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Example sentences for: negligence

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This is no excuse for negligence and rule-breaking.
Officials were incensed by: 1) the greed of the smugglers, who charge up to $60,000 per person; 2) the complicity of the shipping lines; and 3) the negligence of Hong Kong authorities.
But the main story in French papers Wednesday was the acquittals of former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius and one of his Cabinet colleagues on charges of criminal negligence and manslaughter in the deaths of hundreds of people who contracted AIDS in the 1980s from transfusions of contaminated blood.
This is unfortunate, because in his negligence he has allowed into his film dialogue (by James V. Hart and Michael Goldenberg, based on Carl Sagan's novel) that falls far beneath the standards of your average corporate memo.
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that nearly 30 students are suing their universities for "breach of contract, fraud, misrepresentation, or negligence."