Then it devolves into boring law-talk.
Where it devolves into domestic violence.
But it devolves power and accountability.
This responsibility devolves upon each individual; it is not a communal project and, indeed, Ibn Ezra evinces no interest in the "ideal city".
Primary responsibility for the enforcement of law devolves upon the courts and the administrative authorities.
(1) With the declaration of a state of defense the entire power of execution devolves upon the Fuehrer and Reichschancellor.
This appears as the special temptational sphere of the devil; in sexual activity, the role of the instrument of diabolic enticement devolves upon woman.
When these presumptions arise the burden devolves upon the defendant to prove to the satisfaction of the jury the legal provocation which will rob the crime of malice and reduce it to manslaughter or which will excuse the killing altogether on the ground of self-defense.
"A writer has to smash the mirror – for it is on the other side of that mirror that the truth stares at us … Despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all.
The objections on Federal grounds for our consideration are two-fold: First, that the section under consideration devolves upon the board of health absolute and despotic power to grant or withhold permits to milk dealers, and is, therefore, not due process of law; second, that singling out the milk business for regulation is a denial of the equal protection of the laws to people engaged therein.
If the right to decide about an issue devolves upon the 'doers' and the active elements of the public, then this automatically entails a disenfranchising of the less active part of the public and of those who are indirectly affected.
