Of course they can be dangerous if used by criminals or the criminally irresponsible. |
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The headline was irresponsible because it was unrelated to the facts of the case. |
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It would be irresponsible to assert that information technologies can counteract any or all external economic shocks. |
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A gentleman complained that one morning his bank did not open on time, because the door key was mislaid by an irresponsible bank clerk. |
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It was irresponsible people who often misused such powers and knowledge for their own interests and to harm their enemies, he said. |
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It also, more disturbingly, shows us up as a people who are appallingly irresponsible, callous and who have devalued and degraded human life. |
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This is irresponsible and certainly unfair since, so far as the world was concerned, he was a perfectly blameless young man. |
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Who are these feckless, irresponsible moochers using bankruptcy to avoid paying legitimate debts? |
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The bishop attempts to deflect attention away from the source of the problem with irresponsible and alarmist honks and blats. |
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Yet young children, teenagers and irresponsible adults are carrying in hand and pocket highly explosive materials. |
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On a more down-to-earth level it was also considered an irresponsible age, typified by the character of Pheidippides in Aristophanes' Clouds. |
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They're quite unaccountable and irresponsible when it comes to litigation, and they can fight on on the taxpayers' money indefinitely. |
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The last thing we need is to have a bunch of pajama-clad amateurs muddying up the waters with their irresponsible guessing-games. |
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The Government-backed campaign will target irresponsible licensees and under-age drinkers between now and New Year's Day. |
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Both States had huge, irresponsible tax cuts which they paid for in part by bonding and borrowing. |
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I would be irresponsible to criticise all newspapers for the actions of a minority when the majority are unfeigned and responsible. |
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Given this bleak fiscal climate, these unfunded and underfunded mandates are irresponsible. |
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His domestic policy is unjust, inhumane, fiscally irresponsible, and amazingly uninformed. |
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It would be irresponsible if this outcome was to be repeated with nanotechnology. |
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Many of the bounty hunters use snare traps, which kill an irresponsible number of grizzly bears, elk, and moose, as well as wolves. |
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The intention of the opposition parties to boycott the poll is irresponsible in the extreme. |
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It is irresponsible that certain sections of local government have chosen to needlessly scare the public with unfounded and baseless accusations. |
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The entire Utahn culture is being devastated by this totally irresponsible policy. |
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So often we are subjected to erroneous and incorrect statements and irresponsible utterances from ignorant and unauthorised sources. |
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Can the public rely on you when you are so irresponsible you can't even find a venue for a meeting? |
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Teaching American history without stirring accounts of non-white heroes and cultures is irresponsible as well as divisive. |
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If the police were chasing the grey car, it was highly irresponsible, what with it being rush hour. |
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Dewar said that the argument should be conducted on the facts, not irresponsible scare-mongering on advertising hoardings. |
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I decided it would be irresponsible of me to leave without ensuring that they worked properly. So I had a swing for 5 minutes. |
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Men who want to avoid paying child support are seen as irresponsible playboys. |
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Making a generalised and sweeping statement on every politician and the whole system was an irresponsible act. |
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Some of the stuff he said was theologically ignorant and pastorally irresponsible. |
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Needless to say this evidence was used to refute the view that the gospel narratives are irresponsible fabrications. |
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I grow impatient with the victims, the helpless, the colluders, the conformists, the irresponsible, and the pseudoinnocents. |
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Giving complete novices the responsibility for reviving a feckless football team would, in itself, be irresponsible. |
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However, it is irresponsible for them to show such an indiscreet attitude to curry favor with voters. |
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We are appalled at the irresponsible attitude you have displayed in condoning such anti-social behaviour. |
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Pesticide storage areas should be placarded and locked away from children, irresponsible adults and animals. |
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A few weeks ago in Newry someone was irresponsible with fireworks and it resulted in an oil tank at the back of a property going on fire. |
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Here is where some utterly irresponsible opposition criticism becomes intolerably divisive. |
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The outcome of this irresponsible act is that we now have no bridge records at all with the exception of what is in my in tray. |
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Robert Balfour, the convenor of the Scottish Landowners Federation, said it would be irresponsible to walk through a growing food crop. |
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Teen drivers need to understand that irresponsible driving on the street is simply an invitation to disaster. |
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But since this was such a high profile case, the judge did not want to seem irresponsible. |
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Again, it must be associated with abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct. |
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Professor Coates's critics have called him irresponsible for declaring his personal decision. |
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And additional spending of that nature is seen to be fiscally irresponsible. |
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Card firms should stop sending unsolicited credit-card cheques to cardholders, which MPs regard as wholly irresponsible lending. |
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I think they are evading their responsibility in a grossly irresponsible way. |
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To have conducted the investigation in any other manner would have been grossly irresponsible. |
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I consider this crop circle story an example of very irresponsible reporting. |
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Perhaps they could be put to work decorating old buildings reclaimed from irresponsible owners. |
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What is being negated, in a totally irresponsible manner, is the uniqueness of the atomic bomb. |
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By contrast, socially irresponsible companies will gradually be abandoned and lose orders as well. |
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Call him irresponsible if you want, but Charlie Ford is going to ride around. |
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The letters and calls that hit the paper complained of irresponsible journalism. |
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It is irresponsible and it should not be engaged in, and it should not be countenanced. |
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The counsel will have a lot to say about your foolhardy irresponsible actions. |
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In so doing, the organisation can fracture families and, potentially, tie youngsters into a spiral of irresponsible and dangerous behaviour. |
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These facts are often used to depict Mary in a one-sided way as frivolous and irresponsible. |
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It would be irresponsible of the present Government not to ensure, as far as reasonably practicable, that British citizens are defended. |
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The Golden Rule will yield benefits for future generations and will discourage irresponsible spending on deadweight debt. |
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Tax payers are getting tired of always having to pay the dear price for the conduct of irresponsible and insensitive members of the public. |
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In some places, he used some harsh language to blame the irresponsible parents for their lack of support for their delinquent children. |
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We filled 13 large black bin bags with the varied detritus of irresponsible litter-bugs. |
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But his insulting treatment of a key ally shows him to be irresponsible, graceless and obsessively bent on winning office at all costs. |
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The school was grossly irresponsible for letting the students get that close to a wild, living thing. |
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There is a great deal of irresponsible leading going on and a downturn in the economy will expose it hurting all concerned. |
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It is perhaps irresponsible to address a subject that currently has so many weighty associations and deal with it using only anecdotal evidence. |
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I think that it is irresponsible of your newspaper to print the rantings of a woman who is merely interested in promoting her own biased views. |
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Police and district councils have joined forces to crack down on irresponsible raves which can put people at risk and cause misery to neighbours. |
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I think it was irresponsible of you to post the document without additional redactions. |
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I hope that at worst they are being mercenary and irresponsible and thoughtless. |
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To abandon the barely existent rights that animals are afforded is irresponsible at best, and sadistic at worst. |
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I believe that much of the thinking promoted by the liberal left is lazy at best and downright irresponsible at worst. |
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It could be deemed irresponsible to encourage patients to believe in alien abduction. |
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The participants have a reputation as lawless and irresponsible, the glamorous equivalent of Magaluf lager louts. |
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A Quigney shopkeeper, who wished to be anonymous, lambasted people's irresponsible behaviour during this period. |
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Carol is constantly being reprimanded for her childishly irresponsible antics by her disapproving child, Denise. |
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I had been branded as lazy and irresponsible, so it felt right when I, too, dropped out of college and wound up living back in Raleigh. |
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Legal anomalies and irresponsible GPs who over-prescribed forced a change in policy and a legal crackdown. |
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Idealistically believing we could usher in an Aquarian Age of Love was perhaps naive, but was not, and is not now, irresponsible. |
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I'll never do it again, because it was stupid and irresponsible and dumb, and I could have seriously gotten hurt or something. |
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It would be irresponsible to do otherwise or act on unverified reports regarding viral illness in the community. |
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But more than this, it seems to me to be an insane and irresponsible course of action if I'm reading the attorney aright. |
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It is irresponsible and reckless to loosely talk about one of the most divisive, hurtful symbols in American history. |
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If giving advice, advisers will have to consider whether you can afford the mortgage, in an attempt to stem irresponsible lending. |
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It makes me really sad to see how irresponsible, rude and bad-mannered many seem to be. |
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But it isn't only in the matter of sharing water that the states tend to act in an irresponsible manner. |
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Here was an explosive mixture of irresponsible talk and adolescent thrill-seeking. |
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Any such individual action would be irresponsible and unwarranted and would serve no useful purpose. |
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But do they emit overt commercial messages that fast and possibly irresponsible driving is a good thing? |
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I find the whole thing completely irresponsible, and this bill is just a token measure. |
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The MSM is a miasma of irresponsible, ideological improvisations, especially these days. |
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Bringing back confidence, ending irresponsible practices, and bringing shadow banking practices in to the real markets are priorities. |
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Two centuries of irresponsible coal mining has left Pennsylvania with more than 2,400 miles of streams polluted by acid mine drainage. |
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Young Henry, though, was ever feckless and irresponsible, concerned to cut a fine chivalric figure but utterly uninterested in the serious business of government. |
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Most vandals and yobs are created by irresponsible and neglectful parents. |
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Which, if you think about it, is a cheap and irresponsible trick. |
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Any member that is irresponsible dissolves the team trust because undependable people force others to interfere, complain and become uncooperative. |
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My concern is especially for the innocents who are maimed or killed though the irresponsible behaviour of the motorbike drivers causing the problems. |
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Ali Gharib said after the fact that he realized the comments were flippant and irresponsible. |
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My bias is that Congress tends to be parochial, irresponsible, and self-interested. |
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But what the BJP is doing now is totally irresponsible behaviour. |
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He is a motherless boy with an irresponsible alcoholic father, a fading rodeo star, who has trouble holding down a job and keeping the household together. |
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Authorities should use dana, veda and danda on irresponsible field staff. |
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What is it to say about the historical potency of people power in challenging systems of entrenched and irresponsible power of this kind, of which it is itself a part? |
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The report recommended that a monitoring system be set up to track prescriptions, that irresponsible prescribers be prosecuted and that further legislation be introduced. |
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Surely he has tacitly consented, despite his irresponsible attitude. |
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How short-sighted, irresponsible and narcissistic of people to have so many kids. |
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While the threat of irresponsible usage exists, research shows the benefits of social sharing outweigh the potential harm. |
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He claims it's unfair that businesses should be penalised for the actions of irresponsible customers and members of the public and has called for the law to be changed. |
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As a portrait of childhood in America, it is incomplete enough to be irresponsible. |
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This kind of irresponsible running of the mouth is precisely how medical conspiracies start. |
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When people want a legal opinion in detail, they must address their communications to us, individually, and not to irresponsible smatterers, like the chief editor. |
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The servers have not been maintained properly and the selection of passwords was irresponsible and showed a complete lack of attention to security. |
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It would be irresponsible to write his mobile-phone number on the wall of a public lavatory, along with an expression of enthusiasm for some barely legal perversity. |
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The film walks a fine line between the irresponsible glorification of violence and the telling of an allegorical tale to make a philosophical statement. |
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I only hope that no one was injured because of the brief and regretted irresponsible neglect of my Civic Duty in reporting that which I believe to be criminal. |
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The prime minister's belligerence is dangerously irresponsible. |
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Flying is nerve-wracking at the best of times, and it only takes one stupid and irresponsible person to turn a holiday flight into an airborne nightmare. |
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We feel the onslaught of television shows that promote and glamorize this destructive lifestyle are irresponsible and lead young impressionable children to wrong conclusions. |
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There are feckless and irresponsible young fathers out there. |
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But what is there more irresponsible than playing with the fire of an imagined civil war in the France of today? |
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And he pointed an accusatory finger beyond riders to irresponsible managers and the shady doctors who enable a doping culture. |
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Shareholder groups are increasingly important as challengers of irresponsible corporate governance, but there is an ironic and dangerous vicious circle here. |
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This is the language one traditionally associates with authoritarian rulers who regard social protests to be merely the work of irresponsible agitators. |
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But instead of prudently adjusting their behavior, they're being bizarrely short-sighted and irresponsible. |
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He regretted that if such irresponsible, poisonous and aggressive speeches were not stopped, they would cause irreparable loss to the country's secular warp and woof. |
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Many headteachers will feel that such a role could undermine the need to establish a constructive relationship with parents, however feckless and irresponsible they may be. |
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We seem to have a lot of sensible men in our laboratories at the moment but their words are being twisted and blown up in a quite irresponsible manner by the media. |
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A licensing bill, due to be introduced by the Scottish executive, will ban pubs and clubs from running irresponsible drinks promotions, including happy hours. |
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When a party does or says extreme and irresponsible things, that party builds itself an image as dangerous and untrustworthy. |
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Wouldn't it be more irresponsible of them to not take corrective action? |
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Of course, he wasn't stupid or irresponsible enough to abscond completely. |
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Now Independent councillor Jimmy Cudden is furious at what he sees as an irresponsible use of funds. |
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It is both irresponsible and disingenuous to talk about safe space as if translesbians make space unsafe. |
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More precisely, it is irresponsible to respond with a preemptive disgrace. |
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Shakespeare's Richard was a cruel, vindictive and irresponsible king, who attained a semblance of greatness only after his fall from power. |
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Their irresponsible decision-making impacts on the living standards of those often struggling to make the bread line and their families. |
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The long-term sustainability of our space environment is at serious risk from space debris and irresponsible actors. |
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Any extra fantasy outside the cardinal assumption immediately gives a touch of irresponsible silliness to the invention. |
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It is as yet unclear that continuing irresponsible expansion will be the gravamen of President Xi Jinping's foreign policy. |
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He was an avowed enemy of rampant spiritualizing and irresponsible allegory. |
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Sometimes overlooked is the fact that Alexander VI set about reforms of the increasingly irresponsible Curia. |
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Yet in most instances, the threat of impeachment effectively checked lawbreaking, irresponsible, or incompetent executives. |
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His submission is that he is of Mongolian extraction and irresponsible for his actions. Not all there, in fact. |
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Fireworks are now getting into the hands of under-age children, irresponsible youths and selfish adults who annoy neighbours, severely traumatise animals and damage property. |
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Diageo is embarking a new venture in which the company will fund technology start-ups to work on briefs like tackling irresponsible drinking and fighting retail theft. |
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The locals are aware of the irresponsible attitude of the Drinking Water and Irrigation Department but they do expect the SDM and Tahsildar to listen to their requests. |
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This protects products and patients from the risks of counterfeiting, diversionary practices and irresponsible pricing inherent in secondary and gray markets. |
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Admired in his own time and for centuries after, Edward was denounced as an irresponsible adventurer by later Whig historians such as William Stubbs. |
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In the document Laudato si', dated 24 May 2015, Pope Francis critiques consumerism and irresponsible development, and laments environmental degradation and global warming. |
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In a sense, Portmeiron is a gay, deliberately irresponsible reaction against the dull sterilities of so much that passes as modern architecture today. |
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They thought it utterly irresponsible to create a concentration of forces in a position impossible adequately to supply, along routes that could be cut easily by the French. |
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If the victim has contributed to causing their own harm through negligent or irresponsible actions, the damages may be reduced or eliminated entirely. |
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Even more dangerous are irresponsible owners and those trying to dodge dangerous dogs laws by passing banned pit bull terriers off as Staffordshire terrier crosses. |
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That's a real breach of liberty, but suppose he had been an irresponsible superspreader like Typhoid Mary and caused the disease to spin out of control? |
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All those laws which give to the irresponsible officers of the Executive Government of India absolute powers to override the popular will, are still unrepealed. |
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Even usually thoughtful newspapers such as the Washington Post have cited skateboarding as an irresponsible and vandalous activity to be banned from city streets. |
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This implies that clericalist and other opposition to sensible, humane population-growth-control programs is both criminally stupid and socially irresponsible. |
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We believe it would be irresponsible to consider reclassifying it. |
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