Sentence examples for Reduced responsibilities from inspiring English sources

The revamping would have left Mr. Zelnick and Mr. Dornemann with reduced responsibilities.

Others hope to keep older workers around with reduced responsibilities, and a small but growing minority is offering options that blend volunteer work with traditional employment.

In one, often called quid pro quo harassment, the supervisor takes an adverse action -- like dismissal, failing to promote, reducing benefits or reassigning with significantly reduced responsibilities -- against an employee who refuses to submit to the supervisor's sexual demands.

Their reduced responsibilities after selling Skype in 2005 left Friis and Zennström ample time to pursue other interests, notably Joost, an Internet video service that they founded in 2006.

Among those leaving government or accepting reduced responsibilities were foreign secretary William Hague, education secretary Michael Gove, and Ken Clarke, a minister without portfolio who had long been the most consistent pro-EU voice within the Conservative front bench.

Still for others it could mean telecommuting or taking on a role with reduced responsibilities at the same company.

"The defense has maximized sympathy and reduced responsibility," Jacobs said.

State financing formulas, though well intentioned, may also reduce responsibilities of local school boards to find the most effective educational services for their communities.

How can an ill executive preserve authority and reduce responsibility?

He forcefully rejected what he saw as not just simplistic but inherently apologetic attempts to reduce responsibility for Germany's disaster to the ideology, intentions and actions of Hitler and his immediate underlings.

"It takes away the need to meet the standard no matter what it costs, because [Sadredin] wants language in there that reduces responsibility if it's economically or technologically unfeasible," says Tom Frantz, a local almond farmer and outspoken environmental activist.