0 past simple and past participle of shirk
1 to avoid work, duties, or responsibilities, especially if they are difficult or unpleasant:
If you shirk your responsibilities/duties now, the situation will be much harder to deal with next month.
I will not shirk from my obligations.
Basically, boundary nouns are shirked at conflict sites.
It is that even very modest burdens of citizenship are shirked.
And further, '(he) shall be failing in (his) duty if he shirked any responsibility which may be cast on (him)'.
It has not switched sides, has not threatened the government, and has not shirked from combat - three traits of many past mercenary operations.
Where there are controversies, they have not been shirked.
In short, we find no evidence that lame ducks shirked toward the president, viewed narrowly as the agent of his party.
But it would fail to explain why biological parents also owe the support to their children and why their children may rightfully complain if the duty is shirked.
Close inquiry is not so much guarded against as shirked by those who wish to believe in it.
