Sentence examples for shunning responsibility from inspiring English sources

"There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum.

Politicians often blame Brussels for their own failures, shunning responsibility for decisions they had themselves endorsed behind closed doors.

As the show's heroine, Nancy Botwin, Ms. Parker is a 40-year-old girl shunning responsibility and never wrinkling.

But political opponents accused the prime minister of shunning responsibility for what the authorities have called a "national tragedy".

All demand restitution: the sergeant shuns responsibility.

"Yet Karzai continues to shun responsibility for any sovereign burden, whether defense, governance or development.

"Karzai continues to shun responsibility for any sovereign burden, whether defense, governance or development.

The decision-making process in Japan takes forever, because people shun responsibility".

And: Karzai continues to shun responsibility for any sovereign burden, whether defense, governance or development.

WASHINGTON — The United States ambassador in Kabul warned his superiors here in November that President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan "is not an adequate strategic partner" and "continues to shun responsibility for any sovereign burden," according to a classified cable that offers a much bleaker accounting of the risks of sending additional American troops to Afghanistan than was previously known.

Theory X assumes that most people prefer leisure to labor, are gullible, resist change, shun responsibility and prefer to be directed.