Sentence examples for total abdication from inspiring English sources

Pulling out of Kyoto was "a total abdication of our responsibilities", said Hannah McKinnon of Climate Action Network Canada.

But he cannot escape responsibility for the total abdication of meaningful political leadership on an issue of such overarching importance.

The domestic reaction was equally fierce with the announcement by Canada's environment minister, Peter Kent, described as "shameful" and "a total abdication of our responsibilities".

In Thomas's view, this history amounts to an almost total abdication by the Framers in favor of the rights of the states.

Hannah McKinnon of Climate Action Network Canada said formally withdrawing was a slap in the face of the international community and "a total abdication of our responsibilities".

For those that could be, "I believe in an industrial strategy, not total abdication," he says.There is much talk in the car industry about how to improve small companies' access to credit by offering a 95% government guarantee on bank loans, for example, or by making direct government lending available, on commercial terms.

Firth's big Academy award-winning film (which won four Oscars in total, including best picture), the story of George VI's struggle with his speech impediment after the abdication of Edward VIII was unanimously applauded by critics.

It constitutes moral abdication.

But it sure felt like an abdication.

The moral abdication was intentional.

Here instead was an abdication.