Sentence examples for failure to accept responsibility from inspiring English sources

We acknowledge that our failure to accept responsibility for apartheid has inhibited reconciliation and transformation".

He may have succeeded, only to find himself on fresh charges of weak departmental leadership and failure to accept responsibility".

To do less will simply mean ultimate failure — failure to accept responsibility for learning from the lessons of the past and anticipating the needs of the future.

Anthony Kennedy, in his opinion, pointed out that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders explicitly prohibits psychiatrists from giving people under eighteen a diagnosis of antisocial disorder (a euphemism for sociopathy), since many signs of the disorder — egocentricity, failure to accept responsibility, impulsiveness, proneness to boredom — are natural aspects of adolescence.

In their response to her arbitration demand, lawyers for Juno said there was frustration on both sides during the meeting because of Ms. Park's "continual refusal to accept that her role in the department was that of a junior programmer and her failure to accept responsibility for failing to follow the work directives of her supervisor".

In fact, what is un-American is Gov. Granholm and the United Auto Worker's Unions' failure to accept responsibility; their sense of entitlement; and their expectation that hardworking American taxpayers should subsidize a bloated and failed business model.

Some at the paper believe it became the target for the anger of fans partly because of the failure of officials to accept responsibility.

Of the Hillsborough families' campaign against the lies that deepened their grief, Aspinall said: "The deaths of our loved ones, then the cover-up and failure of anybody to accept responsibility for the disaster, has been torture for us – 23 years of torture.

He added: "The lack of provision for essential social care for older prisoners, the confusion about who should be providing it, and the failure of so many authorities to accept responsibility for it, have been disgraceful".

The lack of provision for essential social care for older prisoners, the confusion about who should be providing it, and the failure of so many authorities to accept responsibility for it, have been disgraceful".

The song ends with: "We must blame them and cause a fuss / Before somebody thinks of blaming us!" Much of the film's satire and many of the songs are concerned with the refusal of people to accept responsibility for failure and their tendency to look for scapegoats.