Sentence examples for shirk conventions from inspiring English sources

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We would have followed a more direct route if we had just walked from the train station to her house, but after a morning spent in her company, I thought of the roundabout journey on the scooter as a preview of her conversational style, which tends to shirk conventions like linearity in the service of finding a more idiosyncratic route to its destination.

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Indeed, the vessels seem to shirk their associated conventional uses.

The authors shirked the usual convention of publishing in the most appropriate journal available by choosing not to publish in the ultra-specific Rangifer: Research, Management and Husbandry of Reindeer and Other Northern Ungulates.

"The UK government cannot shirk these responsibilities, under the refugee convention, in the middle of the worst refugee crisis since world war two.

While a number of practical considerations – including time, money and political will – certainly hamper the Convention's implementation and the establishment of new monitoring mechanisms, the world community cannot shirk its responsibility to protect children.

Others shirk the rules.

"O.K.," Shirk said.

All of these types of shirk are shirk ṣaghīr ("minor shirk") in comparison with polytheism.

They should not shirk it.

But he cannot shirk responsibility.

It was Shirk's father.

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