Sentence examples for The dereliction from inspiring English sources

(The dereliction that most appalled Follett was the Third's refusal to reject "that darling of the advanced libertarians," the use of "like" as a conjunction).

The dereliction can be agonising for people struggling to keep a roof above their heads in one of the world's most expensive cities.

The dereliction of duty by the then National Coal Board, the culpability of its mining engineers, and the refusal of its chairman Alf Robens to resign as a matter of honour, still seem shocking.

The dereliction of service by the media is truly remarkable.

That's the dereliction of duty".

He is the personification of the dereliction of duty.

It is not ehe derelictions of the press but the derelictions of the Charter-writers that make the news sensational.

There aren't enough hours in the day to inventory the derelictions of Bandy Dorner, a convicted cop-killer who punctuates his 18-year sentence by smashing in the skull of his closest prison buddy.

(During this period the road now known as Yesler Way won the nickname "Skid Road", supposedly after the timber skidding down the hill to Henry Yesler's sawmill. The later dereliction of the area may be a possible origin for the term which later entered the wider American lexicon as Skid Row).

Down amid the eerie dereliction, both the allure and the scepticism are understandable.

This caught the attention of the House of Lords, which in March pinned the firms' "dereliction of duty" in the financial crisis, in part, on their oligopoly.