Sentence examples for portion of the responsibility from inspiring English sources

And the Crown Prosecution Service was forced to admit that its own prosecutor acted "inappropriately" when he placed a portion of the responsibility upon the victim in court.

The White House troika of Mr. Rove, Andrew Card, the chief of staff, and Karen Hughes, a counselor to the president, must take a major portion of the blame for the defection and must assume a major portion of the responsibility for getting Mr. Bush back to the center.

Indeed, one of his strongest objections to the welfare state is that it turned over to government bureaucracies "a large portion of the responsibility for feeding the hungry, succoring the sick, comforting the sad, nurturing the children, tending the elderly, and chastising the sinners".

When the hornets buzz and sting, the stick wielder bears a portion of the responsibility.

Outsourcing a significant portion of the responsibilities of in-house staff should be accompanied by an explanation.

The 26-year-old has netted nine times during this campaign, one which has seen Rooney take a large portion of the goalscoring responsibility.

A large portion of the initial responsibility for finding the home will also fall to you.

Acknowledging the West's own portion of responsibility in the process of radicalization is critical.

I believe that most Americans would feel a bit more positive about a party that put the well-being of the country and all its citizens ahead of its concerns about regaining power, particularly when a significant portion of responsibility for the existence of these problems may be laid at the doorstep of said party.

And other times he recognizes the tenuous moral position he is in, and tries to talk his way out of it: "I'm willing to absorb only the smallest portion of blame or responsibility for the current scourge of talking-to-the-dead cons," Mr. Edward writes.

Nassau's property taxes are crushingly high, but the county portion of the bill, Mr. Suozzi's responsibility, is only about 16percentt.