Sentence examples for notion of responsibility from inspiring English sources

Obama presented a two-sided notion of responsibility: individuals were responsible for themselves, their family and community, but society also had a responsibility to provide the perquisites of humanity such as education, a social safety net, meaningful work and civil rights.

But our everyday notion of responsibility certainly does not and could not entail being ultimately responsible in this way.

Looking at what distinguishes female from male shoppers, for instance, he zeroes in on the the notion of responsibility.

But for both candidates, the notion of "responsibility" goes beyond strengthening Social Security, which they would do by different means.

There is an element of slapstick in this punishment, as well as a severe and uncompromising notion of responsibility.

And in a strange mirror image, secularists are perfectly capable of dissolving any notion of responsibility in an invocation of ancient, even pre-human patterns of behavior.

This rings especially true in light of Mr. Gore's rigorous upbringing, a childhood in which adult notions of responsibility were constantly reinforced by his hard-working parents.

But what this coming-of-age story really deals with are big notions of responsibility, consequence, love and the idea that there are no fundamentally right decisions, just one's that we can live with.

Recognising that human actions, like all other events in the natural world, had deterministic, physical causes we would see that notions of responsibility, guilt and blame were, at best, fictions.

Consequently, we are reluctant to abandon notions of responsibility and desert, and religious systems which, we believe, maintain social order – even if, like Edward Gibbon, we believe they are "considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful".

But many others focus on backward-looking notions of responsibility that stress accountability, blameworthiness or liability.