Sentence examples for derelict of from inspiring English sources

It would be derelict of it not to".

"What am I derelict of?" he said in an interview on Thursday.

The government has been seriously derelict of its duties," he said.

After assigning posts according to individual capacities, the ruler should demand satisfactory performance of the responsibilities devolving on their posts and punish anyone who is derelict of duty or oversteps his power.

But with the Greek economy in freefall following the closure of banks – a move triggered by Tsipras's controversial decision to hold a referendum over lenders' demands for further austerity – many say it would be derelict of the government if it did not have some sort of contingency plan.

Beauty can so often be found in the most derelict of places.

And I said, 'Oh my God, what did I get myself into?'" What Mr. Kao, a youth counselor, got himself into was the transformation of a derelict turn-of-the-century tenement into an urban renewal success story.

It's the funeral of the modernity, It' the Ruskin's figure of derelict spaces of Detroit that slowly recolonized by nature.

The French government installed Rainilaiarivony in the Geryville neighborhood of Algiers, one of the derelict parts of town.

(Lear by now is a rustic vagabond; cf the classless derelicts of Samuel Beckett, and especially the crippled hero of Endgame).

Marsh was also fascinated with the derelicts of the Bowery, whom he painted nonjudgmentally and without a note of social protest.