Sentence examples for dumped responsibility from inspiring English sources

There are few reading this letter (myself included) who haven't at one point dumped responsibility for their woes on to undeserving shoulders.

That would dump responsibility for Gaza on neighbouring Egypt.

Local government supremo, Eric Pickles, openly brags about doing down councils while dumping responsibility for some of the harshest cuts on them under the pretence of devolving power.

But the coalition has resolved the tension between green and growth in a less than convincing fashion: by dumping responsibility for the environmental impacts on someone else.

At the same time, through various "decentralizations," the national government has been dumping responsibility downward onto the departments, including the costs for most roads and maintenance, school construction and caring for the elderly, the handicapped and the long-term unemployed.

But empowering is not the same as dumping responsibility.

He said Ms Villiers "may wish to dump responsibility for the scheme onto her predecessors in the Labour government, and indeed it was them who set it up, but she cannot dump responsibility for it on the Department of Justice which was told nothing about it".

He dumped the responsibility for the delay on George.

Dump responsibility on the big guy.

"Until management takes responsibility for the building repairs, it's unconscionable for them to dump their responsibility onto the backs of their tenants," said Joyce S. Mincheff, president of the residents' association at the complex.

In this phase, altruism means dumping the responsibility on your political adversary.