The phrase "avoiding their responsibility" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing individuals or groups who are not fulfilling their obligations or duties.
Example: "The committee has been criticized for avoiding their responsibility in addressing the community's concerns."
Alternatives: "shirking their duty" or "neglecting their obligations".
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.
Often, it is these States parties that show more zeal in avoiding their responsibilities than in partnering with the Committee on the Rights of the Child in promoting, protecting and supporting childrens rights.
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.
They indicate that just because the matter is of a religious nature it does not give the right to elected officials to avoid their responsibility on the matter.
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.
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.
