Sentences with phrase «of abdication of responsibility»

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«You must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love,» Edward VIII explained in his abdication speech in 1936.

In effect, this is an abdication of personal responsibility.

This motivation is evidenced in the frequent abdication of any personal moral responsibility to critically evaluate your alleged deity's behaviors.

Her flight to the commune is thus an abdication of responsibility.

We all like to slum it, sometimes, but to get too enthusiastic about pop culture materials or, worse, to take them seriously as objects of aesthetic judgment — well, that was an abdication of the critic's responsibilities, not to mention a sign of vulgar taste.

Lastly, I would again offer that these forms of apologetic responses to the depictions of genocide in the bible are little more than a Nuremberg Defense, i.e. the abdication of personal moral responsibility to evaluate a particular command in obedient deference to perceived authority.

In the name of racial loyalty, and in an effort to keep alive the sense of oppression that fueled the revolts of our youth, we have engaged in an almost criminal abdication of responsibility.

As for Abdication of responsibility, that is what the entire Jesus thing is all about.

In encourages judgmentalism, marginalization, and an abdication of responsibility.

Hawaiiguest, Let's see judgmentalism, marginaliztion, and abdication of responsibility, judge yourself, live separated from the world, and depend on God.

If «politics» is understood in this broad sense, then the church and theologians can not afford to stand above politics in the situations they find themselves, for to do so would be an abdication of their responsibility.

This «balance» is not only an abdication of moral responsibility; it is badly undercutting other Vatican goals in world politics.

And using the «word of God» as a way to justify evil behavior is just abdication of personal responsibility.

Any opinion that replaces reason, logic, search for truth, and tolerance with dogma, absolutism, ignorance, denial, abdication of responsibility, and self - forgiveness is absolutely NOT beneficial to humanity.

Again, debates about freewill and predestination continue in each century, whether the adversary of freedom is alleged, (all too often in abdication of personal responsibility!)

However, don't blame others for making «dangerous» products — this is just an abdication of responsibility if you fail to use the product correctly.

In my opinion, introducing a for - profit service provider into a public education environment amounts to an abdication of responsibility that does little more than put the corporation's well - being over the welfare of children.

This is a complete abdication of responsibility by our legislative leaders.

It is an abdication of responsibility.

If there was an abdication of responsibility, it was from those who forgot that when people propose a change to the status quo, especially a fundamental constitutional change, the emphasis rests with them to make their argument.

It would involve sacrifices (not flying seems like a basic first step, but most of us tend to justify it to ourselves quite easily) but waiting for the government to act before we do seems to be a complete abdication of our own personal responsibility.

«The mayor's current position of absolute zeroes is an irresponsible abdication of responsibility that kicks the can down the road for taxpayers.»

Failing to fill this vacancy would be a shameful abdication of one of the Senate's most essential Constitutional responsibilities.»

Barry Cozier, one of the representatives of the state's chief judge, said the executive members» approach amounted to an «abdication» of their responsibilities.

«There are, unfortunately, criminals in all kinds of professions, but if these charges are true, they represent three outrageous abdications of people's highest responsibility to the public,» Quinn said, referring to the high - profile arrests Tuesday that have rocked the New York political community.

«It would be a total abdication of our responsibility.»

A policy of non-enforcement that amounts to an abdication of an agency's statutory responsibilities could potentially be said to violate the Take Care Clause.

The tenant groups, who have come weekly to Albany and were involved in a protest that led to 60 arrests outside the governor's offices, call it an «abdication of responsibility and leadership.»

«I felt it would have been self - indulgent and an abdication of responsibility to continue in a job I loved,» she said.

Others look at the ongoing carnage — current estimates are of over 200,000 dead, nearly half of them civilians — and see a catastrophic abdication of moral and international responsibility.

«Failing to fill this vacancy would be a shameful abdication of one of the Senate's most essential constitutional responsibilities.»

Self - mockingly describing himself as «an out - of - touch lawyer who does not know the political realities», the crossbencher suggested the referendum had been «an extraordinary abdication by Parliament and representatives of the country of their own responsibilities.

They issued a report last November, attacking CFS for an «almost complete abdication of its responsibility» after major problems surfaced at the Nassau County Crime Lab.

There's a perverse logic to this abdication of responsibility.

But some still see the multiverse as an abdication of scientific responsibility: a fancier way of simply saying «coincidences happen».

The shot of McDormand walking away from the bewildered but relieved couple in a restaurant is «cool,» I guess, but the abdication of any responsibility toward another woman who might be in the same dangers she faced is demoralizing — and McDonagh doesn't know it.

This is an abdication of responsibility.»

Nothing is more tragic than the virtual abdication by the American high school of its responsibility for the mathematical and scientific education of the next generation, leaving U. S. 15 - year - olds below the industrial world average on math and science tests.

In the letter, the plaintiffs» attorneys say that the district «refuses to implement the Stull Act in complete abdication of its responsibility to its students, their parents, and the taxpayers of the district.»

Even if the school survived the chaos that would ensue, could we expect that the character of its students wouldn't be affected (adversely, in this case) by the message that such an abdication of responsibility would impart?

«The fact that the changes are being made without anything close to adequate preparation is a failure of leadership, a sign of a broken accountability system and, worse, an abdication of our moral responsibility to kids, particularly poor kids.

Richard Weissbourd, who led the study, said this revealed a «dumbfounding abdication of responsibility.»

It is the most recent example of an alarming trend — the abdication of responsibility by boards of education to publicly traded, profit - making companies whose bottom line is not education but the strength of their financial performance for their stockholders.

The view that prospective teachers are simply being college students and will likely outgrow their juvenile actions is an abdication of teacher educators» responsibility to prepare highly effective teachers.

The district «refuses to implement the Stull Act in complete abdication of its responsibility to its students, their parents and the taxpayers of the district,» states the letter, signed by attorney R. DeWitt Kirwan.

In his view, making readers the «new gatekeepers» of published work is an abdication of a writerly responsibility to make that work as strong as it can be.

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.

One is a complete abdication of responsibility.

The [Koons] exhibition's historical position as the last to fill the Breuer building is a travesty, an abdication of the museum's responsibility to balance aesthetic discernment with the forces of the marketplace.

Since global fossil fuel use is dominated by the G8, and since much deforestation involves raw material export to G8 countries, the failure to plainly address these issues is an abdication of responsibility.