dereliction

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• People in Texas died at disproportionate rates because of a dereliction on behalf of the governor.

• Documents released on Friday suggest some could face criminal charges of dereliction of duty or negligence, but no charges have been announced.

• This is a dereliction of duty, pure and simple—a firing offense.

• Christie still has time to learn from this dereliction of duty.

• Seaman's mind-boggling dereliction of responsibility harms the state whose interests he was, and is, tasked with protecting.

• By rejecting this last attempt to suborn a dereliction of duty, Henry saved my reputation, my honor, my life, really.

• It had suffered a sizeable brain drain, since over a third of its workforce was fired by Chavez for dereliction of duty.

• Nor are you deviating from Christian charity in not overlooking a dereliction of so material a sort.

• To abandon any part of the inheritance of primitive times would be gross heresy, a fatal dereliction of Christian duty.

• By that time Jack had recovered his usual good nature, and was as ready to jest as his companion over his dereliction of duty.

• The duties of both rank and file were strictly laid down by Washington, and any dereliction was punished with military strictness.