Sentences with phrase «of abdicating his responsibility»

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!).

But not a fan of abdicating responsibility to automation.

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.

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

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

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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 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.

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..

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!»

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.

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.

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.

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

So far his strategy has been to avoid taking a firm and coherent position on whether Britain should be In or Out by abdicating responsibility to the public in a future referendum, in what has become the central plank of the Conservative's European election campaign.

The task force «has abdicated its responsibility to serve the needs of the community and instead has served the needs of its politicians,» said Bob Friedrich, president of the Glen Oaks Village co-op and founder of EQU.

This contrasts with an Attorney - General who abdicates his constitutional responsibilities and becomes a mere conduit for executive actions in the issuance of political White Papers contrary to the Constitution.

In his ruling, Justice Baba Yusuf said that that it was the responsibility of the prosecution to produce the defendant in court as required by law but regretted that the prosecution has unfortunately abdicated this responsibility today as far as this case is concerned.

It abdicates those who've lost these votes of any responsibility for their own untruths.

The Force will not be intimidated by any individual, groups or institution, constituent or otherwise to abdicate from its constitutional responsibilities of protection of lives and property and due enforcement of the rule of law, and law and order across the Country.

«Dumping suspect citizens like toxic waste, abdicating your responsibilities to the international community, is a very strange way of promoting the rule of law,» said director Shami Chakrabarti.

NYC Councilmember Ritchie Torres, Chair of the Committee on Public Housing: «For too long the state has abdicated its responsibility to public housing and complacently accepted its rapid decline.

«One of the reasons Buhari was voted in was the belief that he would be able to deal with Nigeria's exigencies, not to come in, pass the buck, and abdicate responsibility.

«You've had to fight the onslaught of cheap overseas labor and companies abdicating their American responsibility to stay here,» Katko said.

But the report does not abdicate poorer countries of responsibility, noting that their emissions now exceed those of high - income nations and that slowing that growth is «essential to avoiding dangerous climate change.»

The severity of Toller's convictions, as well as his disgust at the knowledge that his church has taken money from one of the town's biggest polluters, gives rise to an angry, confrontational question: Why have so many Christians rejected the science of climate change, effectively abdicated their God - given responsibility to look after the Earth?

In fact, many of the charter sector's quality headaches stem from school boards that abdicate their responsibilities as charter school authorizers, a role they probably never wanted to play in the first place.

They shouldn't abdicate their responsibility to the children of California.»

Terry Wilhelm discusses the balance of giving teachers responsibility without abdicating authority in «How Principals Cultivate Shared Leadership».

Some readers of this blog will call it «blaming the parents,» but when did parents get the right to abdicate all responsibility for their child's development?

Marshall concluded, «COPAA believes the purpose of a voucher is to provide choice, not to deny rights or abdicate responsibility.

The government here is not abdicating its responsibilities but rather creating new networks of services, utilizing more resources than before.

Elon Musk made clear at a press conference that the automatic lane change feature is not yet at the point where drivers can abdicate responsibility in the case of an accident.

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 with Paula that you do abdicate some of the responsibility when listening to an audio book but, when the book is well read, that's a trade off that I'm more than happy to make.

Worse still, this light - touch regulation, where the company all but abdicates responsibility for what it sells, is part of Amazon's business model.

There is plenty of player agency in Xenoblade Chronicles, but it doesn't abdicate the developers from their responsibility to tell me an interesting story about interesting characters doing interesting things that presumbly come together in an interesting conclusion.

When not abdicating their responsibility to render judgment on the most vexing games, they cling to rudimentary notions of value, questioning a game's length but not its grotesque sexual violence.

If those interpretations include potential bad effects do we really want the scientists to abdicate their responsibilities as citizens to help the rest of us understand?

The Convention on Biodiversity and Law of the Sea have not succeeded in advancing their respective causes, but my personal view is that the U.S. has abdicated its responsibility by not ratifying, giving other nations even more cover to behave with extremely narrow viewpoints of national sovereignty, from Russia to China to Brazil to India.

«Of course, $ 10 million in R&D support is measly against the roughly $ 1 billion the Energy Department suggests would be needed to really deploy EGS on a mass scale...» The Energy Dept. can «suggest» all it wants but for decades it has abdicated its responsibilities to the public in favor of Big Oil and Big AutOf course, $ 10 million in R&D support is measly against the roughly $ 1 billion the Energy Department suggests would be needed to really deploy EGS on a mass scale...» The Energy Dept. can «suggest» all it wants but for decades it has abdicated its responsibilities to the public in favor of Big Oil and Big Autof Big Oil and Big Auto.

«While the federal government abdicates its responsibility on climate change, governors do not have the luxury of denying a scientific reality, and it is more important than ever for states to take collective, common sense action,» Governor Cuomo said.