Sentence examples for assuming responsibilities from inspiring English sources

Workers' rights groups say that while many brands boast that they are complying with codes of conduct to protect workers, the brands at the same time balk at assuming responsibilities when contractors' violate their obligations to their workers.

(And at what point would this responsibility end?) JON LEE ANDERSON: Very good question, and rather challenging, too, because it throws up the prospect of former colonial powers — such as France — not merely (re)assuming responsibilities to come to the aid of a former colony but also something of the baggage that comes with them.

Mr. Nussbaum had been senior vice president and chief financial officer at Kinko's Inc. LANDACORP, Atlanta, named Gene Miller chief operating officer, assuming responsibilities from Gene Cattarina, president and chief executive who had also served as interim chief operating officer since April.

Dear AOL colleague, I'm pleased to announce that Ted Cahall has agreed to take on an expanded role as President of Products & Technologies, assuming responsibilities for several key AOL products.

Rescuing the workers should take the form of paying for their retraining, relocation, and extended unemployment benefits, and even assuming responsibilities for their health insurance and retirement funds, now paid for by the Big Three.

They became the primary breadwinners of the family, assuming responsibilities of household decision-making.

I'm not assuming responsibility for health and safety policies".

Iraqis are assuming responsibility for their own circumstances at a rapid rate.

But by the simple act of assuming responsibility for a child?

Mr. Nordberg will become co-president Sept. 1 before assuming responsibility on Oct. 15.

"In the absence of any group assuming responsibility all options are open," she added.