Sentence examples for costly responsibilities from inspiring English sources

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The financial state of the regional governments is so bad, in fact, that some may be willing — maybe even eager — to shed some of their wide-ranging and costly responsibilities, like health care and education.

It is to invest in our heritage, which is an enormous, costly responsibility".

Monitoring street infrastructure is a slow and costly responsibility for municipalities.

Whenever one layer of government can push an unpleasant or costly responsibility down to the level below, it nearly always does so.

The city's taxi commission is taking on what David S. Yassky, the taxi commissioner, has said could be a costly responsibility: educating drivers about the penalties for trafficking and training them to spot trafficking victims.

And because it cut property tax collections by local government by nearly two-thirds, the state, initially at Mr. Brown's behest, took on more and more costly responsibility for financing schools, welfare and other services that were once the responsibilities of local governments.

What about the frequent disconnect between children's services, which take a child into care, and adult social care departments, which have been criticised for shuffling off the costly responsibility for ensuring parents get the support they may need to have a chance of getting their child back?

They pointed to a "lack of onboard expertise and of clearly defined responsibilities" for costly decisions.

However, Mr. Kosako said, the prime minister's office refused to release the results even after it was made aware of Speedi, because officials there did not want to take responsibility for costly evacuations if their estimates were later called into question.

The time and attention that should have been given to creating stability and service improvement will instead be deployed to set up the complex new organisational and governance arrangements of an independent trust, with more complicated, confused and costly accountability for crucial statutory responsibilities to help families and to protect children.