The phrase "shirk accountability" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It means to avoid or evade taking responsibility for one's actions. Example: The CEO of the company was accused of shirking accountability for the company's financial losses by blaming it on external factors.
Soviet society itself was structured top-down, and collective responsibility was most often an excuse to shirk accountability and do nothing at all.
But also important, of course, is that schools not be burdened by bureaucracy-loving, to-heck-with-students unions that shirk accountability for student performance.
In contrast, critics of the society suggest that the society acts in secret to shirk accountability for any negative consequences of its activities.
Many legal experts agree that retroactive immunity would fortify the administration's strategy to shirk accountability and maintain secrecy around domestic spying.
Unfortunately, Murdoch shirked accountability for the hackings, blaming "those people I trusted".
Critics expressed concern that ANAK members were shirking accountability for "their mistakes, their bad ideas, and their bad decisions" under the guise of eschewing "praise for their accomplishments".
And yes, the media is largely responsible perpetuating these mindsets and misplaced preoccupations, but that doesn't mean we get to shirk all accountability.
It is a society where the politically powerful exploit their positions for their own benefit and shirk all forms of accountability.
The Iraqi Kurdish leadership "has cited the Islamic State threat as a reason to shirk any real legal accountability, and it seems the White House and State Department are willing to let them get away with it," Michael Rubin, an American Enterprise Institute expert on the Kurds, wrote in an email.
If we accept that culpability -- a big "if" in this accountability-shirking society -- we can start considering how to reduce our oil addiction so as to prevent such holocausts in the future.
Although the Cairo conference brought about stronger protections for women, there has been no real accountability for governments that shirk their obligations, such as El Salvador.
