Translation of "Aus der verantwortung stehlen" in English

The Commission must not shirk its responsibility in this respect.

If you try and welch or weasel your way out, then the deal is off.

It is true that not all companies escape responsibility.

Nevertheless theology cannot so easily steal out of its responsibility.

The government might be able to shirk responsibility for a while.

This will ensure that the politicians cannot sneak out of their responsibilities.

But the German people cannot slide out of their responsibility quite so easily.

While in Bonn people are trying to shirk their responsibility and avoid reducing CO2 emissions, we here are doing things properly, establishing law and giving consumers the option of cutting CO2 emissions themselves!

We would give out the message that a confederation of states such as the European Union, which believes itself to be, and indeed is, a community ruled by law, wants to evade its responsibilities by using this argument at the moment when an illegal situation is being brought to an end. We cannot expect our citizens to accept that this is a security risk.

Judicial cooperation will also ensure that a parent company cannot evade its responsibilities in relation to the action of one of its subsidiaries or of a subcontractor, when it has infringed environmental or social rules.

The multinationals, for instance those in Honduras that have not paid taxes for years, are trying to evade their responsibility.

The problems demand a joint solution, and the Council cannot evade its responsibility.

That is your duty - it is an honourable one - and you cannot evade responsibility for it.

Competition also opens up the possibility of us being in a position, in the future, to buy in transport services more cheaply, without a local authority being able to evade its responsibilities in the process.

What is going on here is an attempt at evading responsibility, at avoiding the admission that something has been done in a way that ought not to be possible.

The rich like to blame the poor, partly because it lets them off the hook, and partly because it gives them a feeling of moral superiority.

You know, a month ago, the thought of bowing out never even occurred to you.

Staying away is a political choice and no one should duck this responsibility.

But we could not discern any general programme — let alone a strategy to promote the position of women or an active policy of equality.

We should not forget that this is a live experiment, that no economic theory has ever described this process and that it is not clear how the process should ideally evolve.

I think you've put her on a pedestal and made her into some holy grail where all your problems are tied to not having her, relieving you of all responsibility.