| Charles eventually relieved Rupert of all responsibilities and ordered him into exile. |
| He took aim at the antiwar movement, whose members, he claimed, had abdicated their historic responsibilities. |
| In many cases, it has become a code word for abdicating the responsibilities of political leadership. |
| I think the war in Iraq has more to do with the media's abdication of its responsibilities than the deficiencies of our president. |
| Maybe then fewer men and women would walk away from parenting responsibilities. |
| Doctors may offload their ethical problems on clinical ethicists, abnegating their moral responsibilities too easily. |
