| What is startling about this statement is the degree to which this mayor is simply abdicating responsibility for governing the city. |
| The problem is that everyone seems to have abdicated their responsibility by saying, we'll let courts decide. |
| Catering to such people might even be considered an abdication of responsibility for a program director bent on public service. |
| The state, on its part, has been impartial in its abdication of responsibility with regard to women of all communities. |
| By abdicating its political responsibility the central cabinet seeks the Supreme Court's intervention to resolve the dispute. |
| It is Council responsibility to do recycling and we're abdicating our responsibility. |
