Sentence examples for dumping responsibility from inspiring English sources

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.

That would dump responsibility for Gaza on neighbouring Egypt.

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

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".

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

Don't laugh: this is exactly what the U.S. Congress has done over the past two years, dumping its responsibility on the Fed.

Dump responsibility on the big guy.

Many town bosses, including from the PT, despise Ms Rousseff for dumping more responsibilities and less cash on local government.