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"Abdication": in church work, 84; due to past social conditions, 86; explains prominence of young men, 86, 161
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James, his misgovernment and his flight, and had, by using the soft word "Abdication," evaded, with some sacrifice of verbal precision, the question whether subjects may lawfully depose a bad prince.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3
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Abdication of this role opens the door to good things.
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The unfortunate tendency in the federal government is for agencies to get bigger and move in one of two directions: (1) Abdication of responsibility through agency capture by industry as we saw in the Minerals Management Service, or (2) Huge, rule laden and inflexible bureaucracy.
Steven Cohen: We Need a Smart, Agile and Innovative Environmental Police Force
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The unfortunate tendency in the federal government is for agencies to get bigger and move in one of two directions: (1) Abdication of responsibility through agency capture by industry as we saw in the Minerals Management Service, or (2) Huge, rule laden and inflexible bureaucracy.
Steven Cohen: We Need a Smart, Agile and Innovative Environmental Police Force
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Abdication of this role opens the door to good things.
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Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski's op-ed on offshore oil development "Obama's Oil Abdication," Nov. 14 ignores needed upgrades to U.S. offshore oil and gas operations.
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Abdication of responsibility has somehow become a political virtue, a sign of fiscal toughness and even moral rectitude.
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TARP stood for Troubled Asset Relief Program, though one Wall Street executive said it should have stood for “Total Abdication of Responsibility to the Public.”
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TARP stood for Troubled Asset Relief Program, though one Wall Street executive said it should have stood for “Total Abdication of Responsibility to the Public.”
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