Sentences with word «dereliction»

The ladder is a vicious killer in much the same way that a sleepy airline pilot might be; through gross dereliction of duty, the ladder forces player after player to hurl themselves from tall buildings, hoping and praying that the ground will break their fall, and not their spines.

Described by one of the members as sort of architects, sort of not, sort of maybe, in 2015 they became the first non-artists to win the prestigious Turner Prize for their work tackling urban dereliction in Toxteth, Liverpool.

Can't Teitelbaum be prosecuted for dereliction of duty?

The path of suffering which Jesus chose to tread, the agony in Gethsemane, and the cry of dereliction from the cross, all reveal the intensity of faith, just by virtue of the uncertainty that marked each act of obedience.

«I have a hard time drawing a conclusion other than this was a complete dereliction of duty by the DEC for 25 years,» Ortt wrote to Segos.

With its simultaneous stark contrast and seamless blending of the industrial and the natural, the piece might also be read as an image of the fraught relationship between the man - made and nature, its base an evocation of the urban dereliction of 1950s Manhattan.

Bayhi has absolutely no way of defending himself against it even if he wants to), then what happened was an appalling dereliction of duty on the priest's part for which he would have to answer to God.

My naivete sometimes still stuns me, because I can still think «of course the inquiries would ask sets of questions much like these» — it is also stunning how easily all the relevant inquiries and panels got away with dereliction of duty.

That's how they get you to keep spending your money... They show you a glimmer of hope and then slam the door in your face with absolute dereliction of duty from top down..

The mission's treatment of their problems as moral derelictions must drive many alcoholics away from help by conveying a complete lack of understanding.

Please spear me, this was diabolical at best and a clear dereliction of duty by Wenger and the board.

The result is that said lawmakers are depriving their constituents of participation in democracy, a serious dereliction of duty; in effect, they are not «measuring up.»

Labour claimed it showed an extraordinary dereliction of his duty to find out the scale of wrong - doing and the potential involvement of Coulson, the former No 10 director of communications.

Eighteen of the 20 uniformed and civilian employees whose laziness, incompetence and dereliction who were cited in the state IG's report for enabling two convicted killers to escape from Clinton Correctional Facility last summer are still on the job and won't be criminally prosecuted.

While most commentators agree that there really are two scandals — clerical sexual abuse itself and the subsequent episcopal dereliction — they differ on their diagnoses of both the causes and the appropriate remedies.

That is simply false, and represents a grave dereliction of duty.

The cry of dereliction proves that even Jesus was tempted to think God was opposed to him.

The international sex abuse crisis has involved revelations of the deep wounding of innocent children and their families by the sinful actions of individual priests and religious, sometimes enabled by the, at best, incompetence and, at worst, callous dereliction of duty of some members of the Church's hierarchy.

barton not a very good footballer but a bit smarter than most of them and goes against the grain which i respect... but he is right on this wenger had the chance to bring in cb and cdm but buggered (sic) off to the vatican instead... repenting his numerous football sins of the last 10 years is one thing this was just dereliction of duty

It is clearly the best magazine in its field — competent, useful, often amusing and commendably responsible in its postures with respect to boxing chicanery and allied derelictions in the whole area of sports activity.

Or with Iwobis dereliction duties, Oxlade playing central, yet, still Perez gets overlooked.

Unite, Britain's biggest union, has branded BAE Systems» decision to end manufacturing at Brough in Yorkshire, as a «disgraceful dereliction of duty to a world class workforce».

It is an unlawful dereliction of public duty to deny a constituent like me the free right to an investigation that is warranted, based on a totally credible body of evidence that has cleared my name of wrongdoing.

However, the 14 members of the New York State Canal Mitigation Task Force never convened, not even for a single session, prompting outrage from Republican Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, who told WAMC: «This was a total dereliction of duty because not one meeting, not one report, and they could have done some important work over the years... we can't afford to have «ghost ship» commissions with commissioners who aren't meeting who are getting paid on the taxpayers» dime.»

Is this the counsel of despair, a bleak dereliction of national duty?

It's not Gaines» disregard for the death and destruction around him or his blatant dereliction of duty that turns the story around him to rubble.

The Justseeds Cooperative show at the UW - Milwaukee Union (through April 3) brings a sense of urban dereliction into the rarefied gallery setting.

Without a billionaire to blame, or a school reform nemesis to rally against, this is a rare occurrence of outrage fatigue and activist dereliction.

Euphemistic terms such as «incompetency» are ambiguous at best and may be interpreted as concerning dereliction of duty rather than ineffectiveness.

«The past dereliction of duty on the part of many school districts to serve our students, and the failure of TEA to hold districts accountable, are worthy of criticism,» said Governor Abbott.

As an independent consultant and developmental editor myself, I can tell you that it would be an unethical dereliction of duty for me to allow mistakes, redundancies, or lapses in plot and character.

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Nigel Cooke's paintings construct a dark and melancholic world; a deeply psychologised landscape filled with an atmosphere that articulates the trauma of creative dereliction.

Mark Gisbourne, «From Domestic Bliss to Dereliction Chic», Contemporary Visual Arts, (illus.)

The abiding image of this year's Turner Prize will not be the poignant, graffiti - scarred hulk of Rachel Whiteread's House, marooned in the swirling dereliction of the East End, nor even Vong Phaophanit's gently undulating rice dunes inside the Tate.

«Green Island», a solo exhibition by João Vasco Paiva takes land cityscapes as a starting point to deconstruct various states of ambivalence, framed ideals of the urbanised versus the natural, the push and pull between construction and eventual dereliction.

That you can frame a manifesto as addressing «Five Giant Challenges» and not mention the biggest long term challenge of all is not exactly surprising given everything we know about May's team and target audience, but it remains a remarkable dereliction of duty.

... I also want to tell you, I don't know why lawyers do this, and there's a lot of them in the room so take heed, all of you, language like failures are staggering, violations of this magnitude rarely occur, stunning display of incompetence, bitter irony, breathtaking dereliction of duty are not only unpersuasive, they're somewhat annoying.

«Even assuming, solely for the sake of argument, that Mr. Troy had a duty to supervise Ms. Franco and was somehow derelict in discharging that duty, such dereliction falls well short of the standard to impose sanctions,» Hammer wrote.

Medical malpractice is the provable dereliction of duty of care from a medical professional toward a patient.

The Michigan Supreme Court called it a «medical and legal dereliction,» further stating, «To summarize, plaintiff now has no negligence claim and no medical malpractice claim, all despite the fact that (a) defendant - hospital openly admitted negligence, (b) a jury determined that this negligence constituted the plaintiff's cause of death, and (c) a jury awarded plaintiff a $ 20 million verdict.»