The result is a game in which directors both claim to be telling the truth and yet avoid judgment; the onus of moral judgments is displaced from directors to viewers, even as, in the selection of facts to show, the directors have stacked the decks.
Mr. Brahimi has thus far avoided putting the onus on the Syrian government, as the far superior military force, to stop the killing, as Mr. Annan demanded.
Tellingly, the DGB proposal avoids placing the onus on Germany to take a leadership role in addressing the crisis in Europe's uneven development (other than for Germany to initiate a wealth tax for others to emulate).
If the businesses would like to avoid governmental regulation, the onus is on them to implement such a sector wide system.
"While all parties to the conflict – including Afghan national security forces – must do more to uphold their obligations under international law to avoid harm to civilians, the onus is clearly on the Taliban and other anti-government elements to reverse this trend".
If pitchers try even harder to avoid him now, Stanton said, the onus is on him to stay disciplined.
The White House insists that it is absolutely, positively not going to cave or indeed even negotiate over the debt ceiling — that it rejected the coin option as a gesture of strength, as a way to put the onus for avoiding default entirely on the GOP.
That advice doesn't just put the onus on women to avoid normal behavior like walking in public or going out with friends; it fundamentally misstates the reality of most rapes, which are disproportionately perpetrated by someone the victim knows, usually in her home or theirs.
Informed consent procedures that clearly indicate that it is a patient's responsibility to periodically check back in with their provider after a VUS result would put the onus on patients, and avoid some of the pitfalls of patients changing address or changing physicians.
