Sentence examples for this abdication from inspiring English sources

This abdication of responsibility has been even more remarkable than the president's assumption of new powers.

Unacceptable in itself, this abdication also raises the scary question of what other buildings the commission might choose to overlook in the future.

This abdication of responsibility was evidenced most markedly in Ken Livingstone's claim that de Menezes was, in fact, the 53rd victim of the 7 July London bombings.

This abdication of serious filmmaking by so much of Hollywood opened the way for Miramax to dominate this year's Oscar race, he said.

The Negro can precipitate this abdication because white Americans have never, in all their long history, been able to look on him as a man like themselves.

This abdication coincides with Beatrix's 75th birthday and, if anything, it will enhance her popularity – as many actors and pop stars discover too late, knowing when to stop is a true sign of wisdom.

Not only is this the abdication of the party's responsibility to defend some of the most vulnerable people in our society, but an amazing act of amnesia.

With the 75th anniversary of the abdication this December, the duchess seems set finally to make up for all those decades in exile – even if it is too late for her personally to benefit.

The decision is laughably easy, but detractors will call this an abdication of curatorial responsibility.

Both Democrats and Republicans are at fault for this apparent abdication of responsibility.

This moral abdication still puts him on a higher plane than Coburn, who has been a murky broker in Ensign's sexcapades.