The phrase "abdicated responsibility" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone who has relinquished or given up their duties or obligations.
Example: "The manager abdicated responsibility for the project's failure, leaving the team to deal with the consequences."
Alternatives: "renounced responsibility" or "shirked responsibility".
"It is hard to claim you're leading a country when you've abdicated responsibility and disappeared," Carney said.
In turn, the official ITV Football Twitter account abdicated responsibility, instead laying the blame at the feet of its Brazilian counterparts.
I had essentially abdicated responsibility for my own health and allowed it to get out of control, even though I was the chief executive of the NHS.
Many have instead either abdicated responsibility or gone out of their way to act irresponsibly, dumping the issue in the laps of the courts and the police.All this came to a head this week over Arizona's law SB1070.
For decades, governments around the world simply abdicated responsibility for this massive urban influx.
Poor patient compliance was also noted in two studies, which found that patients who were not motivated to participate in their own care via telecare [ 68] disassociated from the technology and abdicated responsibility for its use to healthcare staff [ 66].
Rabbatts, a former chair of Millwall and a former BBC governor, said that despite its commercial success the Premier League had abdicated its responsibility to "behave responsibly and have in place proper lines of accountability and good governance".
He told me that the agency had "simply abdicated" its responsibility.
Later generations were much more worried about their jobs, and abdicated community responsibility.
As Kristol noted, "one of the corruptions of the moment is that many Republicans in Congress have totally abdicated that responsibility".
True, but many doctors, it turns out, have largely abdicated that responsibility -- they rarely know what a drug costs, and as Shepherd mentioned, many learn about the properties of a given drug not from the medical literature but from company salesmen, who are paid to tell one-sided stories.
