Dereliction used in a sentence

Dereliction in a sentence as a noun

"Not every instance of dereliction of duty is a coup... but at the extreme, yeah.

Well, the OIC for Abu Ghraib didn't get court-martialed or relieved for dereliction of duty; did they?

I have traveled to various countries where people live in various states of dereliction and despair and I have lived with them there.

It is a dystopia of automation, describing the dereliction it causes in the quality of life.

It would be a gross dereliction of management's duty to shareholders to repatriate it unless really needed.

If there were any justice in our system, lawmakers who put that confidentiality clause in there could be sued for dereliction of duty and/or negligence.

Investing client funds based on unreliable long-term predictions would be an irresponsible dereliction of duty on the part of the fund manager.

The standards applied to these CEOs do not admit of the precise specification needed for clear differentiation between error in judgment, bad luck, malfeasance or dereliction of duty.

" [0]Exposing the secret police agencies for dereliction of duty, corruption, violation of the law and their own enabling legislation, and counterproductive stupidity isn't treason.

It would, in my mind, be more agreeable to say that the 24 hr news cycle was negligent and in dereliction of their duties as members of the free press to not report the story simply in the scope that it wouldn't generate enough viewers as, say, the Bieber thing.

"Rhoads defended the procedure, calling the officers’ actions “on point.” It’s not standard to conduct investigations beforehand because that delays the apprehension of suspects, he told me."That is dereliction of a police officer's duty.

So while I feel that the largest swath of the American Military is criminally negligent and in dereliction of duty by not addresses these constitutional issues as required by oath, I wonder what process the civilian contractors go through and if they swear any sort of oath other than the legal one regarding classified information?