Even if a conscientiously objecting health worker simply refused to engage either way with a woman in crisis, relying on the 1967 exemption to have nothing to do with her and her problem, that would be a dereliction: it conflicts with the duty of care medical personnel have to those in need.
His utter inability to show compassion and to connect with scared, suffering Americans is a dereliction of his duties.
The tax repeal is a "dereliction of duty with respect to the rights of young people and future generations," says energy research expert Hugh Outhred of the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
Clegg's remark to Brown, midway through talks, that, "I wish we'd had the chance to get to know each other better before" was not just a polite nicety but pointed to a dereliction on both sides with huge ramifications.
It would be a dereliction.
Abstraction would be a dereliction of duty.
Was there a dereliction of duty?
"Anything less is a dereliction of duty.
It is a dereliction of duty".
But, if this was the selection meant by the second section of the act of 1860, the states could not be charged with any dereliction or neglect by reason of his delay.
