Sentence examples for personal dereliction from inspiring English sources
He's up front about his own drug use and that of many other musicians in and out of his groups, and the blend of artistic exaltation and personal dereliction is painful to consider.
The media consensus from the opening salvo was that Spitzer must resign and he will be thrown to the dogs, which is unfortunate because, like Clinton, he has done much valuable work in the public interest, and the outrage over this personal dereliction, tawdry in the extreme, is excessive.
In "Rheingold," Fricka cries to her husband, "What is still sacred and good to your hearts when you men lust for power?" In "Walküre," where she appears only in the first scene of Act II, she intensifies the attack, portraying Wotan's waywardness not simply as a personal betrayal but also as a dereliction of godly values.
Director Comey's potential dereliction of duty when he allowed personal politics to affect his decision to release (meaningless) new information regarding the Hillary Clinton's emails right before the election.
He's using his position for a personal crusade in what, I think, is a serious dereliction of duty".
Yet the city's problems — the increasing dereliction of its physical infrastructure as well as the deterioration of personal security — seem to have done nothing to dent his enormous popularity among residents of Mexico City and, more widely, among Mexico's poor.
In the False Claims cases against Pfizer, GSK and Abbott, the underlying allegations involved marketing derelictions that potentially placed patients in harm's way or perhaps even caused personal injury or death.
Governor Sanford displayed a sad dereliction of duty in abandoning the people of the entire state of South Carolina, and his personal tour of redemption is now a disservice to the people of the Lowcountry".
Dereliction of duty, indeed.
