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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
shirk .
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Examples
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Both men like to engage audiences wider than the nearest senior common room; both have a pronounced impishness; and neither shirks from controversy Guha has described the polemics of Arundhati Roy as "ventures into social science … self-regarding and self-indulgent … and also self-contradictory".
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Oh indeed, but the free market also shirks its' responsibilty.
The optimists of Davos past now face a world whose script has gone awry | Timothy Garton Ash 2011
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They attack the country for wanting to be a big Switzerland: a trading nation that profits from the business opportunities of a globalized economy but shirks the dirty work of globalization, including international involvement in armed conflicts.
Is Germany Turning Into the Strong, Silent Type? Marcus Walker 2011
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Like Matilda herself, the cleverness is evident in Kelly's nifty script, which never shirks the cruelty, or Matilda's feelings of rejection and loneliness, even as it offers children launched into outer space via their pigtails.
Matilda - review 2011
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If the Administration continues on its present, relatively passive course and shirks America's duty and responsibility to confront the Russian Syrian arms transfers with tougher resolve, it won't be merely "leading from behind;" it will be turning its back on the growing humanitarian catastrophe in Syria.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Obama Administration's Syrian Double Standard Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2012
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Of course he is right, and of course Obama shirks his leadership responsibility on this issue.
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When the private sector shirks symbiosis with the public sector and instead opts for a more parasitic relationship, it's a recipe for disaster.
Washington State's 'Robin Hood' tax Katrina vanden Heuvel 2010
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The two shirks and chronic grumblers were Carter Weatherbee and Percy Cuthfert.
In a Far Country 2010
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Although shirks implies that he has the ability to lead, and I don't really believe that. gary
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If the Administration continues on its present, relatively passive course and shirks America's duty and responsibility to confront the Russian Syrian arms transfers with tougher resolve, it won't be merely "leading from behind;" it will be turning its back on the growing humanitarian catastrophe in Syria.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Obama Administration's Syrian Double Standard Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2012
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