deliberate neglect
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdeliberateandneglect
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deliberate
adjective
uk/dɪˈlɪb.ər.ət/us/dɪˈlɪb.ɚ.ət/
(often of something bad) intentional ...
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neglect
noun[U]
uk/nɪˈɡlekt/us/nɪˈɡlekt/
a situation in which you do not give enough care or attention to someone or something, or the state of not receiving enough care ...
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(Definition ofdeliberateandneglectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This was a crime ofdeliberateneglectof and indifference to starvation, exposure and disease.
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Two decades ofdeliberateneglectby governments and donors of the rural sectors and a rapidly changing context for agriculture have created some huge challenges.
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Petroleum underpricing, coupled withdeliberateneglectof refineries, created shortages and smuggling opportunities that brought scarcity rents to those in the military that controlled oil flows.
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But theirdeliberateneglectof the urban problem means that limited 'know-why' of the larger scale is generated and no ambitions for urban order are apparent.
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Had they, perhaps, been guilty of adeliberateneglectof duty, or had there been professional failure or momentary loss of "grip"?
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In the south particularly, the basic utilities—power and water supplies—were in a dreadful state as a result of the former regime's policy ofdeliberateneglect.
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There have been many instances ofdeliberateneglectcited in the press, and presumably from the lists there are many more.
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I believe that those omissions constitute a case ofdeliberateneglect, and to ignore their pleas for further consideration would be quite unjustified.
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That is of course the result of the neglect and negligence, if notdeliberateneglect, of the county council.
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What value has the quick buck when people live blighted and shortened lives because ofdeliberateneglectin the provision of public services?
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That would get rid of all question of whether the neglect was adeliberateneglector a casual neglect.
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I could give many instances within my own experience of accidents in which people have been seriously injured by the almostdeliberateneglectof fellow-workmen.
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I think it would be a mistake, and harmful, to give the impression thatdeliberateneglectis very widespread.
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Only by such a procedure can the inevitable charges ofdeliberateneglect, economic blackmail and closure by stealth be substantiated or repudiated for ever.
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There was thedeliberateneglectof existing small communities and attempts to eliminate them.
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Any junior officer in the most humble line of communication formation in the war would have been court-martialled for incompetence anddeliberateneglectfor having done that.
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Clause 10 most carefully recognises the fact that in many cases the reason why the county councils have not provided small holdings is notdeliberateneglect, but financial.
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So began several years ofdeliberateneglectand decline and retrenchment designed to reduce the former busy trunk route into a state whereby closure could be easily achieved.
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