It is extremely unlikely, unless some major catastrophe occurs, that the underground dereliction problem will ever attract a similar level of public attention and resources and the national drive, which was harnessed during the slum-clearance era.
Even if prosecutors failed to follow the guidelines in the AP matter -- which is possible, perhaps probable -- that dereliction and $2 will buy AP a cup of coffee.
The resistant Senate leadership's dereliction of duty will not go unnoticed by community activists aggrieved by the Court's non-decision on such an important matter as deferred action.
Given the judge's rationale essentially that there were too many cops involved to discern who fired the fatal shots it doesn't seem likely that any of the five police supervisors still awaiting trial for dereliction of duty will be found guilty.
Specialist Jeremy C. Sivits has pleaded guilty to dereliction of duty and will serve a year in jail.
"You'll be released in good time," he said, "so that you can go back to the compound, where you'll be more comfortable, but we all feel that, for the present, given your, what shall we say, recalcitrance, not to mention dereliction of duty, you'll be better off here.
Not replacing him as soon as he gets back home will be a dereliction of duly on the part of the CBF.
It will be a gross dereliction in duty if we fail to do so this summer.
But then on Monday, Queen Beatrix of my native Netherlands announced her abdication, and now British people are asking me if the Dutch will consider this a dereliction of duty.
But whether that is enough to turn round a country heading for dereliction any time soon or whether they will be allowed to try doing so is still doubtful.Correction: We said that Zimbabwe's official gold output in 1999 was 27m tonnes.
