"a new responsibility" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used in a variety of contexts, but usually refers to a task or duty that has been recently assigned or acquired. Example: After receiving a promotion at work, Sarah was excited to take on her new responsibility of managing a team of employees.
That, in turn, suggests that this all-news environment is creating a new responsibility for The Times and other serious media: systematically to look back, recall and remind.
"Foreign Languages Fade in Class -- Except Chinese" (news article, Jan . 21 rightly suggests that American schools are recognizing and addressing a new responsibility to prepare our children for the 21st century: a greater familiarity with today's China.
I can't say what the Googlers think, but my bet is that this counter filtering will produce a new responsibility for data vendors, placing the onus on the search publishers to be responsible for what private data is made widely available when the appropriate IP owners (parents and individuals) have registered a social DMCA notice.
Councils have a new responsibility this winter.
I did wake up with a new responsibility.
Last week, a new responsibility was added to the premature ageing of the adolescent.
For D'aja Robinson, a 14-year-old Queens girl, a friend's birthday party on Saturday afternoon was a chance for celebration and the mark of a relatively new responsibility — going out and coming home on her own.
"It's a whole new responsibility.
We are not just bringing them together, but we are giving them a whole new responsibility to protect this nation".
By Sabine Dolan and David McKenzie MANJAKANDRINA, Madagascar, 11 July 2005 – Thirteen-year-old Lanee, who lives in this small village, has an important new responsibility: She is now a 'big sister' for her first-grade schoolmate, Nadia.
They recognize the very real existential threat we face as a species and the new responsibility we must shoulder.
