That was an intolerable abdication of government responsibility.

The dance of our glances, challenge, abdication, effacement, the perfume of our consternation.

That position constituted an abdication of responsibility on the part of the developed countries.

In the view of the independent expert, such delegation by the Commission of Inquiry was an abdication of its responsibilities.

The real issue is how to achieve inclusiveness in the urban context Inclusion does not imply abdication of responsibility by formal structures of government.

CANBERRA When does acceptable diplomatic caution and realism become indefensible abdication of moral standards? Not everyone on the foreign policy frontline cares, but those who do often face deeply uncomfortable choices.

Regional involvement, whether in cooperation with the United Nations or in response to the Organization apos s abdication of its responsibility, had helped to stabilize situations of conflict in many regions.

It is against this backdrop of repeated violations by Ethiopia of the Algiers Peace Agreement and deplorable abdication of responsibility by the Security Council that resolution 1640 (2005) must be seen and gauged.

It goes beyond abdication of legal and moral responsibility in the border conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia to create a dangerous precedent to condone the violation of the rule of law and the integrity of arbitration processes.

Latent global demand for enlightened US leadership, which first appeared at the end of World War I, can survive budgetary constraints and even misguided military interventions. What it cannot survive is an abdication of interest by the US Congress.

It was difficult for the Alliance to see the so called flexibility being sought by some Annex I parties as anything less than an abdication of responsibility and an attempt to shift the onus onto the larger developing countries.

After all, managing for the short run encouraged mortgage lenders to offer artificially low teaser interest rates to lure potential homeowners. And then those who bought these mortgages never bothered to investigate their underlying value a spectacular abdication of managerial responsibility.

The death of Kuwait s ruler, Sheikh Jaber al Sabah, on January 15, 2006, was followed by unprecedented national disquiet, which led to the rapid abdication of his designated successor, Saad Al Sabah. Nothing like this had ever hit the Al Sabah family, which has ruled Kuwait for two centuries.

The voluntary abdication by Qatar s Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani in June 2013, and his replacement as Emir by his son Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, failed to satisfy Saudi expectations of change in Qatari foreign policy. And now the Kingdom has made it clear that it has reached the limits of its patience.

Vargas Llosa argued eloquently and elegantly that he could not vote for the daughter of a corrupt and repressive former president currently serving a 25 year prison sentence for human rights violations. But nor could he abstain or call for others to do so, since this would not only favor Keiko, but would also be a de facto abdication of the intellectuel engagé s responsibility.