Sentence examples for dereliction in from inspiring English sources

This could add to dereliction in failing UK high streets, he said.

It will be a gross dereliction in duty if we fail to do so this summer.

But there is no dereliction in America quite like the dereliction found in European gardens.

In a blog post, one passenger described one of Jubba's Antonovs as a piece of "Soviet dereliction" in which a family of five sat piled into three seats.

One reviewer blasted the author for equating Pakistan with India, and his "cowardly dereliction" in not making religion, explicitly Islam, more central.

However, beneath the surface - as nagging and omnipresent as any gathering storm - lies a fury at years of American establishment dereliction in preparing for nature's onslaught.

In 1976 Solzhenitsyn moved to Vermont, and after making a badly received speech at Harvard about the west's derelictions in its dealings with the Soviet Union swore himself to public silence while working on a series of historical novels that continued the story of August 1914 19711) under the collective title of The Red Wheel.

The March inspector general report revealing "serious derelictions" in the misuse of department funds in Europe would become perfect ammunition to take down the secretary.

The media consensus from the opening salvo was that Spitzer must resign and he will be thrown to the dogs, which is unfortunate because, like Clinton, he has done much valuable work in the public interest, and the outrage over this personal dereliction, tawdry in the extreme, is excessive.

The shell-shocked hinterland of the Detroit suburbs doesn't make sense unless you've got your own vehicle: public transport is sporadic at best, and there's real dereliction visible in the crumbling sidewalks and hulking, empty buildings.

This caught the attention of the House of Lords, which in March pinned the firms' "dereliction of duty" in the financial crisis, in part, on their oligopoly.