Sentence examples for fragmented responsibility from inspiring English sources

The London Assembly has warned that: "Fragmented responsibility for maintaining flood defences and lack of clarity over planning are putting London at risk of severe flooding".

Rather than appearing to evade accountability in a smokescreen of bureaucracy and fragmented responsibility, the UN needs to find a way to address either failures by its own senior personnel to do their job effectively or − a more likely but concerning reality − serious systematic failures within the UN's approach to peacekeeping.

The project's 'failure' is only apparent when viewed from certain perspectives; nevertheless, these perspectives are those of the powerful (or in Bourdieu's (1986 , 1988 terms, those possessing capital and academic power) and are the consequence of deeply-rooted structural features in HE, which include funding models, risk-averseness, and fragmented responsibilities.

In an opaque system dominated by industry lobbying, fragmented regulation and responsibility, that can only be a good thing.

Cyprus does not have a National Food Safety Authority (NFSA), but a multi-level, fragmented system with responsibilities divided among different ministries and governmental agencies, frequently impeding efforts to effectively manage food risks by duplication and overlapping of responsibilities.

The American decentralized system of checks and balances has transmogrified into a fragmented system that scatters responsibility.

Banks were miffed that regulators did not tell them about a big attack on NASDAQ in 2010 until more than three months later.Within government, responsibility is fragmented.

The setup so dilutes leadership of the schools, Mr. Cortines argued, that responsibility is fragmented and the mayor is forced to horse trade to try to get what he wants from the board, with mixed results.

"The UN must take immediate action when it receives reports of sexual violence by peacekeepers to stop the violations and hold the perpetrators accountable... Above all, UN staff and agencies must end the bureaucratic cycle in which responsibility is fragmented and accountability is passed from one agency to another".

Given the fact that the disease develops slowly and does not create the panic caused by a flu pandemic, there is a lack of urgency and responsibility is fragmented, with governments facing opposition from powerful lobby groups such as the tobacco industry, says the report.

The biggest challenge I found was that, instead of having whole days or weeks to concentrate on giving a presentation, writing a paper, or planning an experiment, I had to fit lecture preparation and other work responsibilities into fragmented segments of an hour here and there.