Sentence examples for simple dereliction from inspiring English sources
The citizens of a tornado-prone state live with signs of storms past, details that, to an outsider, might appear to be simple dereliction or sentimentality: a barn, left to rot where it fell; a utility pole in slight, benign tilt; a modest, homemade cross marking the place on the road where the car spun, fatally, into a ditch.
Page E1 Peace on Earth and at Dinner E2 Editorial E.P.A.'S DOCTOR NO For years, the Bush administration has waged a campaign of scientific obfuscation, political flimflam and simple dereliction of duty to ensure that the administration did as little as possible about climate change.
Most of the time, when there is theft of goods, leaking of confidential information, dereliction of duty or outright sabotage, the reason really is something simple like wanting to get back at someone within the company or at the company as a whole.
Dereliction of duty, indeed.
The problem of sewer dereliction is immense.
Seaside dereliction a-plenty.
Anything less would be dereliction.
His dereliction could not have justified yours.
It would be a dereliction.
