The phrase "argue responsibility for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the attribution of blame or accountability in a particular situation or context.
Example: "During the meeting, the team members began to argue responsibility for the project's failure."
Alternatives: "assign blame for" or "attribute responsibility for".
The administration argues the responsibility for security rests primarily with the Iraqi government and the White House repeated its earlier criticism of Maliki for his failure to secure national support with more inclusive policies.
Some politicians and commentators have argued that responsibility for the heat wave deaths reflects an erosion of family values, because many of the elderly who died were left alone by relatives.
Glasgow (forthcoming) similarly argues for responsibility for implicit biases that may not be attributable to agents.
He argues that responsibility for policy needs to change so people affected by decisions feel they have a say.
Though I can neither act for another nor directly influence their freedom, I must, Beauvoir argues, accept responsibility for the fact that my actions produce the conditions within which the other acts.
A particularly important challenge comes from an interlocutor who accepts the notion of universal subsistence rights, but argues that responsibility for their fulfilment rests with the nation of the bearer of the duty [ 23].
But if a previous owner replaced the terrace door as a private improvement, the co-op could argue that the responsibility for ongoing repairs or replacement is now the shareholder's.
If they choose to have children, some would argue, then the responsibility for organising and paying for childcare lies solely at their door.
Some argue that placing responsibility for addiction on the individual's 'brain' neglects the role of the social environment – ranging from family to workplace, to broader structural and cultural dynamics – as a contributor to addiction.
Many have criticized other European countries' lackluster response and have argued that the responsibility for handling the arrival of tens of thousands of migrants and refugees annually to the European Union should not largely fall on one single country in the block.
