Sentences with phrase «to abdicate»

The statement mirrors recent comments from Tesla's CEO Elon Musk: «The driver can not abdicate responsibility,» he said when launching the new feature.

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

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

He now warns of the risks of abdicating responsibility for parts of your business to someone else; in other words, giving control to someone who knows better how to complete the specific role or task.

The notorious Edward VIII, who abdicated in order to marry divorcée Wallis Simpson and later may have become a Nazi sympathizer, would have been a personality, an individual who ruled according to his whims.

One effect of this is that leading media almost completely abdicated from its critical and investigative task.

But, when Parliament abdicates from its constitutional duties and delegates these to a foreign, unelected, body, then it has lost its democratic mandate to govern, which can only be restored by an election or a referendum.

That's entirely appropriate: With the Trump administration abdicating leadership on climate and energy issues, this is really a time for leading states like Massachusetts to step up to the plate even more.

Giving control to students isn't the same as abdicating control of the classroom - but offering choices can motivate students to succeed.

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

Where the organs of government abdicate their responsibility to law - abiding, hard - working tax - paying citizens, it can be fairly called «institutional corruption».

This seems to me a misreading of Reed, who even at his most process - driven never abdicated the challenge of form, as Smith appears to do.

Or maybe John is better understood as an example of abdicating power, of evacuating one's rightful place as a center of influence in the lives of others, of burying talent in some unhealthy religious quest for humility.

Most of the time, grandparents get custody of their grandchildren through the back door, from parents who simply abdicate their parental responsibilities.

The Gbese Mantse has come under intense pressure from some Ghanaians to abdicate after vowing to do same...

The problem is that when one person is excluded, or totally abdicates responsibility, it means the other can mess things up with no monitoring or grow resentful at always having to do the detail....

It is not about abdicating authority as a parent, but about responding to the legitimate biological needs of a baby.

This parent abdicates and defers to others in his child's life - «If your teacher says so...» «If that's what grandma wants...» - creating an inconsistent patchwork of limits and love.

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.

When the Duke's love - struck elder brother abdicates the thrown upon his father's death, it is up to Albert to transform the stuttering Duke of York to King George VI, dignified king of England.

As the world waits to hear whether America will once again abdicate climate leadership, one thing is abundantly clear: We need a massive, international movement to speed up the transition to a low carbon economy.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said the United States abdicated its responsibility as a mediator on peace and Pence's planned visit to Bethlehem was scrapped.

Sheikha Al - Mayassa is the sister of Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al - Thani, who assumed the role of Qatar's emir when his father abdicated in June.

The so - called gatekeepers have abdicated much of their duty to agents and to bean counters all the while putting more and more restrictions on authors in contracts.

It is a corrupted body politic that now abdicates its responsbility to bring broader political values such as justice into play.

Our culture has, more than any other, abdicated before the world of It.

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.

Congress abdicated its war - making power decades ago.

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

Blindly abdicating such responsibilities puts you in target range for procedures and policies that may be detrimental to your sons and daughters.

While Washington abdicates its responsibility to keep the American people safe, New York is showing the way forward,» he said.

Glanz et al. (2006) reported that principals who were seen as instructional leaders collaborated with teacher leaders to supervise classroom teachers, while principals without instructional expertise abdicated supervision responsibility to teacher leaders.

In a shared leadership school, the principal maintains a delicate balance — giving teachers responsibility without abdicating all authority.

With Barnes & Noble and Amazon apparently abdicating any preemptive editorial control, it's now a free - for - all online.

A recent move in the world of science fiction publishing, however, suggests a slightly different model, in which publishers do not entirely abdicate the investor role that has traditionally been such a key part of their contribution to the publishing process.

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

«I say «most» because I have met people who essentially abdicate all decision - making to their advisor,» says DeGoey.

«Instead of taking an overt leadership position on climate finance action as the US abdicates responsibility, it is adopting a more under - the - radar path that will attract praise for its effect on expanding new energy technology globally while perhaps drawing less criticism for its support of fossil - fuel projects than if it were to take a more high - profile leadership role.»

At least the new letter signals that local elected leaders are unlikely to change course on addressing climate change even as the Republican - controlled Congress and Trump administration abdicate their responsibilities.

«In view of this strong presumption, we will abdicate judicial review only when Congress provides a «clear and convincing» indication that it intends to prohibit review.»

Univar's General Counsel, Jeffery Carr, is a pioneer in transforming his company's law function to pay lawyers for value rather than sheer hours worked, to focus on prevention of legal problems rather than only reaction after - the - fact, and to create coherent, client - led direction to outside counsel rather than abdicate client needs to inconsistent demands upon the business client imposed by multiple law firms outside it.

Why should a rational adult abdicate their common sense to an organization that claims (again without proof) to speak for this god.