Sentences with phrase «avoid accepting responsibility»

This refusal to accept the relevance of the past underpins arguments that the current generation of Australians should not be held responsible for events of the past, as well as the view that a reliance on history is a way for Indigenous people to avoid accepting responsibility and taking control of their own lives.

In our experience, commercial truck drivers and their employers tend to avoid accepting responsibility for their negligence or recklessness.

The owner or operator will probably try to avoid accepting responsibility, because it will mean they have to pay money for the injuries their negligence caused.

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Such refusal to accept responsibility for the crisis was so easy a method of avoiding obligation in the crisis that Ezekiel found in the ancient orthodoxy, according to which one suffers for another's sin, a dangerous stumblingblock to the nation's reconstruction.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

Because men have difficulty in dealing with paradox and ambiguity, they can not accept the evil in themselves, and so they project it onto others: human enemies (which explains the prevalence of war) or an omnipotent God (which allows them to avoid their own responsibility).

The danger is that the counselor will use it to avoid his responsibility which is to discover, stimulate, and mobilize the alcoholic's latent motivation toward accepting help.

We can not accept responsibility for Force Majeure — defined in these booking conditions as any specific event which we, as the supplier of the services, could not reasonably have foreseen, influenced or avoided.

My biggest complaint about deniers (and I don't mean intellectually honest skeptics) is that most of their motivation for doubting, and trying to avoid admission of the negative impacts, has more to do with not wanting to accept responsibility than with any kind of instinctive (in my gut) doubt about the veracity of the issue.

Participants are instructed through various techniques to accept responsibility for their actions, understand and identify the consequences of continued poor driving, and develop a plan to avoid future difficulties.

Though it is encouraging that Coinbase and Visa are both vouching that affected customers will be remunerated for the wrongly billed multiple charges, it is frustrating that both companies are so actively avoiding to accept responsibility for the technical issue.

Accepting a counter-offer may avoid the upheaval of changing employment, but if you are genuinely unhappy with the company or your career direction, it's unlikely that more money or greater responsibility will change your mind.

If you take responsibility and sound like you accept what happened, you'll avoid all that.

Using «I» statements to express your feelings and needs, accepting responsibility, staying respectful, having gratitude and appreciation for your partner's positive traits and actions, and being able to take a break when things get tough are all helpful ways to keep arguments from escalating and to avoid these behaviors.

Mark avoids using criticism, and Ben accepts responsibility for his actions instead of blaming his partner.

They were also ordered to keep the unit clean to avoid future infestation and foul odours (for which they refused to accept responsibility and blamed on the neighbours» cooking).