Sentence examples for grave dereliction from inspiring English sources
Even one public photograph constitutes a grave dereliction of duty as a parent.
"Failure to take the Oracle bid as a stalking horse would be a grave dereliction of your fiduciary duty," Mr. Icahn wrote Friday.
Elisabeth Rosenthal (NYT) SRI LANKA: POLICE ACCUSED IN SLAYINGS -- The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka said the police were guilty of "grave dereliction of duty" in the massacre of 27 detained Tamil rebels last month.
It highlighted inept border officials who allowed one of his wives to pass into Iran, inept municipal officials who failed to spot the unusual construction at his house, intelligence officials who hoarded information, and senior police officials who it deemed guilty of a "grave dereliction of duty".
Mr. Zhu "was a senior official who accepted enormous bribes and showed grave dereliction in his job, thus creating massive economic losses for the state and his enterprise," the news agency said, adding, "The circumstances of his offense are grave, and its nature is despicable".
"If humans are still around after a massive catastrophe," Bostrom told me, "they may look back and think it a grave dereliction that we did not do more to reduce existential risk.
Seaside dereliction a-plenty.
It would be a dereliction.
His dereliction could not have justified yours.
