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How to use abdicating in a sentence

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Our failure to address this issue equates to abdicating our fundamental responsibility to the next generation of West Indian youth.
The federal government should help states do their job, not assist them in abdicating their duty.
Once again the government is abdicating its responsibility and laying the blame elsewhere.
He cannot envisage himself abdicating his moral responsibility in the matter.
The problems arose because people were abdicating responsibility and were not getting the right person to do the job.
But the bottom line as far as she is concerned is that builders and developers have been abdicating any responsibility in this area.
What is startling about this statement is the degree to which this mayor is simply abdicating responsibility for governing the city.
By abdicating its political responsibility the central cabinet seeks the Supreme Court's intervention to resolve the dispute.
It may look big and it may seem clever, achingly trendily so, but, in essence, it is tantamount to abdicating responsibility.
So do you think the networks are abdicating their responsibility to cover the substance of the campaigns?
Now, on the constitutional point you raised there, Larry, on the queen abdicating, well, it's a frequent topic of conversation.
The Duke of Windsor, Edward VIII, is famous for abdicating the throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.
There are then, several sophistries involved in abdicating our positions to cultural corruption.
It is Council responsibility to do recycling and we're abdicating our responsibility.
In many cases, it has become a code word for abdicating the responsibilities of political leadership.
It had offered odds of 10-1 on the queen abdicating during the Christmas message.
It needs to assert the value to British society of membership of the EU instead of supinely abdicating all responsibility for the issue.
In this solo, she adopts the many faces of feminity, from the shy virgin to the abdicating empress.
By giving that responsibility over to corporations, the government is abdicating its own responsibilities.
Simply because others were also abdicating their responsibilities is not an answer.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The dark crept swiftly up the slopes as if envious of the ruby crown set on Apo's forehead by the abdicating sun.
He is more subject to fits of hypochondria, to talk of abdicating.
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