Sentences with phrase «evades responsibility»

There are dangers in praying for material goods, for such petition easily passes over into a selfish demand which evades responsibility, or into the expectation that a private miracle may be wrought in our behalf.

«If you create a platform that is meant for everyone in the world you will evade the responsibility to say what is or is not true in the world,» he writes.

Catholics have no moral credibility at the rank and file are still allowing their leadership to protect pedophiles and evade responsibilities their victims..

By declaring any of his property to be an offering, dedicated to God, a man might evade his responsibility to honor his parents.

Thus the primary center of ethical decision was within the individual, and like Ezekiel Jesus would have resisted any person's endeavor to evade responsibility for his own conduct.

Only to appease the priests and elders and to avoid a charge that he himself was disloyal to the emperor (cf. Jn 19:12), and only after trying various expedients to evade responsibility for the decision, did he finally consent to have Jesus put to death.

The disciples tried to evade their responsibility, but Jesus told them, «They need not go away, you give them something to eat.»

At this moment he loses his monarchy.2 Let us take note that this concerns us all, for now in Jesus Christ we are all invested with this power and we have no right to cloak ourselves in good theology in order to evade our responsibilities.

Rank describes a variety of ways in which human beings evade responsibility.

Moses, nothing daunted in his effort to evade responsibility, or at least to delay the hour of irrevocable decision, comes back with a third objection (4:1 - 9).

Judah's speech before Joseph is commendable because it does not evade responsibility.

As a preventive of dogmatism such considerations have their value, but they should not be used to evade responsibility for defining the limits of our knowledge and determining as far as we can the possibilities of the matter.

No one would dispute the idea that civil servants do need to be accountable for their actions, but equally the last thing we want to see is government ministers evading their responsibilities by blaming others.

«Oil companies, particularly Shell, have managed to evade responsibility for far too long.

The real terrorists, which I prefer to label «greedy f# * ks, are the corporations big enough to take their operations to third world companies where they can get away with paying people 40 cents a day, can evade all responsibility for shoddy buildings collapsing and killing / injuring a thousand people, where workers have to handle toxic chemicals without any protection (or lose their jobs) etc etc etc..

Note how the Brexit camp trying to evade responsibility for their dismal actions....

Councilman Jumaane Williams of Brooklyn, criticized Cuomo, who controls the MTA, for trying to evade responsibility for the agency and the subway's dysfunction.

have affordable housing ordinances, there's a long tradition of Jersey towns evading their responsibility through a loophole in state statute that allows municipalities to enter into Regional Contribution Agreements that let them pay off another town to take its share of affordable units.

dogmatic effort to... short - circuit community participation in school governance, (ii) evade its responsibility to assist struggling schools before summarily seeking their closure often to improperly make way for charter schools, and (iii) co-locate other favored programs without regard to squeezing out the students in «traditional» public schools from any fair allocation of school resources.

On the left, education politics is often about increasing funding while evading responsibility for results.

Meanwhile the state allowed districts such as Fairfax County to evade their responsibilities toward preparing all children for success in higher education and life through its Virginia Grade Level Alternative assessment regime, which allowed districts to offer low - quality curricula to kids they didn't want to work hard to education.

For the moment, and for the most part, governments and energy companies are keeping geoengineering research at arm's length, precisely because they fear being accused of evading their responsibilities.

Rich Countries Evading Responsibility But on a philosophical and operational level is where Renner really is uncommonly clear:

Following the case, Linda helped spearhead Thompsons Solicitors» new campaign called Patients Before Profits to close the legal loophole that allowed the private health company Spire to evade its responsibilities to the women.

«I readily appreciate that the deference owed to a trial court's findings of fact must not become a pretext for an appellate court to evade its responsibility to set aside an unreasonable verdict.

Deborah Bird Rose has criticised this approach as it manipulates concepts of time in order to evade responsibility:

The Toronto - based labour rights group will release a study Tuesday that makes sweeping recommendations for closing legislative loopholes it says allow employers to evade their responsibilities under Ontario's Employment Standards Act.

Not exact matches

«Additional statutory authority is necessary to put the United States in the strongest position to combat bad actors who seek to hide their financial dealings and evade their tax responsibilities.»

Evade direct, total responsibility for your wrongdoing, and you will not cease to do it.

@ total non sense Perhaps we're splitting hairs here, but I was trying to be kind by implying that rather than treating religiosity as a mental disability, for which the supposedly clinically sick can receive insurance benefits and evade personal actionable responsibility by claiming illness, it would be better to treat religiosity as a societal functional disorder which can be addressed through better education and a perceptional shift towards accepting scientific explanations for how the world works rather than relying on literal interpretations of ancient bronze age mythologies and their many derivations since.

All of this talk, animated by mistrust of religion, evades a central responsibility of the West toward itself and the rest of the world.

Many Catholics find such piety a bit of a bother, a good excuse to evade more important responsibilities.

This challenge presents itself in the form of three dangers: (1) the danger of a growing disparity between economic classes; (2) the danger of materialism, of the rewards of the economic system becoming the goals and values of society; and (3) the danger of a selfish pseudo-individualism that evades individual moral responsibility.

The author makes the assumption that people who consider themselves spiritual and not religious are evading some amount of responsibility to conform to religious principles and improve their character.

Complex as life is, to evade Christian decision on the basis of inadequate direction from Jesus is to evade moral responsibility on other grounds.

While the prophets were announcing these great messages of moral responsibility, of impending doom if these were evaded, and of the hope of divine deliverance of the faithful remnant through the coming Messiah, the political fortunes of the people were anything but such as to nourish this hope.

While there are undoubtedly many victims of drug abuse in our society, it is ridiculous to evade personal responsibility the way Reese did and blame the drug.

Your response reads to me like you are trying to evade your own responsibility by shifting the focus onto Dr. Amy.

The report did not recommend this helpline be outsourced to the private sector, perhaps because the private sector has been most at fault in evading minimum wage responsibilities.

He evades questions, he pretends things are not in his power when they are, he dodges responsibility, he fails to live up to the promises he has made.

«He didn't take responsibility, he evaded it... What he did was resign because there was a federal investigation coming his way.

The film ultimately draws to a damning conclusion, arguing that WikiLeaks that once began as a decentralized publishing organisation, became more a tool to allow Assange to evade moral responsibility, not just for publishing classified information, but also for other misdemeanours in his private life.

He does, however, deliver a charming performance with a character who is perhaps using the Khaki Scouts as a means of evading reality and responsibilities.

Evading any filing responsibility in California is not advisable.

The text seeks to evade the museum's responsibility for its past focus on straight, white, male artists.

But in the UK we have the ICO to handle such matters and ensure that institutions such as CRU can not evade their FoI responsibilities, and they have made three rulings which have gone against CRU.

In yet another in a back - to - back - to - back nonstop series of amoral discussions and actions in the Trump White House, now we can watch them wiggle and maneuver to see just how much moral, legal and national responsibility they can get away with evading on the known most critical issue the world faces.

Rich countries are evading their historical responsibility for the bulk of emissions.

Even in civil matters, if the client instructs the lawyer: to lie to the judge, tells the lawyer not to produce court ordered documents, follows instructions to create fairy tale reasons why his / her client in not appearing, and other matter of ignoring, delaying or evading pre-determined legal responsibilities, a bright - line must be drawn.

The Court of Appeals concluded its review of Linton by saying: «Thus, Linton is essentially based upon the principle that the court will look with disfavor upon a party who attempts to evade contractually agreed upon spousal maintenance responsibilities by asserting a change of circumstances when the parties originally made their agreement with such changes in mind».