Sentence examples for off the responsibility from inspiring English sources

In this case, it is simply risible to push off the responsibility for the invasion of Green's home and offices by anti-terrorist officers on to the police and nameless "officials".

Although everyone agreed that better communication was crucial, both sides tried to shrug off the responsibility.

I got a meeting with their office manager, and she seemed incredibly relieved to hand off the responsibility.

Osofsky's statements hand off the responsibility for policing content on Facebook to its users, although he acknowledged the company can do better at moderation.

Both co-founders say that they drink minimally in their free time and the two even built a robotic pourer to pass off the responsibility of making drinks.

The very spectacle of an "intentionally homeless" young family resisting eviction is emblematic of the legal contortions local authorities undertake in order to shrug off the responsibility to provide housing, and ease the pressure on their dwindling housing stock.

Too often China wants the power due a global giant while shrugging off the responsibilities, saying that it is still a poor country.

His strategy for living is to hoard the pleasures of the moment, to turn life into a perpetual Saturday night in a barroom and a bedroom and fend off the responsibilities of Sunday morning.

His sexual reawakening through meeting Angela is the first of several turning points as he begins to "[throw] off the responsibilities of the comfortable life he has come to despise".

Ruth soon realized that Fuchs had deceived him, and had no intention of giving him off-the-field responsibility or the manager's job.

In that case, where does the right of conscience leave off and the responsibility of Catholic institutions to provide women with medically appropriate care begin?