Sentence examples for commensurate responsibility from inspiring English sources

Yet the privileges come without commensurate responsibility.

"But, you know," he added, "I so wish that people who luxuriate in their First Amendment rights would take just one little bit of commensurate responsibility in enjoying those rights".

At a time when lawmakers and educators in New York and across the nation are imposing tougher academic standards -- mandatory tests on which graduation and sometimes promotion depends, more demanding course requirements, sanctions on "failing schools" -- states have a commensurate responsibility to provide the resources to give all students a fair chance to succeed.

Equally relevant is reasoning from critics like Pogge and Benatar et al who argue that the past and present policies of wealthy nations have created and maintained poverty and ill health and, therefore, that wealthy nations bear a commensurate responsibility to help alleviate these problems [ 35].

5. UNICEF Afghanistan leadership should detail outputs and targets against which to report upstream performance, in order to highlight priorities for upstream work and to be able to assign commensurate responsibilities for staff.

Before the election Cameron sloppily conceded more devolution to Edinburgh with no commensurate fiscal responsibility.

But Mr. Zoellick said on Friday that he and Mr. Amorim were still at loggerheads over the idea of benefits commensurate with responsibilities.

And you get into your dream grad school or internship which leads to a super job with a paycheck commensurate with responsibilities of leadership or if you somehow get that documentary on a shoe-string budget and it gets accepted at Sundance and maybe it wins Sundance and then you go on to be nominated for an Oscar and then you win the Oscar.

For this reason, WikiLeaks must assume a responsibility commensurate with the scale of its whistle-blowing.

Learning to work hard, get tougher, achieve a level of responsibility commensurate with his talent.

The next president and Congress must define a course next year in which the United States exerts leadership commensurate with our responsibility for the present dangerous situation.