Sentence examples for abandon the responsibilities from inspiring English sources

In effect, McClellan was demanding that Lincoln abandon the responsibilities of his office and the platform of his party, and turn power over to the general who had just lost the war's greatest battle at the time.

"They're threatening to abandon the Senate's responsibilities," Reid said on response on Tuesday.

Nor is she a walk in the park; clearly resentful of her partner's literary success, she blames him for the songs she has never sung, the freedoms she has abandoned, the suffocating responsibilities she took on in his absence.

Two elements of this consensus — market deregulation and the liberalization of capital flows — helped create enormous pools of global credit, making it "easier for short-termist governments to abandon the principle of fiscal responsibility," since spending not financed through tax hikes could be financed by foreign loans, he says.

Yet we ought not entirely abandon the notion of personal responsibility in the process, unless we are willing to do the truly difficult work of looking in the societal mirror and ascribing blame to a culture of violence in which we all participate.

With Cameron prepared to abandon the principle of collective cabinet responsibility over Brexit, a Corbyn shadow cabinet including some pro-Trident members should not appear so strange.

One important way to make this happen is to institute programs and activities that educate men and boys to take responsibility and to abandon the attitudes and practices that perpetuate violence.

Mr. Daschle said that by abandoning the negotiations, the responsibility for economic suffering now rested with the Republicans.

"The G-20 has successfully moved toward becoming a global economic steering committee, but perhaps at the expense of abandoning the core crisis response responsibility that gave it birth," he said.

"I manage it on behalf of my whole family, and I can't abandon that responsibility," he says.

Governments should not abandon this responsibility to private markets.