Sentence examples for owning the problem from inspiring English sources
Look at Iraq, they say: whenever America clumsily breaks a country, it ends up "owning" the problem.
Still, one legislator recently said Utahns should be better at "owning the problem", and that is a message many do not want to hear.Two-thirds of Utahns want to see tighter curbs on industrial polluters, such as a Rio Tinto copper mine and five oil refineries.
Once mired, the fear is that any US Administration would then be tagged as "owning the problem" and thus responsible until resolution.
The problem evidenced by the debt ceiling debate, however, is that for all of the debate and sense of urgency, there appears to be almost no willingness in Congress to taking the next step: Owning the problem, and doing something about it.
Congress has to own the problem, too.
Nothing will happen until the President owns the problem.
"I found the problem, I owned the problem and I got the problem fixed very quickly," she said.
We don't own the problem — it was created by the previous Administration.
By Jane Mayer "We don't own the problem," Greg Craig, the White House counsel, says.
Everyone owns the problem and has a stake in cleaning it up".
"No one owns the problem," says K10's chief executive, Andrew Purvis.
