Sentence examples for they abdicated that from inspiring English sources

But they abdicated that role.

According to Siegel, politicians used to be serious, but they abdicated that role to journalists who exposed political deceit during the Vietnam War.

On this occasion, politicians at the New York ceremonies recalling the attack abdicated that responsibility, choosing to recite famous words from the past, from the Gettysburg Address, the Declaration of Independence and Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1941 Four Freedoms speech, instead of writing new ones of their own.

When journalists abdicate that obligation and become mere stenographers, they corrupt the public debate.

"In a nation of 1.3 billion people, with the complex issues they face, with such resource deprivation, would it be wise for the government to abdicate that responsibility to S.O.E.'s?" he asked, using the abbreviation for state owned enterprises.

On the other, it seems to be abdicating that role.

"We don't want to abdicate that promise," says Cristián Larroulet, the president's chief-of-staff.

To abdicate that investment and opportunity would seem a terrible shame, but it doesn't mean we have to see Europeans as enemies we have to vanquish".

Above all, however, it was General MacArthur's decision not to have the emperor indicted for war crimes, nor even allowed to abdicate, that did more than anything to heal the Japanese psyche.

"It has always been the judicial branch's role" to serve as a check on abuses, he began, but the President had asked them "to abdicate that role here, to reinstate the executive order without meaningful judicial review, and to throw this country back into chaos".

However, it would be wrong for me to abdicate that responsibility at this time and walk away and it would be wrong for the club.