The phrase "a basic responsibility to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing obligations or duties that are fundamental or essential in a particular context.
Example: "As a member of the community, it is a basic responsibility to support local initiatives and volunteer for events."
Alternatives: "an essential duty to" or "a fundamental obligation to".
First, an individual health insurance mandate must be adopted, as all Americans possess a basic responsibility to themselves and society to be covered, aided by obvious government financial subsidies.
"The hirer of Hillsborough and its owner both had a duty of care, a basic responsibility to ensure a semi-final venue had an up-to-date safety certificate," Burnham said.
The clause holds that employers have a basic responsibility to provide a workplace that's "free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to [their] employees".
Say what you will about coincidences, "Tom Bedlam" demonstrates that in the hands of a writer like George Hagen, they can help fiction fulfill its most basic responsibility: to make an impossibly large and dangerous world small enough to see whole.
Adair ran a fertilizer company that stored tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate, failed to follow government safety guidelines and -- laws or no laws -- shirked his basic responsibility to prevent a foreseeable, preventable and tragic disaster.
On Sept. 11, 2001, the federal government failed in most important and basic responsibility — to protect us from an attack.
There is an assumed professionalism that comes with being in someone's network -- basic responsibility to treat other human beings the way you would want to be treated, regardless of your title, your industry, or your accolades.
"That sort of practice comes frighteningly close to abdicating the court's basic responsibility to protect the rights of children and families".
"If we deny due process, we're failing in our most basic responsibility to uphold and defend the Constitution," he said.
As a result, Mr. Smith said, the truth-seekers online — often journalists — do what they have always done offline: use their "morally basic responsibility" to ensure people are telling the truth.
