Sentence examples for exercise of responsibility from inspiring English sources

"James Murdoch's exercise of responsibility was less than we would expect to see exhibited by a competent chief executive officer," the regulator concluded of this episode.

The regulator continues by saying that he "repeatedly fell short of the exercise of responsibility to be expected of him as CEO and chairman" of News International.

"We consider that James Murdoch's failure to apprise himself of this information, given the information which he accepts he knew, fell short of the exercise of responsibility to be expected of the chief executive officer and the chairman," Ofcom said.

The exercise of responsibility in achieving the desired educational balance belongs first with the student, who, after all, has the strongest interest in the value of his or her education.

The precautionary principle stems from this new approach linking responsibility to uncertainty and focusing specifically on the preventive exercise of responsibility rather than on its subsequent ascription (be it via fault or risk management mechanisms).

Therefore, the exercise of responsibility must extend beyond the boundaries of what is legally due/binding and must engage with the collective shaping of societally acceptable trajectories for research and innovation.

He even suggests that, since people must be properly fit if democracy is to function well, a despotic form of government, if well-run with this aim in mind, might prepare its people for the exercise of responsibilities of a free electorate.

Although he does not make the point, they seem to be more a matter of administration, and that is in keeping with his essentially consensual view of the formal exercise of responsibilities by those invested with the confidence of the nation as a whole.

It said his behaviour was "difficult to comprehend and ill-judged" and that it repeatedly "fell short of the exercise of his responsibility to be expected of him as CEO and chairman [of News International]".

Ms. Harris's transparently political effort to curtail the counting of valid votes in Florida and not allow some adjustment for these extraordinary circumstances is a twisted exercise of her responsibility as an elected official.

Dr. Albright praised Mr. Havel for his own exercise of international responsibility, most recently in canceling a $30 million contract between Russia and a Czech company to sell air-conditioning equipment for a nuclear reactor in Iran.