Obama has accused Senate Republicans of abdicating their constitutional duties.
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Despite abdicating his position, he can maintain his cardinal title.
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The congressional watchdog became a lapdog, abdicating its institutional responsibilities.
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So let Mitch McConnell know that it's time to quit abdicating around.
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Amash is calling out his Republican colleagues for abdicating their oversight role.
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They are abdicating congressional oversight duties on their way out of power.
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Here he is abdicating his job and announcing he's going on a bender.
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Abdicating that responsibility for political purposes is simply not acceptable, Flake argues. 7.
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Crown Prince Naruhito will succeed his father, Akihito, who is abdicating on Wednesday.
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John Kasich of abdicating his post to campaign for president in New Hampshire.
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I don't know, but it just seems like, again, we're abdicating any responsibilities.
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This is precisely why states are abdicating the responsibility for sentencing to a computer.
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Sure, Democrats will criticize them for abdicating their responsibilities at such a critical juncture.
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It would make them complicit in abdicating American values and endangering their fellow citizens.
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Within this paradigm, "leaning in" is fundamentally about abdicating responsibility or desire for substantive change.
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"You can make deals, discuss ways of achieving peace, without abdicating oneself," Mr. Brunetta wrote.
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So when Congress says they are abdicating their statutory duties, they know whereof they speak.
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"I think the Labor Department is abdicating its responsibility to protect these workers," Blumenthal said.
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Outraged, because the FCC pulls its own teeth, abdicating responsibility to protect the nation's broadband consumers.
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Japan's Emperor Akihito is abdicating on Tuesday, making way for his son to take the throne.
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With the federal government abdicating its responsibility, individual states have been left to fill the void.
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Turns out, looking for a free lunch tends to go hand-in-hand with abdicating responsibility.
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She seems to have no intention of abdicating in favor of her eldest son, Prince Charles.
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" He added "Francis is abdicating the mandate which Christ gave to Peter to confirm the brethren.
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We would be abdicating our duty, as elected committeemen, if we don't tell voters what's going on.
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Over here, pop has been sliding down the charts, abdicating the throne to trap and SoundCloud rap.
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Akihito is believed to be abdicating due to his advanced age and the pressures of the job.
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"Some tenuous connection to a politically fraught issue does not justify abdicating our judicial duty," Thomas wrote.
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"To the extent it is not pursuing these matters, the department is abdicating its responsibility," Barr said.
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"Some tenuous connection to a politically fraught issue does not justify abdicating our judicial duty," Thomas added.
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Inside your company, you may have total control, but working with reporters requires abdicating that iron grip.
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"To the extent it is not pursuing these matters, the department is abdicating its responsibility," he wrote.
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"Today, this is Senator Lee and I saying we are not abdicating our duty," Mr. Paul said.
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" Asked if he thought Republicans supporting this declaration were abdicating their responsibilities to the Constitution, Amash said "yes.
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They accused the majority of abdicating its responsibility to enforce the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
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Members of Congress would be abdicating that duty if they enacted a wealth tax they thought was constitutionally flawed.
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But the Forest Service is abdicating its mission to protect these wild places to ram through whatever industries want.
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But the Forest Service is abdicating its mission to protect these wild places to ram through whatever industries want.
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If it succeeds in abdicating the lead for stability operations, it had best be ready with a backup plan.
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Not letting people in, not seeing itself as a world leader anymore, abdicating from its role as world leader.
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By delegating enforcement to a different agency, the FCC is abdicating on its responsibility to regulate the telecom sector.
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The administration is abdicating its leadership and taking a backseat to other countries in the global fight against climate change.
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Blaming everyone else and advocating for their own partisan view is abdicating (or 'shirking') their duties of the first order!
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Is America at risk of abdicating its international leadership role to China, just as the British Empire did in 1945?
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People who are too relational run the risk of being seen as friends, abdicating the credibility they need as leaders.
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In abdicating their war authority, members of Congress have avoided taking tough votes or unpopular positions on our conflicts abroad.
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Of course, he's best known now for abdicating the throne in order to marry his divorced American mistress, Wallis Simpson.
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In their dissent, the four liberal justices accused their colleagues of abdicating the court's responsibility of safeguarding the democratic process.
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We're not going to beat China by abdicating responsibility to the private sector — a sector whose mission is profit, not patriotism.
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"To the extent it is not pursuing these matters, the department is abdicating its responsibility," Barr said of the Justice Department.
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Without that, Congress would be once again abdicating its responsibility and ceding broad powers to an impulsive president with dubious judgment.
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The resulting images tell many stories, but they all offer a cautionary note about the dangers of abdicating responsibility and agency.
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It's hard to shake the sense that, as an industry, we are currently abdicating some of our collective responsibility to the world.
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According to Rosenworcel, who is a Democrat, the FCC is abdicating its responsibility to uphold the legitimacy of the public-commenting process.
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Seconds later, he launched into a talking point about how AI could address undesirable content, effectively abdicating Facebook's responsibility for the problem.
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The Emperor made the announcement in a historic speech following reports last month that the 82-year-old monarch was considering abdicating.
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A federal judge last week ruled that the FDA needs to start accepting applications, saying the agency was abdicating its regulatory authority.
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Musk bristles during press calls at the mention of Autopilot-related accidents or broader anxieties about abdicating the wheel to a computer.
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You might as well memorize this chart, since the Kardashians show no sign of abdicating their throne as America's most famous family.
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It is an America abdicating its historic mission of democratic leadership and example, an America extinguishing the torch of liberty and welcome.
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"This administration is abdicating its leadership and taking a backseat to other countries in the global fight against climate change," Cuomo said.
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With shocking speed, he has wreaked havoc: hobbling our core alliances, jettisoning American values and abdicating United States leadership of the world.
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It's commonly thought that after Prince Albert died, Victoria sank into her grief and retired from public life, essentially abdicating her responsibilities.
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We are aware of no precedent for a sovereign pardoning himself, then abdicating or being deposed but being immune from criminal process.
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For too long, Central American governments and elites have gotten away with abdicating their fiduciary, social and legal responsibilities to their citizens.
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By the following year he was a shadow of his former self, abdicating his role as a co-creator in the Rolling Stones.
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Twitter faced widespread criticism for that policy, with critics claiming it was a method of abdicating responsibility over the platform's rampant harassment problem.
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Moreover, this is indicative of the troubling trend of the United States slowly abdicating its role as a leader on the world stage.
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The potential coalition partners, however, slammed Mr. Lindner for calling a premature end to the talks and abdicating his responsiblity to help govern.
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NEWARK — The Democratic candidate for New Jersey governor opened his post-Labor Day blitz accusing his Republican opponent of abdicating her moral leadership.
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It's yet another example — alongside soaring C.E.O. pay and stagnant worker wages — of corporations abdicating the leadership role they once played in America.
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Chris Moore, whose daughter Danielle was killed in the crash, said the F.A.A. appeared to be abdicating its responsibility to oversee aviation safety.
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If Republicans allow Mr. Trump to bail out the Communist Party-run telecom giant, they will be abdicating their most basic democratic responsibilities.
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With the federal government abdicating its responsibility to provide basic consumer protections for these students, the last line of defense is state oversight.
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Congressman Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), lead author of the resolution, tweeted that Republicans "are abdicating congressional oversight duties on their way out of power."
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But the net neutrality repeal NPRM leaves little doubt that this FCC is intent on completely abdicating its role in overseeing broadband internet access.
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Both parties are equally guilty for this executive obsession, abdicating their legislative duties granted by the Constitution and transferring those authorities to Pennsylvania Avenue.
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I suspect it has something to do with the way Republicans have squandered their opportunity to govern, and the consequences of abdicating that responsibility.
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Watchmen isn't supposed to be about hero worship, Moore argued, but rather the dangers of it and of abdicating personal responsibility to said heroes.
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Emperor Akihito of Japan is abdicating the throne in a few hours, the first Japanese emperor to do so in more than 200 years.
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You are abdicating your responsibility to protect the citizens and the country that you serve, and it is as befuddling as it is inexcusable.
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"It is time for Congress to stop using previous AUMFs as an excuse to continue abdicating its constitutional responsibility on war," he said. Sens.
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I don't like people abdicating their identity to become part of some group, and then becoming obsessed with this and making capital of it.
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"Completely abdicating any involvement [in Syria] gives those that we don't want involved a green light," says Shanna Kirschner, a Syria expert at Allegheny College.
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But with the US officially abdicating the Paris Agreement, this is now looks like a peek at a future that seems more and more likely.
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Thomas was deeply critical of his colleagues and said that a "tenuous connection" to a "politically fraught issue," does not justify "abdicating our judicial duty."
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"It appears that in a time of crisis, these senators chose instead to serve themselves, violating the public trust and abdicating their duty," Bookbinder said.
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These stories trade on the perceived intimacy of friendships as a proxy for actual insight, abdicating the role of an objective press in the process.
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"If the president took the Fifth, he is by definition, in my view, abdicating the responsibility of the presidency of the United States," Biden said.
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Yet in their lust for power, the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee members are abdicating this responsibility -- and we are all the worse for it.
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This peculiar state of affairs — which federation officials privately say means Mr. Bedzhamov is abdicating his post as president — is obviously a problem for Russian bobsledding.
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Abdicating the selection process for People Are Saying to an algorithm does not absolve the company of responsibility when said algorithm spotlights conspiracy theories and lies.
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Throughout the series, Jon makes a lot of strong, risky moral choices — supporting the Wildlings, becoming King in the North, abdicating to follow Dany, killing Dany.
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Emanuel's decision not to seek re-election (he's abdicating power to write a book about why mayors rule the world) is disastrous for Musk's O'Hare Express.
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The Climate Deniers Have WonAt President Trumps' behest, the US is joining Syria and Nicaragua in abdicating from the Paris…Read more ReadWe're all so fucked.
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The second person said the feeling among White House and Justice Department officials was that Rosenstein was abdicating authority and not putting constraints on the investigation.
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Beatrix said that she was abdicating because it was time for the next generation to take over, and that her son was ready for the job.
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By abdicating federal leadership, agencies, states and industry are left to develop their own plans and policies on an issue which demands coordinated and collective action.
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"It's important for social media sites that have massive reach to make and enforce policies concerning manipulated content, rather than abdicating all responsibility," Professor Zittrain said.
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Abdicating that sense of any responsibility let me avoid a deeper, darker worry: that prioritizing the self is, by nature, saying to hell with everyone else.
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"Cuomo and the Albany leaders have created their own problem by abdicating their responsibility," he said, adding that property taxes had driven away residents and businesses.
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This means that a leader like Mr. Trump cannot simply defy his obligations by ignoring or abdicating the 1967 agreement, for that would mean breaking American law.
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But with Europe facing existential challenges, the world in turmoil, and President Trump abdicating America's historic global leadership, Mr. Macron's real international tests are still to come.
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Trump's withdrawal from the Paris agreement infuriated many world leaders, who accused the U.S. of abdicating its global leadership role and weakening the impact of the deal.
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But I believe he would have reserved almost as much scorn for the Senate, for abdicating its historic duty to provide a counterweight to the White House.
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As the abdicating head coach of the Jets in January 2000, Parcells assumed that Bill Belichick, his loyal and longtime defensive coordinator, was eager to replace him.
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"The EU is abdicating their responsibilities to save lives, blocking search and rescue and condemning people to be trapped in Libya," the group said in a tweet Wednesday.
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The Queen's record reign and old age — she is 91 and showing no signs of abdicating — mean that when the day comes, Charles will become Britain's oldest king.
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Long ago, the Clinton campaign clearly decided to put all its work into attacking Trump and thus abdicating any serious efforts to promote their candidate and her policies.
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A failure to do so would be a political loser at home since critics will charge him with abdicating his responsibility to preserve the integrity of American democracy.
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"What we did today is basically say that the United States Congress is sick and tired of abdicating its responsibility -- constitutional responsibility -- on matters of war," Sanders said.
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" With China returning to a more Leninist system, "we still don't know what that will mean for global governance," she said, "especially with Trump abdicating and trashing it.
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"Politicians know what is needed, but at best give bonuses for kindergartens or to buy diapers, abdicating to their role to find long-term solutions," Ms. Zezza said.
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And it is another sign — the latest of many — that the president has no remorse for abdicating the leadership America once claimed in the struggle against climate change.
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Under a federal program for infrastructure renewal, local politicians could attract and leverage both federal and private dollars to advance multiple projects without abdicating oversight of private concessions.
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While abdicating the CEO role probably wasn&apost exactly what Ljung had hoped for, at least he gets to stay on with the company as chairman of the board.
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Will Congress, wracked by severe partisanship that has further eroded the founders' system of checks and balances, quit abdicating its constitutional power and push back to save the republic?
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Partisan gridlock has meant that when the country launched military adventures in Libya and Syria, Congress stood paralyzed, abdicating its constitutional responsibility to authorize or even debate such actions.
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In a speech on the Senate floor on Monday, Mr. Reid heaped abuse on Mr. Grassley, saying he was abandoning his oath of office and abdicating his constitutional responsibilities.
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"If I put my own personal hurt feelings ahead of representing Texas, that would be abdicating my responsibility," he said on "This Week" on ABC News over the weekend.
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In doing so, you are abdicating the voting booth to the enemies of equality and are perpetuating the dynamic that has given us 45 male presidents in a row.
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He says the trend came with the advent of parliamentary elections in 2008, which Bhutan's former king ordered after abdicating in favor of his son, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck.
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"Rebecca Rivers, who was fired last month, tweeted that "instead of taking a stand for their employees," Brin and Page were "abdicating their responsibilities and leaving us to suffer.
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On Thursday, President Trump announced the US is joining Syria and Nicaragua in abdicating from the landmark agreement, ratified by former President Obama in 2016 and signed by 195 nations.
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"If the federal government insists on abdicating leadership on this issue, it will be up to the American people to step forward - and in Virginia we are doing just that."
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Increasing the cybersecurity of these devices is paramount, and it's heartening to see both individual states and the European Union step in where the US federal government is abdicating responsibility.
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It pains me to see many of my former "A students" cut class and play hooky by abdicating principles they once claimed to embrace in service to an unchecked executive.
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John Kasich (R) panned President Trump's tax plan for failing to include revenue increases to offset massive tax cuts, arguing that Republicans are abdicating their responsibility to protect against booming deficits.
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The idea of someone impersonating the first lady to fool the American people relies on the idea that the real first lady is off doing something else and abdicating her duties.
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Karl Frisch, the executive director of Allied Progress, told reporters on a call Wednesday that Pai and Congressional Republicans are abdicating their responsibility of providing oversight of the $3.9 billion deal.
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But the suggestion has provoked strong objections from some of their colleagues who say they would be abdicating their authority if lawmakers permit other branches of government to dictate their procedures.
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Last year, dissenting from the court's decision not to hear a Second Amendment case, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the court was abdicating its duty to protect an important constitutional right.
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" Matt Wood, policy director at DC-based public interest group Free Press, said that by voting against the FCC's proposed rate caps, Pai and O'Rielly are "abdicating their moral and statutory responsibility.
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But Democratic lawmakers and presidential candidates have pushed back at that defense, accusing Facebook of abdicating its responsibility to stave off misinformation on its wide-reaching platform and actively profiting from lies.
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The images of Arab strongmen like Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Tunisia's Ben Ali abdicating power prompted someone to scrawl on the wall: 'It's your turn now Doctor,' referring to Assad, the ophthalmologist.
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There is no exit ramp for superpowers leaving center stage, and even if there was, Trump and quite rightly all Americans have no intention of taking it, abdicating most influential nation status.
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"States who stay silent risk abdicating responsibility at a crucial moment and sending a dangerous message that Saudi Arabia can continue to commit egregious abuses without being held to account," Morayef said.
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To make that even clearer: Yes, we really are abdicating all responsibility for the content that appears on our platform, even though, as the owner of Steam, we are technically that platform's gatekeeper.
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In Raisin, standing before his son, Walter Lee insists upon moving into the white neighborhood and rejects the offer of a lot of cash in exchange for maintaining segregation and abdicating his dignity.
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BRUSSELS - Luxembourg's Grand Duke Jean, who oversaw the transformation of the Grand Duchy into an international financial center before abdicating and handing over to his son, has died at the age of 98.
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Abdicating his responsibility as commander-in-chief, a task for which he has no aptitude, gives Trump more time to focus on what has been the prime concern of his presidency: self-enrichment.
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"With shocking speed, he has wreaked havoc: hobbling our core alliances, jettisoning American values and abdicating United States leadership of the world," Rice wrote of Trump in a New York Times op-ed.
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" Without bothering to mention that the allegation against Planned Parenthood has been thoroughly debunked, Justice Thomas went on: "Some tenuous connection to a politically fraught issue does not justify abdicating our judicial duty.
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Were he actually to retire, abdicating this role, "there would be civil war," said Konstantin Gaaze, a sociologist at the Moscow School for Social and Economic Sciences, who specializes in Russian patronage networks.
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By abdicating US global leadership, testing Western solidarity, and escalating trade tensions, the American President is undermining the legitimacy and stability of the existing multilateral system, contributing to the sense of a world adrift.
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After abdicating the Scottish throne amid suspicions that she was implicated in her husband's murder, Mary was imprisoned from 1568 until her death by her cousin Elizabeth I, who perceived her as a threat.
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Image: AP Photo/Mark SchiefelbeinAt President Trumps' behest, the US is joining Syria and Nicaragua in abdicating from the Paris Agreement, a coalition of 303 nations to combat climate change by reducing carbon emissions.
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To arbitrarily throw away contrast based on a fashion that "looks good on my perfect screen in my perfectly lit office" is abdicating designers' responsibilities to the very people for whom they are designing.
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But her apparent ability to get away with what some conservatives called murder did not sit well with working-class voters, who saw this as yet another example of an elite politician abdicating responsibility.
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By abdicating the leadership role it has played since World War II, the United States is giving the terrain to others who will do the organizing on the basis of their values, not America's.
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The United States, under President Trump, is abdicating an important moral obligation to all democracies by seeming to shrug off the most egregious of human rights violations from both our allies and our enemies.
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Quoting an EFF researcher, ZDNet reports that carriers may have obtained consent from users by burying the practice into their privacy policies, abdicating customers of the option to opt-out of having their information shared.
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There have been times in the E.P.A.'s long and controversial life when it fell down on the job by abdicating its regulatory responsibilities, as it did during Ann Gorsuch's reign under President Ronald Reagan.
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By rushing confirmation hearings before Kavanaugh's full record can be thoroughly examined, the Senate leadership is abdicating its constitutional responsibility to advise and consent on a nominee who will shape American jurisprudence for a generation.
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One all-too-common response to such attacks involves abdicating responsibility for fact-checking entirely, and replacing it with theater criticism: Never mind whether what the candidate said is true or false, how did it play?
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" In 2013, Secretary of State Clinton testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the BBG did not have the capacity "to be able to tell a message around the world, [thereby] abdicating the ideological arena.
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Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California and the leader of the Financial Services Committee, broke with party leaders on Thursday, saying Congress would be abdicating its responsibility if it does not attempt to remove Mr. Trump.
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"After many decades of abdicating responsibility — under presidents of both parties — it is time for Congress to take this so very seriously," Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia and the lead sponsor of the measure, said.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden said President Donald Trump would be "abdicating the responsibility of the presidency" if he chose to avoid an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe by pleading the Fifth Amendment.
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That approach, however, has spurred criticism by some on the world stage, who have slammed Trump for abdicating the United States' global leadership role and abandoning responsibility for the world order that the U.S. largely created.
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Warren has proposed abdicating responsibility and teaching people that when they sign a promissory note they just have to wait until a political candidate wants to win so bad that they'll use taxpayer dollars to buy votes.
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" But House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released a statement on Wednesday afternoon accusing the Republican Congress of "subverting the legislative process and abdicating its solemn constitutional responsibility to debate and authorize the Trump Administration's use of force.
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They are planning a range of efforts -- from hardball tactics on the Senate floor to protests at Republicans candidates' events back home -- to paint the GOP as abdicating a central responsibility in Washington, according to party officials.
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But some #ASAPbio advocates argue that since the rise of the Internet, biologists have been abdicating their duty to the public — which pays for most academic research — by not sharing results as quickly and openly as possible.
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Many of the grown-ups in these stories — and quite a few of the kids — are narcissistic, cynical or deluded, given to venting their frustrations on relatives and neighbors or abdicating their familial responsibilities with alarming ease.
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"This was [President Trump's] opportunity to redeem himself, stand up for American values, stand up for international law, stand up for our own national security interests, and he had that opportunity and instead he's abdicating it." said Sen.
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The only good that came of McConnell's ruthless and unprecedented decision to orphan Court nominee Merrick Garland last year—to nullify Obama's appointment power by abdicating the Senate's advice and consent responsibility—was that its shamelessness was revelatory.
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Sins of commission are always regarded as more egregious than sins of omission—and that seems to be the simplest explanation of why Pelosi is abdicating responsibility now in order to avoid accusations of culpability in the future.
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In an amicus brief filed with the California court, the EFF also outlined the risk of platforms simply abdicating all responsibility to monitor the content on their platforms in order to avoid being accused of knowingly violating the law.
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By eliminating the fund for public housing capital, the president is abdicating the federal government's responsibility to ensure that local public housing authorities have the money they need to repair, maintain, and upgrade the buildings and homes they oversee.
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"If Republicans allow Mr. Trump to bail out the Communist Party-run telecom giant, they will be abdicating their most basic democratic responsibilities," wrote the 89-year-old billionaire, whose Open Society Foundations have helped countries transition to democracies.
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Mr. Pai further argues that the Federal Trade Commission would then make sure that companies were living up to their promises, essentially abdicating any responsibility the Federal Communications Commission has for the most important communications system in the country.
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Filed on Monday in Travis County, Texas district court, the lawsuit also names as a defendant the Texas Railroad Commission, which is accused of abdicating its duties under state law by not overseeing Kinder Morgan's use of eminent domain power.
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To the extent that GOP mismanagement has a material effect on premiums and competition, it will be essential for Democrats to point to solutions Republicans are intentionally shunning, not just attack them for abdicating their obligation to faithfully execute the law.
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To quote Jack Goldsmith, those whose jobs entail little more than "dirtying one's hands in propping up [Trump's] apparent efforts to destroy American institutions" deserve lasting social censure for abdicating civic duty long after they realized what the bargain was.
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Trump's views on the deal have been widely criticized by Democrats, environmentalists and even some Republicans, who say the U.S. is abdicating global leadership at a time when urgent action is required to stem the most dangerous impacts of climate change.
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By abdicating its leadership role on global climate change and backing away from policies that support the Paris Climate Pledge, the Trump administration is — perhaps unwittingly — removing incentives for American companies to compete and innovate at the forefront of clean energy.
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Now, at the threshold of abdicating leadership for that to USAID, DoD argues that its stability mandate is both obsolete and onerous: It costs too much, personnel and force structures have changed, and the military needs to focus on combat readiness.
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Liberals hail them as moves toward a social democratic welfare state and a foreign policy more skeptical of military intervention; conservatives critique Obama's efforts to expand regulation and the government's reach, and accuse him of abdicating America's role as world hegemon.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has repeatedly gone after McConnell for what he says is abdicating his responsibility as majority leader, and Democratic senators who have met in the "gangs" have repeatedly urged their colleagues to press McConnell to do more.
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Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands is abdicating the throne after a 33 year reign and hands the throne to her son Prince Willem-Alexander who will be sworn in later at the Nieuwe Kerk ahead of a joint session of parliament.
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With Washington abdicating responsibilities to states and localities, the authors of two new books argue convincingly that New York's Constitution is so riddled with anachronisms and has been so circumvented by legislative exceptions that it finally needs to be overhauled.
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The judge, William H. Pauley III, strongly suggested that the federal government should take over New York City public housing, even as he chastised federal officials for abdicating their legal responsibility to the residents of the nation's largest public housing system.
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But a small, mostly Democratic, group of lawmakers has argued for years that Congress should stop abdicating its responsibility to consider an AUMF that would govern U.S. military action, whether against Islamist militant groups or the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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With the White House abdicating any responsibility to reduce the risks of climate change, it's time for Congress to set aside partisan bickering and, for the good of our nation and the world, enact a market-based solution to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Through this process the people would save themselves and each other, one at a time, and would come to see heroism as an everyday attainment possible for all, rather than abdicating personal responsibility in favor of blind devotion to a single superhuman figure.
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The Boyd letter is so worrying because it shows that at least some powerful Republicans are doing worse than abdicating responsibility: They're encouraging Trump to investigate Clinton, seemingly at the behest of conservative media outlets that are aggressively pushing the Uranium One narrative.
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But experts are skeptical about Zuckerberg's overtures, and say he is once again abdicating responsibility for the worst content on his platform and avoiding real scrutiny, all while spending tens of millions on lobbying efforts to ensure any new regulations are toothless.
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One achievement of "The Free State of Jones" is the way in which it imagines its protagonist forfeiting his ties to the Confederacy, and thereby abdicating some of the benefits of whiteness -- benefits eagerly embraced and violently defended by other whites in the film.
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A controversial move: Trump's views on the deal have been widely criticized by Democrats, environmentalists and even some Republicans, who say the U.S. is abdicating global leadership at a time when urgent action is required to stem the most dangerous impacts of climate change.
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"Your administration is abdicating its constitutional duty to nominate qualified individuals into these important roles, instead enlisting individuals in an acting capacity who are more loyal to a political agenda than the missions of the agencies and departments they should be leading," the letter said.
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Once again the outcome is all too likely to rest on pure tribalism: Unless some Republicans develop a very late case of conscience, they will vote along party lines with the full knowledge that they're abdicating their constitutional duty to provide advice and consent.
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"The United States is not only abdicating humanitarian leadership and responsibility-sharing in response to the worst global displacement and refugee crisis since World War II, but compromising critical strategic interests and reneging on commitments to allies and vulnerable populations," the International Rescue Committee said.
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Even with the United States abdicating its traditional role as an advocate for freedom, and with China and Russia pressing their authoritarian models, people rose up and spoke up against corruption and for dignity and self-expression, often at great risk and against great odds.
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"Handmaid&aposs Tale" star Elisabeth Moss, winner of last year&aposs top drama actress award, is likely to end up competing one more time against another Elizabeth — Claire Foy&aposs British queen in Netflix&aposs "The Crown," with Foy abdicating the role as the saga progresses.
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Jon Snow was easily one of the best first-round picks in the league, earning some great points by not only coming back from the fucking dead but also killing his Night's Watch betrayers in one fell swoop before dropping the mic and abdicating his post. Dope.
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In his address at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, Biden criticized Trump for abdicating the United States' leadership role in the world and argued that collective action is necessary to confront threats posed by climate change, nuclear proliferation, terrorism and cyberwarfare.
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If these trends continue, America will face significant challenges to its economic, innovation, and scientific leadership, and will risk abdicating ascendancy in industries like AI, sustainable energy, genomics, quantum computing, and robotics, industries that will define the future of the United States as well as the world.
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In a statement, the senator and presidential candidate said Barr's decision was part of "a larger pattern of the Attorney General abdicating his responsibility to uphold the law," also citing recent statements by Barr that there remained a legal pathway to including a citizenship question on the 2020 census.
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Sen. Brian SchatzBrian Emanuel Schatz'Medicare for All' complicates Democrats' pitch to retake Senate Criminal justice reform should extend to student financial aid Booker, Durbin and Leahy introduce bill to ban death penalty MORE (D-Hawaii) is accusing Republicans of abdicating their "moral and political responsibility" to address climate change.
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A while later, James acknowledged seeing something else — a player in Durant and a team in the Golden State Warriors, who not only buzz-sawed through his Cleveland Cavaliers in five games, clinching their title with a 214-120 victory, but who may not be abdicating any time soon.
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In a dissent in December, Justice Thomas, joined by Justice Scalia, accused the court of ignoring the Heller decision and abdicating its responsibility to enforce the constitutional right to keep and bear arms when it refused to hear a Second Amendment challenge to a law that banned semiautomatic assault weapons.
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"Political power in the West has been failing its own test of legitimacy and accountability since 2008 — and in its desperation has chosen to erode it further by unforgivably abdicating responsibility through the use of a referendum on the E.U.," said Nader Mousavizadeh, who co-leads the London-based global consulting firm Macro Advisory Partners.
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The Republican reaction—the effort to protect Trump and discredit Comey—is evidence of another: a crisis of ultra-partisanship, where the nation's governing party has opted against oversight and accountability, abdicating its role in our system of checks and balances and allowing that president free rein, as long as he signs its legislation and nominates its judges.
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With the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) reins now in the hands of a Republican majority, the agency voted in December to no longer treat high-speed internet as a telecommunications service, essentially abdicating its own authority to prevent broadband providers from freely slowing or blocking online services, as they had repeatedly done before, and in some cases after, the 2015 order was passed.
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The Climate Deniers Have WonAt President Trumps' behest, the US is joining Syria and Nicaragua in abdicating from the Paris…Read more ReadAccording to the Washington Post, EPA sent out an email to union leaders this week to inform them that buyout offers would be coming soon and that the deadline to submit an application will be September 2, 2017.
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As Nichols observes near the end of this book: "Laypeople complain about the rule of experts and they demand greater involvement in complicated national questions, but many of them only express their anger and make these demands after abdicating their own important role in the process: namely, to stay informed and politically literate enough to choose representatives who can act on their behalf."
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He was rumored to have poisoned at least two of the four popes appointed after him, including Clement II, who lasted a mere 10 months before dying and abdicating the throne to Benedict, and the following pope, Damasus II. Following Damasus, Henry III was finally able to install Leo IX, who elevated the post, traveling widely while campaigning against simony and corruption to massive, adoring crowds.
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Instead of doing something large and magnificent, like putting a man on the moon or leading the way forward to address climate change, we are abdicating our leadership, our scientific knowledge, and our creativity to instead kowtow to the fossil fuel industry and a way of life that is going to die anyway, and in dying, lead to deaths across many species, including perhaps our own.
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"I'll leave it to the investigators to decide whether or not there was collusion or conspiracy, but we don't need a lengthy investigation to tell us that Trump is ignoring the intelligence community about an urgent threat, refusing to stand up to an adversary who has already attacked us, and abdicating his responsibility to preserve, protect and defend our national security interests," she said.
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And it gave us another reminder that Mr. Trump is hellbent on abdicating the leadership on climate change Mr. Obama worked so hard to achieve — first with a suite of regulatory measures and then by making an emissions-reduction pledge at the 2015 Paris climate summit meeting strong enough to induce 194 other nations to sign on to what had all the makings of a historic global agreement.
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The privatization initiative was at first a response to the armed services' own inability to maintain adequate housing for service members in the 1990s, but abdicating control of these housing units to for-profit corporations has exacerbated the issue, leading to a breach of contract and negligence suit filed by 10 military families against Corvias Management, the company that has managed private housing at the military base in Fort Meade, Md., since 2002.
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Bennie ThompsonBennie Gordon ThompsonHillicon Valley: House panel subpoenas 28503chan owner | FCC takes step forward on T-Mobile-Sprint merger | Warren wants probe into FTC over Equifax settlement | Groups make new push to end surveillance program House Homeland Security Committee subpoenas 22019chan owner What Mississippi ICE raids mean for vulnerable workers MORE (D-Miss.) and Robert Brady (D-Pa.) in a statement Tuesday accused Trump of "abdicating his oath of office" by refusing to act on election security.
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Former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenGabbard moves to New Hampshire ahead of primary Biden hammers Trump over video of world leaders mocking him Trump's legal team huddles with Senate Republicans MORE on Monday hit President TrumpDonald John TrumpStates slashed 4,85033 environmental agency jobs in past decade: study Biden hammers Trump over video of world leaders mocking him Iran building hidden arsenal of short-range ballistic missiles in Iraq: report MORE on foreign policy ahead of this week's NATO summit, accusing the president of abdicating U.S. leadership.
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"We have a fundamental set of threats to the bedrock of our democracy, and anyone who stands in the way of confronting those threats, from Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellLawmakers run into major speed bumps on spending bills Budowsky: Donald, Boris, Bibi — The right in retreat Hillicon Valley: Zuckerberg to meet with lawmakers | Big tech defends efforts against online extremism | Trump attends secretive Silicon Valley fundraiser | Omar urges Twitter to take action against Trump tweet MORE and his allies, to the president himself, is abdicating their responsibility to protect and defend the constitution," Clinton said.
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