Sentence examples for devolved onto from inspiring English sources

Truman's limitations, she thinks, meant that authority devolved onto advisers like George C. Marshall, Dean Acheson, James F. Byrnes and, in general, the American foreign-policy elite.

The High Sheriff of Kent in 1426 27, Walter Culpeper, was the owner until the house devolved onto his heirs, eventually passing to Richard Culpeper (later Sir Richard Culpepper) who also owned the manor house at Oxon Hoath.

The responsibility devolves onto the product design engineer, to take reasonable care over the safety of the design.

Arguing that Bantustans matched the decolonization process then taking place in tropical Africa, the government devolved powers onto those administrations and eventually encouraged them to become "independent".

Instead, authority had devolved to homeowners.

These later devolved on Mr. de Beaumont.

Power would be devolved to regional councils.

It has been devolved to a committee.

With each retelling, facts devolved to become more sensational.

Over the past four decades, governments around the world have systematically de-regulated labour markets, shrunk the size of their labour inspectorates, and devolved labour protection either onto poor communities themselves or the very employers from whom that protection is often sought.

But the leaders onto whom Lenin's heritage devolved were divided.