Our modern capitalist world makes it all the more seductive to shirk the responsibility of cooking. |
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Nor does she shirk her moral duty to counter evil with the redemptive power of truth. |
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Both of them, not known to shirk work, have taken upon themselves the onerous task of touring Europe to market Kerala. |
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Is it a gamble then to shirk the pull of the rat race in favour of a life chasing the literary pot of gold? |
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Never one to shirk a job Richard dons a hard hat and a boiler suit as protective clothing and sets off into the maelstrom! |
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I would shirk my daily responsibilities, lay in front of the TV for hours, smoking and losing myself in what was on. |
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It excused irrational and unreasonable behaviour, allowed people to shirk their duties. |
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None of us can shirk our duty to fight drug production and trafficking from our home front. |
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Paddy can be clever and quick-witted enough when presented with an opportunity to shirk the duties set forth in his indentures, but otherwise he's as weak-minded as a fish. |
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Mr Warwick, who has had the goats for a year, classes them as volunteer groundsmen and says they are relentless workers who never shirk their duties. |
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We cannot shirk our responsibility and pass the buck to non-elected scientists to make these tough decisions for us. |
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When things go to pieces, we shirk responsibility and seek other explanations. |
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If a man wishes to reach the top of a hill he must not shirk the trouble of climbing. |
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Some developing-country governments suspect this is a ruse by rich countries to shirk their responsibilities while making money out of the poor. |
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We are also reminding the Commission that even when European funds are spent by national authorities, it still cannot shirk all responsibility. |
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We are fully responsible for works that are on loan to us and in no way do we shirk from that responsibility. |
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We delivered messages of support and partnership but did not shirk the tougher arguments where those were necessary. |
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A commander at any level cannot shirk unpleasant decisions, whether he be corporal or general or any rank in between. |
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Not that the road transport industry would have wished to shirk its wide-ranging responsibilities in this area. |
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The Government cannot shirk its responsibility for everything that has not been accomplished since it first took power. |
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This report does not shirk from the overwhelming problems and challenges that face the Balkan states. |
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Companies therefore shirk away from investing in risky and expensive research and drug development for these conditions. |
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Governments should not be permitted to shirk their responsibilities for making political decisions by hiding behind a purported inability to pay. |
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The Ministry of Defence does not shirk its responsibility or avoid settling compensation claims where there is a legal liability to do so. |
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That being the case, he is encouraged to deny paternity and shirk his responsibility to recognize his offspring. |
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Helping Somalia to defend and protect itself is our responsibility and an obligation we cannot shirk or postpone under any pretext. |
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I hope the government would not shirk its responsibility and discharge its moral and legal duty by taking stringent action against such venomous statement. |
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Should this happen it would be doubly disastrous were we to shirk the challenge now. |
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They abuse drinks or drugs, abuse spouses and loved ones, shirk sleep and plummet into crippling depression. |
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His status as a shirk would normally render him somewhat of a pariah. |
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The boy was a shirk, anyway, so he wouldn't really be missed. |
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Cameron appealed to the conscience of a world that was letting poor people die, and declared that governments, including his own, could not be allowed to shirk their responsibility to act. |
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The election season is an easy time for followers of Jesus to shirk our responsibility to be the incarnation of Christ in the world and to participate in the delusion that redemption will somehow come from the Empire. |
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If deadbeat dads among frogs shirk their parental duties, neglected egg clutches can respond by hatching early. |
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It will not be the time to be represented by members who shirk their responsibilities, who prefer abdication and systematic opposition to action and determination. |
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If he does shirk such decisions, he is unfit to command in battle. |
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They gave army leaders a free hand and, today, faced with the public's reaction, they are pretending to be concerned about the consequences of their decision while trying to shirk their own responsibilities. |
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Mr Galbraith fears that in the name of fiscal restraint, taxpayers will shirk their responsibility to the country's most vulnerable citizens, who rely on public pensions and health care. |
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Now it increasingly models itself on Goldman Sachs which does not shirk from taking risk to the detriment of its other existing and potential businesses. |
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Ms Kosor vows not to shirk from public-spending cuts. |
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Consecrated persons cannot shirk wondering about the impact that these technologies will have on people, on means of communication, on the future of society. |
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Yes, washday was a drudge, backbreaking work, Now it's press a button, no one needs to shirk. |
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In this limited but important domain, we would find it unjustified to make the extreme evolutionary complexity of science a reason to shirk the elementary demands of reliability. |
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The ideal scenario for him would be to push through a tax increase before his presidency officially gets underway, giving him a bigger budget while allowing him to shirk the blame for raising taxes. |
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When this bill was being considered in committee, the Liberals tried to shirk their responsibilities yet again by proposing amendments that were clearly meant to diminish the scope of this bill. |
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And to shirk that part of our human responsibility is, well, a sin. |
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Rick Lemaire wondered whether the involvement of the Ministry of Culture allowed the Ministry of Education to shirk its responsibilities with regard to arts education. |
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And, while he's clearly no rough-and-ready hod carrier, he doesn't shirk his domestic duties when needed. |
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Unfortunately these objectives have been frustrated due to a lack of political will among some of the nuclear Powers that shirk their international commitments. |
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As the chief executive, you are not allowed to shirk your responsibility. |
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Poet and sculptor, do the work Nor let the modist painter shirk What his great forefathers did, Bring the soul of man to God, Make him fill the cradles right. |
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