They pull together sorrowful footage of stable neighborhoods — both prosperous and working-class — slipping into dereliction, with junk-laden yards, boarded-up doorways, squatters taking control of abandoned houses and charging rent to the homeless.
More likely Dubai will be a desert Detroit, a place of widespread dereliction with some money remaining at the centre but with ghost towns and squatted housing in the sweltering suburbs.
"I accuse the Supreme Council of dereliction and with helping to aggravate sectarian violence, of failing our revolution," she added.
Initially, these details are enlisted to summon wintriness and dereliction, perhaps with a political edge in the reference to Yeats's Easter, 1916 in line three.
Chabrol presents a jarringly unsentimental view of the town — he creates a Zola-esque fresco of rustic dereliction, filled with rampant poverty, deadening boredom, pervasive drinking, and crude sexual relations — and also a sharply sarcastic view of François, the intellectual who presumes to offer the benefits of his lofty wisdom.
Some of the accused have been charged with murder, others with dereliction of duty and failure to obey lawful orders.
Mattis charged four marines with murder and four officers with dereliction of duty; he recommended letters of censure for three other officers, essentially ending their careers.
Even if a conscientiously objecting health worker simply refused to engage either way with a woman in crisis, relying on the 1967 exemption to have nothing to do with her and her problem, that would be a dereliction: it conflicts with the duty of care medical personnel have to those in need.
This is the same team that's supposed to clean and refuel the vehicles, but their efforts seemed too few or too feeble to deal with the dereliction: I've found seats caked with mud, wiper fluid sputtering, gas tanks filled with fumes.
He has been charged with dereliction of duty.
Lieutenant Schwartz, the only officer among the defendants, is charged with dereliction of duty.
