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- noun Plural form of
abdication .
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Examples
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At bottom, this is not about legal analysis abstracted from those existential/practical matters, this is not about finessing legal casuistries, this is about repeated and repeated abdications on the part of the federal govt.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Feds May Sue Arizona Over Immigration 2010
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We had downgrades and Wall Street Occupations, sovereign crises that led to abdications of fiscal sovereignty come on down, Italy and Spain and "voluntary haircuts" that no investor wanted.
Reflections From a Year of Tumult Francesco Guerrera 2011
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At bottom, this is not about legal analysis abstracted from those existential/practical matters, this is not about finessing legal casuistries, this is about repeated and repeated abdications on the part of the federal govt.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Feds May Sue Arizona Over Immigration 2010
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The novel's witty successionof trapdoor endings, culminating (we think) in "the quietest of abdications," keeps surprising us long after it seems Bayard's plot has nowhere else to go.
The Black Tower: Summary and book reviews of The Black Tower by Louis Bayard. 2008
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Cowardice in what has become the standard for such abdications.
Ed Berliner: Lebron James Decision: Worship, wealth, and whores. 2010
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The “Board” here is essentially a lawless entity except for when the real courts Art III courts or here, PA commonwealth court actually do step back into the fray from their abdications and substitute their judgment for that of the Agency or Board.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Hate Crimes Laws, Anti-Gay Views, and Public Accountants: 2009
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If Afghanistan burns while the president is fiddling with health insurance, he could be remembered for one of the greatest abdications of responsibility in the history of the American presidency.
9/11 and 9/9 2009
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In a democracy, abdications of conscience are never trivial.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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But the FDA, EPA, and USDA employed another of the Bush administration's institutionalized abdications of GMO oversight.
Jeffrey Smith: Bush's Environmental Legacy on GMOs Is Irreversible 2009
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They want for us to be incurious about disastrous policies or abdications of responsibility, to dismiss our most important policies as trivia.
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