Sentence examples for onus from from inspiring English sources

The intent was to shift the moral onus from the perpetrator to the victim.

The advent of 401(k) plans shifted the investing onus from corporate managers to often unsophisticated employees.

In early March, Lovett-Murray got a call from Meriki Onus from the Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance.

Trying to remove the onus from Congress, he developed the theory of popular sovereignty (originally called squatter sovereignty), under which the people in a territory would themselves decide whether to permit slavery within their region's boundaries.

Joshua Schiller, a lawyer for Mr. Prince, said he was grateful for the court's decision, which he said removed the onus from artists for defending their work as transformative under copyright law.

It shifts the onus from Labour – "what would you cut then?" – to the Tories: "How will you stimulate the economy?" It changes the dominant metaphor governing the debate about the economy.

In so doing, the onus shifts from the writer to the performer.

Well, good job - that view effectively places the onus away from establishment politics and now we've gotten ourselves Trumpian disestablishment politics to swallow for four long years.

For some, this meant making their donation wishes known to family members in order to take: "The emotive onus away from your relatives".

In the Administration's plan, the words would deceive the civil-rights workers, and the actions would deceive the Southern segregationists, and in the process the political onus for integration would shift from the executive branch of the government to the legislative and judicial branches.

In a world in which you can build anything, the onus for entrepreneurs has shifted from figuring out if you can build something to understanding whether it's worth building it in the first place.