Sentence examples for consequent responsibility from inspiring English sources

She accepted the award before a crowd of 900 writers, editors and publishers, and urged American writers to remain aware of their immense power in the world and their consequent responsibility not to degrade the language they had been given.

The vast majority of prosecutors are true professionals, keenly aware of their immense power and its consequent responsibility.

However, there is little or no discussion of remediation via the recognition of a standing right to health, and the consequent responsibility of the host nation to provide such services - in effect, to recognize the medical citizenship claims of such groups.

But it is most unlikely any government will commit to military choices involving regime change, and the consequent responsibilities of occupation and stabilisation.

This re-ethicization of responsibility happens on grounds that are different from the paradigm of fault too, where it was basically the justification of liability and the consequent obligation to suffer an adverse treatment (sanction or blame).

Thus, developers have been reluctant to get involved with them because of the unknown cost of making a site acceptable, and lenders have often refused to provide financing, because a builder's default might make them the owner of the property -- with the consequent legal and financial responsibility for its cleanup.

Specifically, these diseconomies include (1) an increased incidence of civil litigation; (2) increased insurance premiums for medical responsibility; (3) a consequent refusal by insurance companies to assume the warranty of the clinical risks; (4) longer waiting lists; (5) more general and unsustainable waste in healthcare expenditures.

By 1971, Gravel was urging construction of the much-argued Trans-Alaska pipeline, addressing environmental concerns by saying that the pipeline's builders and operators should have "total and absolute" responsibility for any consequent environmental damage.

When I drive my car, take a vacation or keep my house warmer than I need, I contribute infinitesimally to climate change through my emissions, and so it is reasonable to think that my responsibility for the consequent harms is relatively minor.

Some choice between hypotheses should go with the territory; some consequent make-or-break predictions are the responsibilities of a guide.

This is particularly the case with regard to the care of older people, in the light of the growing human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) and noncommunicable chronic disease epidemics, with the consequent additional social and economic pressures and responsibilities that have been placed on older people.