be negligent
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Dominic Smithies, a spokesman for the charity, told the BBC his understanding was that there was already a duty of care for universities "not to be negligent or harmful".
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2023
That would be negligent on the owner’s part.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2023
“While empathetic of the community that it’s a hardship and a burden, I most certainly would be negligent if we ignored the risk this storm presents.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2023
"It would be negligent not to take the inflationary development into account," he said.
From Reuters ● Jun. 16, 2022
And if any Master or Father of a Family be negligent herein, the Overseer for that Circuit shall 246 admonish him between them two.
From The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer by Lewis Henry Berens
