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127 Sentences With "shirked"

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It is no surprise that Congress has shirked its duty.
I'd been a careless fool who'd shirked my responsibilities in life.
Over the weekend, Zuckerberg shirked responsibility from sorting fact from fiction.
JOE BISH, STAFF WRITER, VICE As a teen, I pretentiously shirked drinking.
Brakman says the Red Cross "shirked its duties during World War II."
Markle and Harry shirked such rules and went for a springtime wedding.
But Congress has largely shirked its war responsibilities in the years since.
But I was a man, so I moved on, shirked self-analysis.
Unsurprisingly, all of these markers shirked the traditional gender roles of the time.
Argentina's stocks benchmark tumbled 2693.4%, while the peso softened as investors shirked riskier positions.
Below, five celebrities who also shirked their awards show duties, and the excuses they gave.
The airline never shirked from its duty to make the airline as safe as possible.
Anna's shirked off her studies and is content to spend her days as a waitress.
But American citizens have certainly shirked their responsibility to be involved in our public life.
Imagine if "the greatest generation" had shirked on the war effort because WWII seemed depressing?
Many trustees have in recent years been sued by investors who claim they shirked their responsibilities.
They have shirked their duty to act as a check on the president and his appointees.
When they returned, Hemat confronted the two DJs, claiming they shirked real work, and fired them.
But some critics suspect that officers have intentionally shirked crime-fighting in order to undermine changes.
This has meant that the companies have shirked important long-term planning for AI catastrophes, Webb says.
He was repeatedly released to live on his own, where he often shirked treatment, he later acknowledged.
Even today, the state has shirked the broader reform-oriented trend on both the left and the right.
Republican and Democrat presidents have taken advantage of these powers, and Republican and Democrat Congressmen have shirked responsibility.
If I don't, I will sit here the rest of my life and say I shirked my responsibility.
We're told they were incompetent cowards who often shirked their duties, leaving the hard work to the Americans.
A U.S. district court sided with public health groups that sued the agency alleging it shirked its duties.
Donald Trump shirked his duty in Vietnam, and we already know he doesn't like guys who were shot down.
Fast-forward a few decades later though, and some electronic music has shirked its pre-occupation with fantastical visions.
Mutko said he had not shirked his own duties but was ready to take responsibility for Russia's doping scandal.
Unfortunately, Congress has shirked its duty to carefully evaluate the need for new nuclear weapons capable of immense destruction.
Life is full of obligations that can't be shirked, but always there are "obligations" I'm not obliged to do.
If you've shirked your Disrupt watching duties this far, you'll want to reverse that nasty habit right this second. Enjoy!
What to do next in Syria is a crucial test for Mr. Trump, who has shirked America's traditional leadership role.
If the world's second-largest polluter shirked its pledges to cut emissions, many other countries would wriggle out of theirs.
Since Trump took office, he hasn't hesitated to delve into the Palestinian Israeli conflict, and has shirked established US policy.
But upstart vanguardists like Charles Ives and Henry Cowell instead took an idiosyncratic and disharmonious approach that shirked European models.
"I make nine dollars an hour," was the attitude, and knowing the company wouldn't fire them, most guards shirked their responsibility.
Simcha Felder, a Democrat from Brooklyn, accused Mr. de Blasio of having shirked a commitment to parents of children with disabilities.
In a way, the measure embodies the party's argument that Trump and his administration have repeatedly shirked ethical standards and precedents.
"Kyle really deserves what he is now achieving because he has never shirked from the hard work," Murray told British media.
It's not that they were lazy or shirked responsibilities; in fact, each seemed like they tried to create value in earnest.
On top of that, the extracurricular commitments I picked up totally overwhelmed me, so I shirked many of my club duties.
He points out that the modern Republican Party has watched this happen and shirked its responsibilities every step of the way.
However, some celebrities have shirked social media entirely by choosing to delete their accounts or never launching them in the first place.
Yet they have shirked this responsibility and in effect have been the most effective way to disseminate propaganda in the 21st century.
Was his primary critique of Wakanda — that it has selfishly shirked its responsibilities to other African nations and the diaspora — ultimately correct?
She felt like a lapsed superhero, all that power she shrank from wielding, all that responsibility she shirked day after blessed day.
The government is supposed to ensure that businesses pay their workforces a bare minimum, but Congress has shirked that duty for twelve years.
They argued Republicans in charge of the House shirked their duty in providing oversight, and were often more interested in protecting the president.
Nonetheless, college students have been seen partying in Florida while on spring break, and some millennials have shirked orders to attempt social distancing.
That prompted a sharp rebuke from Pritzker, who released a statement criticizing those who had "shirked their responsibility" while others had stepped up.
Yet while the financial industry is developing innovative ways to secure consumers' data, retailers have resisted accountability and shirked responsibility for consumer security.
Image: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)If you've shirked your societal responsibility by not getting vaccinated against influenza and managed to avoid getting sick, congrats!
Luis Gutierrez and Jan Schakowsky, shirked their colleague and endorsed his Newman, a down-the-line progressive and, importantly, actively pro-abortion rights Democrat.
But we could have shirked responsibility (a sort of inverse "pottery barn" principle — if you didn't break it, you don't have to fix it).
For the first time, it puts a face on the records of a band that's deliberately shirked public attention in favor of ghostly emotions.
The results showed that while a minority shirked from end-of-life care discussion, most would welcome them but were rarely given the opportunity.
Successive Democratic and Republican presidents have shirked their responsibilities, but at long last, President Trump will be ensuring that America does what is right.
But for the record-keeping that alerted officials there to the fact that Friedrich shirked his military duty, there might not be a President Trump.
It means to cover the entire surface of the bread from edge to edge – an important step in buttering, one that is too often shirked.
As Google CEO, Pichai made $650,000 in annual base pay, and previously shirked additional shares of the company, according to a May report from Bloomberg.
In captivating prose, she described her childhood being raised by two people who shirked responsibility and convention, who prioritized adventure over putting food on the table.
Bernie Sanders see the blackout as a self-inflicted problem by a company that shirked its obligations to reduce fire risk in order to benefit shareholders.
But on gun control, many lawmakers have shirked those duties, and when that happens for a long enough time, the people will make their voices heard.
The ruling handed down Wednesday in district court states that the agency shirked its legal duty when it postponed reviewing all U.S. vaping products by several years.
The feverish fundraising comes as Trump, who had for months shirked traditional campaign finance tactics, has begun to post sizable monthly hauls and hit the fundraising circuit.
Even Cashmere Cat—the producer Magnus August Høiberg, who's always shirked EDM's strictures for something a little more contorted—has gotten increasingly suctioned into pop music's wormhole.
The lawyer representing customers told Business Insider that the companies "shirked their duty" in protecting people's data, and need to be held responsible for the data breach.
But other officials and athletes expressed a growing distrust of the agency's leadership and a concern that the agency has shirked its responsibility to ensure clean competition.
They're so frictionless and it's so fun to one-up friends for high scores that I already felt pangs of addiction as I shirked work to play.
One nation in particular has shirked its load, a country whose malign involvement lurks as a common denominator under every one of those aforementioned countries: Saudi Arabia.
For its part Greece has shirked the reforms needed if it is to start growing fast enough to catch up with the rest of the euro area.
The agency will start taking applications in May following a court ruling this summer that determined the FDA had shirked its legal responsibility to regulate e-cigarettes.
Steve King, a vehemently anti-abortion Republican from Iowa, introduced similar legislation in Congress last year, but it was shirked in favor of a less restrictive abortion bill.
Before Republicans can start any new major legislative pushes, they have to deal with all the vital business they shirked last year to focus on healthcare and taxes.
Mercedes-Benz won't launch the program until local authorities give the go-ahead, exercising an abundance of caution that others in the space like Uber have sometimes shirked.
Even some supporters of the president say Congress has shirked its constitutional responsibilities for too long by giving the White House a blank check on going to war.
A program providing health care to 20,000 retired miners after coal companies shirked their liabilities in bankruptcy courts will now be made permanent, with $4.6 billion set aside.
Asked to comment on how Buttigieg responds to people saying he has shirked responsibility, Genevieve Miller, Buttigieg's deputy chief of staff in South Bend, offered a comment from 23.
The federal government said it was the states' responsibility, and the states shirked it, saying, in part, that they had enough to handle, with thousands of wounded soldiers returning.
Dozens of House Democrats have shirked the duty this year for an array of reasons, such as fundraising prowess, dynamics in their district and members' own relationships with DCCC.
Lawmakers had previously shirked from supporting such a resolution to preserve the United States' relationship with Turkey, a NATO ally that has steadfastly denied that the atrocities amounted to genocide.
But across its 11 tracks, that's more or less all it offers, memories of a style long since shirked because, well, the world is more complicated than its sound suggests.
Since her return to acting in 2015, after 23 years as a member of Parliament for the Labour Party, Jackson, a two-time Academy Award winner, hasn't shirked a challenge.
And as for the five-year ban on lobbying after serving in the Trump administration, there are serious enforcement problems, especially given the ways in which lobbying regulations are easily shirked.
PARIS (Reuters) - The French government abandoned plans for a new 3003 million euro ($710 million) airport in western France on Wednesday, a sensitive decision that past governments had shirked for decades.
The Frikis were one such target, because they looked different, shirked the norms of life under Castro socialism, and spent much of their time on the streets in run-down areas.
This winter, the Cuomo train has left the station as he shirked blame, ducked reporters, and passed the buck on why the city's transit infrastructure he is responsible for has failed.
This program may have officially lacked a new or recent work, though Mr. Trifonov, also a composer, has hardly shirked contemporary music, especially during his Perspectives series last season at Carnegie.
"The agency has shirked its obligation to properly study the arbitration issue, as it was mandated by Congress," said Lisa Rickard, president of the Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Legal Reform.
Generous contracts entitle it to compensation equal to value of the deal, which expires in 2042, minus penalties of up to 10%—even if Autostrade is deemed to have shirked its obligations.
But as we've seen in other cities that have shirked Big Telecom to build their own public utility broadband, the traditional oligopoly isn't a fan of the government stepping on their turf.
Its efforts took the form of End of Evangelion, a feature film that came out in theaters in 23 and that shirked the constraints of basic cable TV and 22018-minute runtimes.
But his recent solo work, as Matthewdavid and Matthewdavid's Mindflight, has shirked the terrestrial bounds of even his label's wispiest releases in favor of a drifting, aerated take on new age sonics.
But Beijing officials have not forgotten, and on Thursday Li Fei, who chairs the Basic Law Committee under the Chinese parliament's standing committee, said it was "a duty that cannot be shirked".
"It's a sad day for the world, the UN, for its charter -- which was blatantly, blatantly violated -- and for the Security Council which has shirked its responsibilities," Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said.
While the administration's tax cuts lowered the rate corporations pay in income taxes to 21%, the White House hasn't shirked away from approving big-ticket fiscal budgets or increases in military spending.
Brock acknowledged that another group of wealthy Democratic donors already exists—Democracy Alliance, whose donors include the billionaires George Soros and Tom Steyer—but Brock thinks that the DA has shirked its duty.
Over and over, New Yorkers have watched as elected officials shirked their responsibility to transit, failing to invest in the extensive system while blowing billions of dollars on poorly managed, gold-plated projects.
In January, President Emmanuel Macron's government dropped plans for the 580-million-euro ($712-million) airport in Notre-Dame-des-Landes in western France, a sensitive decision that past governments had shirked for decades.
"Let it not be said that Major League Eating has shirked its responsibilities when it comes to highlighting the wonders of the vegetable kingdom," Major League Eating wrote in a post on its website.
According to the letter, Australia has shirked its responsibilities as steward of the Great Barrier Reef under the World Heritage Convention, particularly by allowing port dredging and shipping of fossil fuels in the reef area.
The operator who leased the Oakland warehouse known as the "Ghost Ship" where 36 people died on Friday night emotionally apologized for the deadly fire – but denied he made it unsafe and shirked safety codes.
Although Title IX, a federal civil rights law, requires educational institutions to respond promptly to violence and discrimination when it occurs, schools have routinely shirked their obligation to protect survivors' right to equitable educational access.
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The criminal charges Mr. Schuette has already filed have focused mostly on lead contamination and accusations that front-line workers for the city and state shirked their duties and even fudged data to avoid taking action.
If Mr. Kramon wants to go on a guilt trip, he can do so, but he is dead wrong that our generation shirked its responsibilities, and, frankly, I am getting tired of listening to this nonsense.
"For decades the Department of Defense has shirked its legal obligation to provide information to the FBI that may disqualify dangerous individuals from legally acquiring guns," New York City's Corporation Counsel Zachary Carter said in a statement.
Last week's runner-up BeBe Zahara Benet, apparently seeing BenDeLaCreme's departure as the falling spotlight from "The Truman Show," shirked custom as well and refused to reveal who she would have eliminated, emphasizing the need for peace.
Which isn't to say they shirked their duty; in fact, South Korean troops quickly earned a reputation as a ferocious fighting force — and found themselves, like Americans, mired in a people's war with an entrenched and motivated enemy.
"From when e-cigarettes first came to market until now, FDA has continually shirked its regulatory authority and failed in its mission to protect public health," said DeLauro, chairwoman of the Labor-Health and Human Services Appropriations subcommittee.
Senior Chinese parliamentarian Li Fei used a visit to Hong Kong last week to warn that Article 23 was a "duty that can't be shirked" while the chief of China's Liaison Office in the city also called for action.
He's also shirked the critical spotlight of the debate stage thus far and has been banking on mixed results for his rivals out of the first four early voting states before the Super Tuesday contests he's staked his candidacy on.
Whatever the proposal's merits, the Byford team had taken on a thankless, vital task that others had shirked: modernizing bus routes based on ancient lines drawn by streetcar companies, little changed since horses pulled milk wagons on the same roads.
The Spartans answered with a 39-yard field goal by Matt Coghlin to make it 17-10, but Dobbins broke through the line and shirked a tackle attempt at the 20 for a 67-yard score and a 24-10 lead.
During an event at Vanderbilt University on Wednesday, Bolton was confronted by his predecessor, former national security adviser Susan Rice, over whether he had shirked his constitutional duty by not testifying before Congress without being subpoenaed by lawmakers, according to CNN.
The news that the Home Office had ordered her citizenship to be revoked was welcomed by those who claimed it was a necessary move to protect the country, and condemned by others who saw it as potentially illegal step that shirked Britain's obligations.
It's been argued, convincingly, that Facebook isn't doing enough to combat blatantly untrue news articles that appear in the news feed, and that it hasn't lived up to (or even worse, has actively shirked) its responsibilities as a distributor of content to do so.
As Rebecca Leber at Mother Jones pointed out, the aftermath of the Bush administration's decision to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol in 2001, the last time we effectively shirked international responsibility on climate change, offers some clues as to the backlash that's in store.
The lawsuit, which was filed earlier this month in the United States District Court, claims that Ring has shirked basic security measures that would help protect camera owners' accounts, even though the company has known that its devices are a popular target for hackers.
A former South Carolina congressman who was installed as chief of staff in January, Mulvaney has appeared more eager than his predecessors to follow Trump's commands and has shirked past efforts to curtail the number of staffers who have direct access to the president.
Before rushing to push Pentagon spending even higher, however, Congress, which has shirked its vital oversight role, would be well advised to make sure that critical reforms are undertaken by a stubbornly change-resistant bureaucracy, so Americans can be certain their tax dollars are being spent effectively.
As the investigation into the cause of the fire – one of the deadliest structure fires in the U.S. in the past decade – continues, the building's operator and master tenant, Derick Ion Almena, apologized for the tragedy in an emotional interview – but denied he had made it unsafe or shirked safety codes.
Should Biden run, he would be facing off against a slew of younger and more diverse faces within the party, many of whom have shirked the former vice president's moderation in favor of policies important to the party's increasingly influential progressive flank, offering Biden a possible spot with the base's centrists.
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Chad A. Readler of Ohio as President Trump's 33rd federal appeals court judge despite bipartisan criticism that as a Justice Department official in the Trump administration he had shirked his official responsibility to defend the Affordable Care Act when it was challenged in court.
The list of allegations of sexual misconduct, starting with those against producer Harvey Weinstein in October, grows longer every day, and was a hot topic during The Hollywood Reporter's first ever live roundtable that shirked the usually-gendered nature of these get-togethers in favor of a co-ed discussion at West Hollywood's Quixote Studios on December 7.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Danny Snapp's argument that, due to improper jury instructions, he was held to an unduly high burden of proof, and that the burden of disproving his claims should have shifted to BNSF because it had allegedly shirked its duty to engage in the interactive process of determining whether his disability could be reasonably accommodated.

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