dereliction

How To Use dereliction In A Sentence

• Around 140 luxury homes are being built around the course as part of a deal to save one of Ireland's great stately homes from dereliction.
• The worst dereliction is tolerance of rave parties where illegal drugs are sold and used, and minors are sexually exploited. Sound Politics: Seattle needs more police; and needs to use better sense in deploying the ones it already has
• Then the regional financial crisis hit and suddenly the air was full of accusations of bureaucratic ineptitude, corruption and outright dereliction of duty.
• If this dereliction is allowed to persist, it is predictable that more Americans will die, both on foreign battlefields and at home. Stealth Jihad by Frank Gaffney, Jr. and The American Legion « Mark12ministries’s Weblog
• Apologies should be taken automatically as acknowledgement of personal complicity in the crime or dereliction.
• His apparent instruction to passport control officers to wave through hordes of visitors unchecked was a grotesque dereliction of duty. The Sun
• Why has nobody publicly paid the price for gross and blatant dereliction of duty? The Sun
• + But they were without God in the world; having cast off his fear, and the apprehension of his presence, and their accountableness, which often follow the dereliction of the divine institutions. Sermons on Various Important Subjects
• Later, in a memorial service for the disaster's victims, Gustav sought to spread a pall of general bafflement over events, including the government's dereliction.
• He's charged with maltreating detainees, conspiracy to maltreat detainees, dereliction of duty and indecency.