Ambitions were also dented by the onus on countries to make pledges in advance of a final deal or, often, knowledge of other countries' offers.
By throwing the onus onto pupils, you actually increase their learning.
But the measure adopted today would pave the way for a possible bailout of huge proportions by shifting the onus to the administration.
By putting the onus on Congress to provide the authority for streamlining the government, Mr. Obama is seizing a core Republican issue — the inexorable growth of the public sector in recent decades — and trying to turn it to his advantage.
But other fiscal monitors and budget experts suggested that having the backup plan could also be a tactical step: a way of pressuring the unions and Albany into cooperating by putting the onus of drastic cuts on them.
At the beginning of the month, the White House offered a proposal to avert the current debt-ceiling crisis — and the next one, and the one after that — by transferring the onus of raising the ceiling from Congress to the executive branch.
There are occasions when his or her inclusion is unavoidable but most of the year's greatest examples of the genre (Amy, Dreamcatcher, Going Clear) have succeeded by placing the onus on the subject in front of the camera, not behind.
Opponents insisted the changes are only cosmetic -- an assertion refuted by commission members -- and does not go nearly far enough to address the real problems in the law, which they said unfairly gives developers the upper hand by putting the onus on local zoning boards to approve applications for developments that set aside at least 30percentt of its units as affordable.
The prospect of higher welfare spending and more government outlays to cover interest payments on its debt means that if the budget is to be balanced as planned by 2018-19, the onus is likely to fall on public sector pay and procurement, said the OBR, which was set up to provide independent forecasts to the government.
But by pushing the onus for high commodity prices onto countries that link their currencies to the dollar, the Fed is playing a dangerous game.
