Sentence examples for shirk for from inspiring English sources

Loren Shirk, for example, a networking engineer in Duarte, Calif., doesn't keep to the designated trails when he drives his Chevy Blazer over the sand dunes near Barstow, Calif., he said.

Because of the threat of unemployment, the incentives to shirk for employees decrease in high unemployment states in which it would be hard to find a new job in case of dismissal, while shirking increases, for the opposite reason, when labor markets are tight.

It felt mighty good to shirk for once the shameful role of the whining poor victim who endures abuse because it seemed inevitable.

We thank Brandon T. Bullock and Erin Shirk for technical assistance as well as the rest of the Retrovirus Laboratory for helpful discussions.

The trustees who really care about the place will have to face the responsibilities they have shirked for so many years.

But the Socialists "won't be shirking for very much longer because the moment of truth will arrive at some point; it's arriving for the minister," said Mr. Barnier, citing Germany's better economy "under the same commission".

But monitoring is problematic: in the absence of perfect information, the principal will not be able to tell whether the agent has failed to perform or, if there is a failure to produce the required services, whether the agent was responsible for that failure (by shirking, for example) or whether it is due to unforeseen circumstances [ 25].

While Texas prosecutors will not shirk from asking for death sentences for the most egregious murders, Cole said, their risk-v-reward calculations have evolved.

This could offset the tendency of some governments to shirk responsibility for providing for these groups by labeling them as 'special interest groups' or those who make specific 'life style choices.' A 'normal' public health response is also necessarily adaptable; most at risk population groups are not static.

She also said the United States was trying to shirk responsibility for the collision, and for what China considers the illegal violation of its borders when the American plane made an emergency landing in Hainan.

We often shirk from responsibility for our share of the mess and hope that others will do the clean-up.