The phrase 'disown responsibility' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it in sentences to mean denying or refusing to accept responsibility for something. Example sentence: The father refused to disown responsibility for his son's actions.
Fujitsu executives disowned responsibility today for the company's downturn, saying that market conditions changed too rapidly.
In a wiretapped phone call, one was heard disowning responsibility for their deaths because "it was their fate .In this section War by any other name Sarkozy held Tidal wave The Gymnasium revolt Dreams of Kurdistan Loosening the union ReprintsThe latest horrors produced more agonised hand-wringing, but no sign that Italian or European Union leaders are any closer to agreeing what should be done.
It may not be possible for government to disown the responsibility of outsourced staff delivering cutting edge services by distancing itself from the management contractor who hires the staff.
Instead, Amis takes refuge in that familiar device for disowning authorial responsibility, the writer as a character.
And it seems they are particularly skilled at disowning and evading responsibility, a trait prevalent among sexual abusers generally.
Ukip is led by the widely mistrusted Nigel Farage, a lazy crowd-pleaser who cannot work with his own colleagues, has always run away from any whiff of responsibility and disowns any statement that turns out to be unpopular, including his own.
Nike faced an outcry in the 1990s when independent reports revealed sweatshop conditions at a number of its suppliers – and which the company initially tried to disown, saying conditions were the companies' responsibility.
The Bush campaign disowned the Horton ad, and claimed to have no responsibility for it.
But today a spokesman for the group disowned the video, while experts said TTP has previously declared responsibility for events it had nothing to do with.
