Sentence examples for bears significant responsibility from inspiring English sources
The government bears significant responsibility for this unedifying debate.
A Feb. 2 report by a special committee of Enron directors concluded that Mr. Lay "bears significant responsibility" for the activities that sank the company.
By pursuing a border conflict at the expense of antipoverty and health programs, the Ethiopian government bears significant responsibility for the suffering likely to ensue.
It was the beginning of a dizzying sequence of schisms within the Kurdish rebellion, for which Talabani bears significant responsibility, and which, for a time, strengthened Saddam.
Prosecutors allege that from 2002 to 2005, Ongwen bears significant responsibility for terrifying attacks in northern Uganda when civilians were treated by the rebel group as the enemy.
He bears significant responsibility for those flawed decisions, as well as for Enron's failure to implement sufficiently rigorous procedural controls to prevent the abuses that flowed from this inherent conflict of interest.
As Human Rights Watch observed recently, "[the Bahraini government's] western allies bear significant responsibility for the worsening situation in Bahrain" owing to "a "disastrous policy of appeasement and acquiescence".
A scathing report released yesterday by a special committee of Enron's board said that Mr. Lay bore "significant responsibility" for the breakdown of controls and ethics at the company.
And his hiring coincided with Ms. Clinton's appointment as the vice chairwoman of the foundation board, where she will bear significant responsibility for steering her family's philanthropy, both in the causes it tackles and in the potential political and financial conflicts it must avoid.
