The phrase "avoid their responsibilities" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing individuals or groups who are neglecting or not fulfilling their duties or obligations.
Example: "Many employees tend to avoid their responsibilities when they feel overwhelmed by their workload."
Alternatives: "shirk their duties" or "neglect their obligations."
We have invested nearly £1bn in [HMRC] to relentlessly pursue those who avoid their responsibilities, and have significantly increased their yield targets.
"I strongly disagree with the statement that debt collectors, when acting as data furnishers, avoid their responsibilities to update those credit reports," she said.
"The vast majority of taxpayers play by the rules and the government will continue to take action to tackle the minority who seek to avoid their responsibilities.
"We need to end the era of tax havens which has allowed rich individuals and multinational companies to avoid their responsibilities to society by hiding ever increasing amounts of money offshore.
The work and pensions committee, which is chaired by Labour MP Frank Field, has called for the government to introduce a "nuclear deterrent" to stop companies or individuals trying to avoid their responsibilities to pension schemes.
Goldring said: "We need to end the era of tax havens which has allowed rich individuals and multinational companies to avoid their responsibilities to society by hiding ever increasing amounts of money offshore.
In Ames, Iowa, he added: "They're putting out a guideline to employers for the ways in which those employers can actually avoid their responsibility to workers, even as they're prepared to give people earning more than $200,000 a year yet another tax cut.
Problematic therapists are covertly defensive, always throwing the question of progress back in your lap and, therefore, appearing to avoid their responsibility for at least half of what's going on.
Meanwhile, later on at trial, these misunderstandings -- the perception that the young person did not try to avoid their responsibility for the crime -- can be used again against them as an example of not showing remorse, which is often a factor in deciding to charge juveniles as adults.
Deputy First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones, said: "This is yet another example of the UK Government side-lining Wales and avoiding their responsibilities to invest in our vital infrastructure.
