Sentence examples for inherited responsibilities from inspiring English sources

FOR Anne Tyler's earlier characters, the question of belonging or not belonging always referred to family: whether one elected to stay safe within the claustrophobic confines of an extended family or ventured out alone into the outside world; whether one sacrificed freedom and independence to take on inherited responsibilities or risked rootlessness and alienation by leaving home and hearth.

One incident in particular drove home how deeply he felt his inherited responsibilities.

Both women were deeply concerned about their ability to carry out newly inherited responsibilities, and about the tone of relationships with their kin.

He added that he "inherited" responsibility for that situation.

The company also inherited responsibility for that crash from Railtrack.

There is no such thing as inherited guilt, but inherited responsibility endures.

The General Services Administration rolled out SF152 in May 1967, when it inherited responsibility for standard and optional forms.

Three years later, he has inherited responsibility for the terrain he surveyed from that tank.

Each Aborigine inherited responsibility for a particular Dreaming story and the parcel of land on which it took place.

Recently, Main began showing signs of Alzheimer's and moved into a home, and Mason inherited responsibility for the study.

On the day in 1998 that he inherited responsibility for the dome from Peter Mandelson, he reportedly told a friend how thrilled he was with his new responsibility.