These two incidents—one affirming responsibility, the other doubting it together offer a lesson about the faith in individualism that is the basis for all liberal societies.
"I can promise you this: That with all of my heart and my strength, I will affirm the responsibility that you bestow upon me today, for that which I have described as responsibility and required of other citizens must also count for me as president," Mr. Gauck said Sunday.
We affirm our responsibility to future generations to seek genuine solutions to the problem of climate change that are viable, truly sustainable and do not sacrifice the poorest people on the planet.
To be governed by its strict interpretation is to miss the more important point of why Muhammad considered it necessary: that man would affirm his responsibility for his fellow man and the Earth bequeathed to him rather than fall prey to ungratefulness or the worship self interest.
Before gaining access to national security information, government employees must take an oath affirming their responsibility to safeguard sensitive information.
Natal had gone furthest in affirming government responsibility for education and setting up the necessary administrative machinery, but, by and large, provision for schooling remained voluntary and piecemeal until the beginning of the 20th century.
"This policy affirms our responsibility to enforce the law, is moral and just, and produces consistency.
"This policy affirms our responsibility to enforce the law, is moral and just, and produces consistency," Sessions wrote in the new memo.
The ability to tend assets calls to mind foremost that there is something to tend; thus, it affirms the responsibility required to care for movable wealth.
Over the last decade, 191 countries -- virtually the entire community of nations -- have affirmed their responsibility to uphold and protect children's rights to survival, to protection, and to full development and participation.
Over the last decade, 191 countries - virtually the entire community of nations have affirmed their responsibility to uphold and protect these and other rights by ratifying the Convention on the Rights of the Child, history's most acclaimed human-rights instrument.
