Experian).

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

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.

Most other nations seem to be taking Trump's abdication as a spur to action.

Not only can these abdications of professional responsibility result in malpractice claims and needless litigation, they also lead to comical usage bungles, some of which end up as examples in legal - writing texts.

Richard Wydick had this to say about the subject: Disregarding generally accepted punctuation and grammar rules «is an abdication of the professional duty to express meaning as clearly as possible.»

It is an abdication of a prosecutor's duty to the public to bring unsupported criminal charges, and the abdication is aggravated when those charges are brought based on an impermissible purpose such as public pressure.

Our newest Justice, Neil Gorsuch, has denounced Chevron as «a judge - made doctrine for the abdication of the judicial duty.»