Sentence examples for legitimate responsibility from inspiring English sources

And they typically consider intervention at the national or regional levels to be their only legitimate responsibility.

To place that burden on religious institutions is, as Dilulio said, "to abdicate the legitimate responsibility of government".

Those who disagree maintain that government has a legitimate responsibility to protect life and restrict medical professionals and others from participating in actions to shorten a patient's life.

Over the decades, rival interests — the government's legitimate responsibility to keep some things secret, the press's constitutional freedom to ferret out information and report it — have coexisted through informal understandings.

- Lack of clarity on the part of parents and guardians as to where the boundary lies between their legitimate responsibility to form and rear a child, and actions that constitute forms of child abuse.

And without passing judgment on the merits of the case, the government does have legitimate responsibilities: to seek to protect the public from monopolies, or from price gouging, or from invasions of privacy.

After an elapse of many years, and a few not quite legitimate votes, responsibility for the cemetery is handed over from the council to a private construction firm, which plans to level the site and build apartments on it.

It is a legitimate, streetwise response to a serious abdication of responsibility by the government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and his Partido Popular, or Popular Party.

The Taliban, which last year named employees of Tolo and 1TV, another major private broadcaster, as legitimate targets, claimed responsibility for the bombing.

Bernardi told Guardian Australia the expense was legitimate because politicians' responsibilities were "broad-ranging".

Nobody wants to get hurt, everybody wants to get home from their job everyday without suffering great bodily injury or worse, so it's important for outsiders and insiders to recognize that officer safety is a legitimate and very important responsibility of executive leadership, and middle management, and first-line supervisors; indeed, it's a responsibility of peers.