Word: shirked
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...drag the UN in--we forced their hand by insisting that we would pull out relatively quickly no matter what--and perhaps we could have done a better job rebuilding the Somali state by ourselves. But this is precisely why it is encouraging that we were able to shirk the role of world leader and become one power among many. American hubris has doomed many a plan, and some rationality is nice for a change...
...founders of the walking service had a great idea. More kudos to them. But it's in danger of becoming an excuse for the University to shirk its transportation duties to students. Quite frankly, there would probably be much less demand for a walking service if the escort service, shuttle buses and HUPD worked the way they should...
...didn't just want to expand, and they didn't just shirk their responsibility for the city-wide homelessness problem. In their quest for the four streets, MIT permitted what amounted to a moral civil war between the poor and middle-class residents of Central Square and the rest of the city...
...thing, Kevorkian has made clear his intention to work outside the law. When a Michigan judge dismissed murder charges against him but advised him against continuing his crusade, Kevorkian replied that he would never shirk his "medical duty. If my colleagues won't work with me, I will work alone." In 1988 Kevorkian suggested to founder Derek Humphry that the Hemlock Society, which supports euthanasia for the terminally ill, join forces with him and set up a suicide center. Humphry's response was "We're not lawbreakers, we're law reformers." But he recalls that Kevorkian insisted that such...
...long as the executive elite in this country can weasel their way out of responsibility, they will. Unlike most, they can pick when to restructure their stock portfolios and shirk their duty to a country that has treated them more than fairly...