Sentence examples for its most basic responsibility from inspiring English sources

On issue after issue facing our country, this is a Republican Party so obsessed with blocking the president -- and now suing the president -- that it has abdicated its most basic responsibility to govern.

Congress has headed home for holiday feasting having failed to meet its most basic responsibility -- approving the bills that pay for another year's government.

Even so, the Russian side will find it hard to forget and forgive Ankara's failure to carry out its most basic responsibility of keeping diplomats safe.

Because of the time those fights consumed — and the eagerness of lawmakers to avoid tough votes in a charged partisan atmosphere — the Congressional spending and budget process completely collapsed this year for the first time in a quarter-century and Congress did not fulfill its most basic responsibility, allocating money to federal agencies.

Say what you will about coincidences, "Tom Bedlam" demonstrates that in the hands of a writer like George Hagen, they can help fiction fulfill its most basic responsibility: to make an impossibly large and dangerous world small enough to see whole.

The Trump Administration has already proposed defunding the E.P.A. by thirty-one per cent and cutting its staff by twenty per cent, raising questions about how it can fulfill its most basic responsibilities.

"That's like the most basic responsibility of government to go out and enforce its regulations".

It is time for us to carry out our most basic responsibility as citizens and vote for the presidential and congressional candidates of our choice and then hold those elected accountable to the people.

I despaired, convinced I had failed in my most basic responsibility.

And he has failed in the most basic responsibility of any steward, to plan for his succession.

"If we deny due process, we're failing in our most basic responsibility to uphold and defend the Constitution," he said.