As the chief executive, you are not allowed to shirk your responsibility.
Ms Kosor vows not to shirk from public-spending cuts.
Mr Galbraith fears that in the name of fiscal restraint, taxpayers will shirk their responsibility to the country's most vulnerable citizens, who rely on public pensions and health care.
The ideal scenario for him would be to push through a tax increase before his presidency officially gets underway, giving him a bigger budget while allowing him to shirk the blame for raising taxes.
Some developing-country governments suspect this is a ruse by rich countries to shirk their responsibilities while making money out of the poor.
Now it increasingly models itself on Goldman Sachs which does not shirk from taking risk to the detriment of its other existing and potential businesses.
Mr Bowker does not shirk from showing this side of his subject, or the frustration of others at his profligate ways.However, there is no doubt in this biography over Joyce's skill as a writer, despite his failings as a husband and father.
That is shirk in law and in Sufism .But South Asians never have been terribly law-abiding.
