Sentence examples for dereliction the from inspiring English sources

With this act of moral dereliction, the British Empire finally disowned its noble sense of mission.

Seabrook gives a memorable picture of dereliction: "The city of men had become a city of animals.

And there is rich possibility for insensitivity to those people who are compelled to live their lives in a context of dereliction: the thousands of homeless who inhabit the storm-drain network beneath Las Vegas, for instance.

Although Saro-Wiwa is occasionally ground down by the disorder and the dereliction, the chaos and the corruption – and is clearly less comfortable in the north – her tone throughout is one of wry amusement.

Pinter had become an increasingly vocal political activist, culminating in his Nobel Lecture, in which he admonished the United States government for its foreign policy, especially involving Iraq, and its moral dereliction: "The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law.

The gatefold features monochrome photographs of the dereliction around the power station.

Down amid the eerie dereliction, both the allure and the scepticism are understandable.

Margaret Jaconelli and her family had lived here alone in the dereliction for the past five years.

(During this period the road now known as Yesler Way won the nickname "Skid Road", supposedly after the timber skidding down the hill to Henry Yesler's sawmill. The later dereliction of the area may be a possible origin for the term which later entered the wider American lexicon as Skid Row).

"Policies that reward executives out of proportion to the value they create are a clear dereliction of the duty to promote the success of the company for the long term," he added.

Nearly 20 years after being bought by the hotelier André Balazs and revived from near-dereliction, the Chateau (in local parlance) is enjoying the peak of its own celebrity.