abdication of responsibility

That is not an argument so much as an abdication of responsibility.

To actually just sit back on the hands, as the government are doing, is not a policy, it's an abdication of responsibility.

Seems like an abdication of responsibility, given the challenging problems in the state's immediate future.

"There has been a basic abdication of responsibility for libraries at the state level," he said.

This is an abdication of responsibility that makes her a perpetrator as well.

In his view, this is an abdication of responsibility.

At worst, his absence seemed an arrogant abdication of responsibility.

"This is such a remarkable abdication of responsibility after the fact that it takes your breath away," he said.

"Abdication of responsibility is not part of the constitutional design."

But standing alone in so many important contexts connotes abdication of responsibility.

But it sounded, too, like a plea for permission, a small abdication of responsibility.

To burden the young and those yet to be born with such staggering bills is a clear abdication of responsibility.

But many scientists said the idea portended an alarming Government abdication of responsibility.

State lotteries, he suggested, were an abdication of responsibility.

Refusal to act is an abdication of responsibility.

That would be an unacceptable abdication of responsibility.

"I have surmised that Stanford's abdication of responsibility was complete," she concludes.

For you to reply to a question like this by merely setting out all the possible measures amounts to an abdication of responsibility.

"I still say it's more an abdication of responsibility," Ferracini said.

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

That abdication of responsibility cannot be allowed to continue at the expense of American lives, military readiness and international influence.

If he truly doesn't know how many missiles China has, it is a worrisome abdication of responsibilities.

"All of us are pretty disappointed with the abdication of responsibility by many unionist political leaders," he said.

Yet America's unwillingness to embrace a flawed treaty should not be read by our friends and allies as any abdication of responsibility.

This is an abdication of responsibility by state leadership at a time when the city cannot be forced to take any further measures in budget cutting.