Sentence examples for abrogate responsibility from inspiring English sources

"By simplistically condemning or absolving them, we abrogate responsibility for the dilemmas that science and scientists face, always and everywhere".

All this is not to say that the new treasury secretary should abrogate responsibilities on matters of domestic policies.

Why do you think humor is so important in leadership? A. In countries like Singapore and China there is a culture of deference to seniority and to authority, but as they do, they also often abrogate responsibilities, they don't take control.

Or has our society simply abrogated responsibility for care of the dispossessed?

The NHS Act abrogated responsibility for the nation's health from the Secretary of State.

The court would not tolerate the situation where someone takes on the directorship of so many companies and then totally abrogates responsibility.

Now is not the time for government to abrogate its responsibility to the people.

He said: "Government cannot at any stage simply abrogate its responsibility.

Fry says that doesn't mean the military can abrogate all responsibility; it should accept that damage is done, and do everything it can to help those in service who are suffering.

So it was, I felt, not the first, but it certainly I wasn't going to also abrogate my responsibility and not say anything.

Other critics charge that by disparaging individual decision-making, the Watch Tower Society cultivates a system of unquestioning obedience in which Witnesses abrogate all responsibility and rights over their personal lives.