Sentence examples for dereliction which from inspiring English sources

DRIVE into Liverpool from Manchester, and the signs of economic dereliction which once dominated the landscape are gone.

Each year, hundreds of soldiers are charged with various forms of dereliction, which essentially means failing to do one's job.

Any successor designated under paragraph (2)(A) as a result of the requirements of this paragraph shall have (with regard to the material involved) all duties and responsibilities imposed by this section upon his predecessor in office with regard to such material, except that he shall not be held responsible for any default or dereliction which occurred before his designation.

"It has left a legacy of environmental dereliction which is probably unrivalled anywhere in Scotland," he said.

This regulatory dereliction, which pleased the chemical industry no end, eventually erupted into scandal.

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.

Distressing as this is, at times it possesses an unduly mediated quality, lending an unfortunate cosiness that contrasts with harder edged, real-life accounts of dereliction (of which John Healy's The Grass Arena remains the classic).

A poem about the photograph of a soon-to-be-demolished wainwright's shop in Hungerford in the 1950s concerns time's inevitable destruction of common memory, of mundane certainties that have been made strange by the dereliction into which their very names have fallen: thill, strouters, shutlock.

But what can be said for certain is that Joe's failure to stay on message - a dereliction for which he has no one but himself to blame - has provided Lisa Murkowski an opportunity to win the general election that she did not have at the time she announced her write-in candidacy.

The charge of cowardice was later reduced to dereliction of duty, which carried a possible sentence of six months' confinement.

In their suit, producers claim her departure amounted to a dereliction of duties which led to production delays on the movie.