Sentence examples for abdicate the responsibility from inspiring English sources

States can either establish and operate their own exchanges, or abdicate the responsibility to the federal government.

No state can abdicate the responsibility to protect its people from crimes against humanity, let alone justify perpetrating such crimes itself".

I say all this as someone who has a view of the World Trade Center site from my apartment, but that does not mean I want us to abdicate the responsibilities of a free society.

Beijing's rulers need to know that the world is watching to see whether it will now use its influence to stop the killing in Myanmar — or again abdicate the responsibilities that come with real world leadership.

The results were so reliable that I have almost abdicated the responsibility.

"Journalists have abdicated the responsibility of listening to voters in favor of listening to polls as the primary diviner of meaning in political coverage," Mr. Rosenstiel said.

"Any government that says 'we will automatically do what Davies recommends' is abdicating the responsibility they were elected to exercise," she told a fringe meeting.

As attorney Reed Super explains, "EPA has the ability to set national standards that would protect the environment with readily-available and affordable technology, but has instead abdicated the responsibility to state agencies who are simply not equipped to make these decisions alone".

To place that burden on religious institutions is, as Dilulio said, "to abdicate the legitimate responsibility of government".

Apparently, the courts are now willing to abdicate this responsibility when the individual is a foreign national standing on his home soil – even where that individual is a child.

"In a nation of 1.3 billion people, with the complex issues they face, with such resource deprivation, would it be wise for the government to abdicate that responsibility to S.O.E.'s?" he asked, using the abbreviation for state owned enterprises.