Sentences with phrase «by abdicating»

«Cuomo and the Albany leaders have created their own problem by abdicating their responsibility,» he said, adding that property taxes had driven away residents and businesses.

So far his strategy has been to avoid taking a firm and coherent position on whether Britain should be In or Out by abdicating responsibility to the public in a future referendum, in what has become the central plank of the Conservative's European election campaign.

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.

Hospice must never become another mechanism by which society can hide death, or through which society can abdicate its responsibility toward the dying and those who love them.

Not only have institutions of higher education decisively rejected the role of in loco parentis, but they are increasingly populated by children whose parents have abdicated their own responsibility.

Yet not too many of us think that we need to throw our children to popular culture willy - nilly, I can't think of anyone who denies the importance of a stable and loving family for a child, anyone who thinks that by creating a strong community we are abdicating our roles as parents, not at all.

We have to do the heavy brain lifting because you have abdicated all your responsibility to everyone else by living in a fantasy - world of schizophrenia.

How can you stop taking care of your family, abdicating your responsibilities for your child's future by «not paying bills...»»..

Third, a moral agent can not abdicate his or her responsibility for taking hold of and playing a contributing part in the shaping and reshaping of these moral orders by simply conforming his or her value - decisions («mechanically,» as it were) to any of these external orders.

He abdicated his freedom of speech by attempting to incite violence.

When the father is drinking, he abdicates his parental role which is taken over by mother.

The government's has abdicated its responsibility for the care and well - being of people; it is an assault upon the poor and the uninformed by governments that are being irresponsibly financed.

he is guilty of abdicating his responsibility by not doing everything he could to buy a WC striker and a backup for coq (instead he offered flam and arteta another year — my god!).

A less likely opponent is James Toney, who recently abdicated the IBF middleweight crown by moving up to the 168 - pound class.

Unfortunately the Government is more concerned with placating its most extreme backbenchers than listening to businesses, whilst the Labour party continue to abdicate their responsibilities by giving the Government a blank cheque on Brexit.»

Former assemblyman Dan Losquadro, who was elected in good faith to represent us in Albany, abdicated his post after only 2 1/2 years to run for a totally unrelated position, that of Brookhaven Town highway superintendent, leaving a vacancy that may be filled by a special election.

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.

In his ruling, Justice Baba Yusuf said that that it was the responsibility of the prosecution to produce the defendant in court as required by law but regretted that the prosecution has unfortunately abdicated this responsibility today as far as this case is concerned.

Mr Asiedu Nketia who himself has been told by NDC supporters to abdicate his position said the party's prescription about the matter has to be heeded.

We are by this warning everybody that the fact that we have elections doesn't mean that the rules, criminal laws and other things have been abdicated,» COP Boakye stated.

The Force will not be intimidated by any individual, groups or institution, constituent or otherwise to abdicate from its constitutional responsibilities of protection of lives and property and due enforcement of the rule of law, and law and order across the Country.

«If INEC is blatantly intimidated into abdicating its basic function of monitoring and certifying the validity of party primary elections for the selection of candidates, and instead acquiesce by allowing the court to arbitrarily pick candidates without INEC - monitored primaries then our democracy is becoming gravely injured, needing urgent ambulatory care and political surgery.»

Manhattan Democratic Party Chairman Keith Wright, who abdicated his Assembly seat last year to unsuccessfully pursue retired Congressman Charles Rangel «s job in Washington, confirmed over the weekend that he is interested in returning to Albany — by running for the position of Harlem State Senator Bill Perkins, who is expected to win a special election to fill the City Council vacancy created when Assemblywoman Inez Dickens left her local post to assume Wright's old role in the State Legislature.

Upper West Side resident Cary Goodman, who launched in January a City Council race on a primarily single - issue platform against the AMNH expansion, told those present at a City Hall hearing on the Parks Department's preliminary budget Tuesday that Mitchell Silver is abdicating his responsibilities as outlined by the City Charter unless he rejects the museum's «toxic» proposal.

Shadow minister warns Jeremy Corbyn not to «abdicate» responsibility by ducking EU debate Jeremy Corbyn «hobbled» by Labour over EU concerns, says Galloway Jeremy Corbyn dismisses EU deal as irrelevant «tinkering»

The terrible and trecherous Pendragon plans to gain the throne of Cornwall by getting the king to abdicate and to marry his lovely daughter.

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

Koro's own son, Porourangi (Cliff Curtis), next in line to serve as chief, abdicates his role and flees from the village shattered by the loss of his wife and baby.

«By allowing public funds to flow to private providers, Nevada's voucher law abdicates this public responsibility to ensure quality education for every student — and exposes families to greater educational risk,» Potter said.

While we are encouraged by the quick action by leaders of the 114th Congress to update the law, we fear that the current discussion draft proposed by Senator Alexander abdicates the federal role rather than advance it.

Judge Moukawsher emphatically reminds state leaders that they have a «non-delegable» duty to provide an adequate public education to all Connecticut children, and the state can not abdicate its responsibilities by adopting policies (like local control) that impede its ability to get the job done.

White says, however, that parents «by and large, have abdicated their children to a system willing to sacrifice education for the almighty dollar.»

By selling Kobo Indigo abdicated its dominant position in the Canadian market, a publishing market worth 10 % of the U.S. market, give or take (it's still strong, but Amazon continues to grow at its expense).

So completely is the Guild seen by its critics as having abdicated its responsibility that when, on Tuesday evening this week, Amazon issued «Update re: Amazon / Hachette Business Interruption» — in which Seattle announced its rationale for lower ebook prices — Barry Eisler titled his response: So the Real Authors Guild is... Amazon?»

Regulators abdicated their duties by merely relying on the rating agencies.

Platform providers need to realize that they can not simply hand out their platform like candy, and they certainly must not abdicate their responsibility for good ethical business practices by passing the buck to regulators.

In this case, though, it seems the SMBC — and, by extension, Science at the Smithsonian — have abdicated any leadership role in order to participate in the shameful witch hunt against free - roaming cats.

The Parador de Jarandilla Hotel was originally the temporary refuge of Emperor Charles V, who after abdicating in favor of his son Phillip II, fled and went into hiding in this former 14th century castle built by the Count of Oropesa and the Marquis of Jarandilla.

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

The Convention on Biodiversity and Law of the Sea have not succeeded in advancing their respective causes, but my personal view is that the U.S. has abdicated its responsibility by not ratifying, giving other nations even more cover to behave with extremely narrow viewpoints of national sovereignty, from Russia to China to Brazil to India.

A new report: The Anti-Development Bank: The World Bank's Regressive Energy Policies by the London - based Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) finds that the World Bank has abdicated its primary mission of tackling poverty in the developing world.

You can not Vote or Lobby (to abdicate or steal self - rule) against other groups and EVER expect lasting victory — Only greater Inflation by - way of Artificial Business Cycle (profit occilators).

The governor in a statement after the judge's decision said «At a time when the federal government has abdicated its leadership on climate change, [this ruling] ensures our progress will not be blocked or rolled back by fossil fuel interests and others seeking to maintain the status quo.»

The report also said the lab's «significant and pervasive» problems were exacerbated by the New York State Commission on Forensic Science, which oversees the operation of the state's 22 forensic labs, and which the report said had almost completely abdicated its responsibility for lab accreditation and monitoring.

The lawsuit charged that New York State's decision to abdicate responsibility for public defense to its counties resulted in a patchwork of often understaffed, poorly resourced and largely dysfunctional public defense systems where defendants were routinely arraigned without attorneys, urged to take plea bargains regardless of the facts of their cases, burdened by excessively high bail, and incarcerated for shockingly long periods for misdemeanors and petty crimes.

'» [72] The documents described in (2) above issued by the Supreme Courts of Pennsylvania and of Georgia and by the NOBC and CCJ evidence that, with respect to the regulation of legal services, it would be impossible for a state's review mechanism to provide any kind of «realistic assurance» because, in fact, there is no state review mechanism to speak of — the regulators have abdicated their regulatory responsibilities to persons who can only be described as «active market participants.»

But Hartman said the panel would not be «abdicating its obligation to set a penalty» by holding a circle.

«We think that Net neutrality should be addressed at a federal level, but states like California are doing the right thing by trying to protect their citizens, since the FCC has abdicated their consumer protection role,» Mozilla said in a statement provided to the E-Commerce Times by spokesperson Janette Ciborowski.

Design guru Jony Ive, meanwhile, snickered at Motorola's Moto Maker program that let buyers customize the looks of their devices by saying the company was «abdicating [their] responsibility as a designer.»

Use of eSupra in Canada is illegal for Agents and Supra has already abdicated responsibility by stating your board must address those issues.