Sentences with phrase «great abdication»
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).
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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».»
Sadly, though, his retreat post-1968 into impenetrable revolutionary agitation is one of the great artistic abdications of the 20th century.
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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.
The Wii U has basically become a console just for Nintendo games at this point, especially after the Great Third - Party Abdication of 2014.
It's huge (with a whopping 44 offices in 31 countries), has a longstanding reputation for representing the establishment (the firm's co-founder, George Allen, famously advised King Edward VIII during the abdication crisis of 1936) and offers great perks.