Sentence examples for shirks from inspiring English sources

The longer the federal government shirks its responsibility, the less the private sector's faith in government will be and the less its investment.These eight priorities are not all that America must do to restore its competitiveness (tackling K-12 education and health care will take longer than three years).

This means that they need lubrication, are impaired by magnetism, shock, heat and cold, and wear out.Silicon shirks these problems.

Mr Clinton, who feels the greater need to be liked, shirks confrontation and seeks the words his audience wants to hear.The president is more of a policy wonk.

Slimmed down to a pure imaging company, and still armed with a strong brand and a huge distribution network, Xerox might regain some of its lustre.But if Mr Allaire shirks from such radical surgery, the company could become vulnerable to a takeover bid; or, more likely, the indignity of being pulled apart by a financial buyer.

She is planning to have lunch with George Bush on June 6th, the opening day of the summit, in the hopes of breaking the deadlock.America is not happy with the notion that it shirks its responsibilities to the planet, but nor does it want to sign up to tough emissions targets.

Prospectors measure out the days of life remaining to them in cups of flour; an Indian reckons his dwindling hours by the number of sticks he has left to burn; "shirks and chronic grumblers" are punished by being left to one another's company, which dooms them.

Allen said that the Italian navy's "desperately needed" search-and-rescue operation in the Mediterranean had saved thousands of lives and other European countries should be stepping up to share that responsibility with them, not shirking it.

Libin is bullish on the potential of these devices, without shirking some of their current challenges.

Related: The fight to free Nigeria's girls from Boko Haram must continue | Gordon Brown South Africans assisted the controversial US security company Blackwater in Iraq, Steyl added, and were now willing to do dirty work in Nigeria that western powers shirked.

They are being beaten harder than anyone else; yet no amount of guff about shirking will suddenly make them less disabled.

As the chief executive, you are not allowed to shirk your responsibility.