The phrase "assess responsibility" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when evaluating or determining the accountability of individuals or groups in a specific situation or context.
Example: "In order to move forward with the project, we need to assess responsibility for the delays that have occurred."
Alternatives: "evaluate accountability" or "determine liability".
Russian prosecutors said they would open a criminal investigation to assess responsibility for the environmental damage.
The authorities moved with unusual speed to assess responsibility for the accident.
If, indeed, it mattered, it would be impossible finally to assess responsibility for the ensuing fracas.
Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the Army chief of staff, ordered the inquiry to determine how Rolling Stone was granted access to a wartime commander and also to assess responsibility for quotations offensive to civilian leaders.
KABUL, Afghanistan — A commission appointed by President Hamid Karzai to assess responsibility for the massive fraud at Kabul Bank issued its report on Sunday, absolving the president's brother of any blame.
The commission, appointed by President Karzai to assess responsibility for the wide-ranging fraud scheme, said last month that 207 borrowers, including members of the president's cabinet and Parliament, had taken out undocumented loans.
If implemented, the Law Commission plans would not just weaken cohabitation but destroy it, by turning it, as alleged, into a kind of feeble, inadvertent form of matrimony in which the authorities similarly presume to take sides, assess responsibilities and guess at private intentions.
And how, with so many of our witnesses, when it comes to assessing responsibility, all fingers point away from themselves.
Yet, in assessing responsibility, the commission pointed not to current students and administrators but to an insular university culture that for years had resisted change and discouraged criticism.
Cook repeatedly deflected questions about Iranian culpability in the attack on the Mason or the missile systems employed in the unsuccessful attempts on the ship, saying that the US was still assessing responsibility.
There's no way of pinpointing who is in charge of what and assessing responsibility over time.
