Sentences with phrase «of abdicating»

However, don't fall into the trap of abdicating responsibility for the tasks you delegate.

Third, conservatives should be wary of abdicating responsibility for the pace and nature of greenhouse gas emission control policy to the EPA.

COLUMN ONE: Polluters Directing Cleanups: The EPA is accused of abdicating its responsibility and sacrificing public health.

But not a fan of abdicating responsibility to automation.

Buhari has a long and well - deserved reputation of abdicating administrative duties to other persons, whether as a military officer, politician or chief executive.

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.

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!).

So, that to me is frustrating because I've sort of abdicated responsibility for what generally is my largest liability in the hands of somebody else.

Not exact matches

After overseeing a prolonged period of restorations, the current owner feels ready to abdicate, but his staff of nine, including an on - site management couple, should stay on.

Should the federal government continue to abdicate leadership in key policy issues of health care, pension reform, Aboriginal issues, education and research, and modernizing Canada's infrastructure?

Treat your sales team as a vital part of the lead generation engine and don't abdicate that completely to marketing.

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.

I can tell you from personal experience that the choice of abortion is not taken lightly and it is not abdicating responsibility.

There is no more evidence that any «LORD» spoke to them and «anointed» anyone as king than that he spoke to the Duke of Windsor to abdicate so that eventually Queen Elizabeth would be «anointed» as the British monarch.

They have abdicated the «responsible» portion of «responsible journalism».

When adults voluntarily abdicate the use of power in favor of explanation, they are modeling appropriate behavior toward the weak on the part of the powerful.

The Christian who accepts violence, like the Christian who thinks he can ignore violence, has abdicated from Christianity as a way of life.

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).

When Diocletian and Maximinian abdicated, he became one of their successors.

In declining to do so he is thus abdicating already as the true king of Israel.

Among the movies condemned early on was Queen Christina, the story of the Swedish monarch who abdicated in 1654.

He gives a reminder that he is still the true king of his people, that it is he (and not this feeble king) who commands in Israel, delivers Israel, and serves as its commander - in - chief, that it is he also (and not this king that abdicates his responsibility) who himself bears all the suffering of this people, who takes it to himself and suffers it, that finally it is on him (and not on this blind king) that there falls all the evil committed among his people.

For who is this ineffectual God who failed to show up and claim her but a version of her father who abdicated and disappeared; who failed to protect her from what was going on in her home; who, in effect, «dropped» her before she was fully formed?

These renderings may suggest that Jesus abdicates in favor of the disciples.

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.

It also means that churches and religious schools and seminaries must take a new and completely different view of the profound role television is assuming in our culture, unless they are prepared to abdicate their own role as the place where people search and find meaning, faith and value for their lives.

Now that God has spoken, Jehu thinks he has abdicated in favor of man.

It became no less clear that Congress had almost completely abdicated its responsibilities to balance the power of the executive branch.

We abdicated the church to women because we did not want to take the responsibility and do the work of actually leading the church.

Sure, it can be a dirty business, but to disengage is to abdicate the stewardship we have as citizens of a democracy.

Yudhisthira, conscience - stricken at the vast sacrifice of life and property is about to abdicate his throne and become an ascetic.

Like the first version of the self that must be abdicated, this one is also profoundly self - centered.

This recovery of the symbolic function requires that the thinking subject be «humiliated»: that he abdicate his superior vantage point, given in the very semantics of the subject - object dichotomy.

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.

More often the self that needs to be abdicated is an insular self that is complacently oblivious of the particular reality of other creatures.

The head has abdicate it's responsibility to lead and make hard decisions that are unpopular for fear of losing donations and tax exemptions etc..

They appeared to have abdicated the task of provisioning their people spiritually in this public world, a world the people continued confusedly to occupy, with diminished influence, in order to make a living.

Of course, this scripture can also be bent into as an excuse to abdicate responsibility: «The earth is the Lord's, so let Him take care of it!&raquOf course, this scripture can also be bent into as an excuse to abdicate responsibility: «The earth is the Lord's, so let Him take care of it!&raquof it!»

Such an ideal, presumably would be a counterpart of the articulation of self - abdicating freedom, the «servile will.»

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.

Indeed, the bill is so poorly worded, some of them said, that it could be interpreted as abolishing basic property rights where museums are concerned and mandating the deaccession of such substantial portions of» their collections that they would be forced to abdicate their fiduciary responsibility — and thus be in violation of other laws.

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.

«Black / brown spaces are the center of gravity for Christianity, but white spaces are still the center of Christian power... There's no discussion of power dynamics or call to white Christians to abdicate power.

And this is where I believe a lot of the rhetoric against institutions falls down because not only does it most often ignore the central problem (heart issues), it also abdicates critics of their responsibility for their own heart issues and how it affects the situation.

Faced with the ultimate question of where the ordered energies of the universe and ordering laws of science themselves come from, many atheist materialists simply abdicate the search for truth and say that there is no reason.

They always can find some verse in the Bible to support the greed of the richest amongst us while abdicating their own responsibility to be disciples of Jesus.

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.

If Laura Stepp at CNN is to be believed, conservatives who oppose the use of contraceptives for religious reasons have lost their faith in science and are abdicating the use of their intellect in order to maintain an untenable position.