Sentences with phrase «just abdicate»

He does not just abdicate the responsibility of getting this process published; he guides when Nicholas gets stuck and is always available to answer questions.

The Liberal Democrat environment spokesman Steve Webb said: «The government can not just abdicate responsibility for fuel poverty.

And to have them just abdicate that responsibility for personal gain to me was, and is, particularly galling,» Lynch said.

She's right, in a way: For decades there was no fighting, just abdicating, as Democratic city officials gave the unions pretty much everything they wanted.

Not exact matches

But those who imagine monarchy to be useless in a democratic age might consider the case of Spain (a stable democracy that has just gone through a royal transition, with King Juan Carlos abdicating in favor of his son and heir, Felipe).

Isn't this just one more instance of pandering to children and abdicating our responsibility as adults to serve the most nutritious food possible?

Basically envision abdicating to some individual you've met online after some meeting, just to later discover that they're a totally extraordinary individual from what you thought at first.

But as Bertie begins to make progress, his life takes a dramatic turn when his brother Edward VIII (Pearce) abdicates the throne, leaving Bertie in place as George VI just as war breaks out with Germany.

But, just as the God King of Egypt (Bryan Brown) is set to abdicate his throne and bestow the crown on his son Horus (Nikolaj Coster - Waldau), the King's malevolent brother Set (Gerard Butler) swoops in with his army and proclaims himself to be the new King.

And speaking as a library trustee, I think we would be abdicating our responsibility to our patrons if we avoided all investment in e-books, just as it would have constituted a failure to serve our patrons if we'd decided to ignore VCR tapes and DVDs because of issues with those formats.

I agree, but virtually all authors abdicate responsibility in some way (even if it's just trusting Amazon to report and pay accurately).

You just have to not have abdicated your own judgement.

The outcome of those lawsuits will determine just how much the Trump administration is able to abdicate its responsibilities to protect public land and institute climate policy.

Resilience As a Dynamic, Cultivated Quality On the other hand is a deeper discussion of resilience as a dynamic state of being — something that we must aim for, cultivate, and nurture — not just celebrate as an inherent quality that abdicates responsibility for the rest of us.

You don't want to abdicate totally and just say, «Hey.

If this engine just returns «the answer», I'm abdicating the weighing of the source to someone else.