How To Use Shirking In A Sentence
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By ignoring their epistemic and metaphysical brokenness, we are shirking our Christian duty to truly show love for our neighbor.
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Any homilist who fails to address this is shirking his duty.
The Burning Hell
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Renouncing these prodigal sons and attempting to lay them at the door of the west is shirking responsibility.
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You're supposed to tidy up, so stop shirking and do it!
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Here Moses claims God is shirking responsibility for his people.
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Surrender is not the same as shirking one's responsibilities or assumption of passivity.
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This shirking of my writing does not bode well for my prospects when I get a ‘real’ job.
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All through those weeks of killings the state and Central government kept on shirking their responsibilities.
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Rather than shirking from the term palliative care, they have thrown their weight and credibility behind it in a further effort to educate clinicians and consumers about palliative care and to reduce stigma associated with the term.
Pallimed: A Hospice & Palliative Medicine Blog
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In practice it means a set of extremely rotten values: greed, self-absorption, atomization, suspiciousness, superstition, lying (especially to ones' self), responsibility-shirking, resentment ('coveting'), and ultimately, nihilism ('rapture').
Your Right Hand Thief
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And they have suggested strongly that America is shirking its moral responsibility when it refuses to venture abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
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Phil was as cool and calm as though he were going to gently tund a small fag for shirking.
Acton's Feud A Public School Story
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It exposes the shirking scrimshank, who presumably preserves his legs from unnecessary exertion.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1
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‘It is a matter of law and not of fact,’ she said, adding that in her opinion, to decline to hear the matter would be shirking her responsibility as a judge.
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The lighting of the stove and the provision of the tea were done on a rota basis with nobody shirking their duty including the washing up.
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Foerster reported that employers often described the Italian worker as “lazy, shirking, tricky, a time server” and complained that Italians were known—just as slaves were once known—to “feign sickness in order not to have to work in bad weather.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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I can never be accused of shirking my responsibilities.
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Your columnists would be shirking their responsibility if they ignored these factors.
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If not, they are shirking their duty - both to the national defense and to the very goal of diversity that they profess to cherish.
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Five hundred men were caught shirking their duty; one out of every ten was selected for execution, which is why the procedure was called decimation analogous to our word decimal, that is, one-tenth.
The Spartacus War
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The root cause is specialization amongst the lower ranks in the Force, which is a cover for shirking responsibility.
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I'd be shirking my duty if I didn't warn him.
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The problems of shirking are certainly not limited to law school faculty either -- there are many, many faculty who turn off the research pump (or at least dial it down dramatically) once the tenure is achieved?
Balkinization
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We will do so without shirking our responsibility to the people of this district.
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Soon they were slacking off in school, shirking responsibilities, and turning to harder drugs for a better high.
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A reader would understandably begin to suspect that he might be shirking his imaginative responsibilities here by offering us nothing more than an unsympathetic portrait of an unsympathetic character.
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You're supposed to tidy up, so stop shirking and do it!
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No decent Aussie wants to support queue jumping or shirking responsibility.
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Five hundred men were caught shirking their duty; one out of every ten was selected for execution, which is why the procedure was called decimation analogous to our word decimal, that is, one-tenth.
The Spartacus War
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But he's going to do it shamefully and in full recognisance that he's basically shirking his intellectual responsibilities to the world.
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Some go to the other extreme, shirking classroom encounters for more bureaucratic enticements.
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Yet rejection of DIY killing and eating pet animals is increasingly cast as "squeamish" - shirking a necessary evil like cleaning up vomit instead of shirking voluntary and unnecessary violence.
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Insightful without being pedantic, learned but not overbearing, the book is full of humorous anecdotes while never shirking the factual responsibility of the historian.
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Who takes action, and with what promptness, against teachers seen to be even brazenly shirking their duties?
