Sentence examples for has abdicated responsibility from inspiring English sources
Constitutionally, it has abdicated responsibility for power.
David Cameron has "abdicated responsibility" on the environment and left Britain trailing the world on climate change, Ed Miliband says today.
The city, in encouraging this deluge of bicyclists upon us, has abdicated responsibility, and must begin to issue license plates and establish a set of regulations.
As a state prosecutor in Maine for more than 20 years, I have had a front-row seat as the mental health community has abdicated responsibility for untreated, and obviously unbalanced, individuals until they have committed a crime.
In states such as Arizona and Alabama, they have passed laws cracking down on illegal immigrants, on the grounds that the federal government has abdicated responsibility in that area.
For as things have got that bit more uncomfortable, far from seizing control of his own campaign, Cameron has abdicated responsibility to an uncertain mess of reporting lines, entangling George Osborne, Steve Hilton, Andy Coulson, George Bridges and the ubiquitous Michael Gove.
"Governments have abdicated responsibility.
The United States, they argued, has created a system of capitalism without capitalists, of private sector companies whose owners have abdicated responsibility for the companies that belong to them.
This slaughter is one of the central moral challenges we face today, yet Western governments have abdicated responsibility, and Western medical science is uninterested in diseases that kill only poor people.
'One could give money to programmes that provide prenatal care to poor women.' Wolf argues that women have become casual about abortion by their careless behaviour, they have abdicated responsibility, and therefore jeopardised their rights.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg unleashed a withering critique on Wednesday of how Congress and the White House have managed the economic recovery, saying Democrats and Republicans had abdicated responsibility in favor of partisan bickering, vilified success in corporate America and left the country lagging behind the rest of the world.
