Sentence examples for to dereliction from inspiring English sources

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to dereliction

noun

Willful neglect of one's duty

  • The new soldier did not clean his cabin and was scolded for dereliction and disobedience.

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Now areas have been abandoned to dereliction.

This could add to dereliction in failing UK high streets, he said.

Staff Sergeant Joseph Chamblin pleaded guilty at a court-martial to dereliction of duty.

(The charge was subsequently reduced to dereliction of duty and ultimately dismissed).

The charge was eventually reduced to dereliction of duty and dismissed on July 15.

"When you think that that house was nearly lost to dereliction," Mr. FitzGerald said.

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"Despite multiple requests by the State of Texas, the federal government lacks the capability or the will to distinguish the dangerous from the harmless, and Texas will not be an accomplice to such dereliction of duty to the American people," Abbott said in a statement last week.

In their suit, filed in US federal court on Monday, producers claim actions taken by the critically acclaimed director of Morvern Callar and We Need to Talk About Kevin amounted to a dereliction of duties which led to production delays on the movie.

"Anytime you can bring attention to an unjust corporate move, to a dereliction in our laws that is against the people … that to me is worth the time I spent underneath the bulldozer and in jail," said Glover, 61, of Alpine, Texas.

Another feature of the argument offered to defend dereliction of duty is to suggest that this risk that the HCW takes with his or her own health is a fixed variable, and thus should be considered as an exception to duty.

In their suit, producers claim her departure amounted to a dereliction of duties which led to production delays on the movie.

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