Sentence examples for properly responsible from inspiring English sources

The bill passed the Senate and the House, but was pocket vetoed by Truman on August 6, on the grounds that the administrative officers were not properly responsible to either the president or Congress.

One journalist called the scene "a classy ending to a TV classic" and the Sunday Times said that it was "brave" and "properly responsible" of the writers to end the series poignantly, especially when the episode aired close to Remembrance Day.

If convicted, they will have been publicly and properly held responsible for their wrongdoings.

"A properly functioning, responsible banking sector which moves away from its bonus-driven culture is vital for our economic growth," said Cable.

For decades, American political scientists have been saying that America needs a properly organised, "responsible" party system, based partly on economic interests, in order to have a proper debate about social equality.

Which government should properly be responsible - the producer, or the consumer?

j) Integration of governance concerns into assessment: This also follows from the definition given in section 1; namely that policy relevant concerns should be integrated into the assessments in order for assessments to properly inform responsible technology policy.

Many compatibilists hold, of course, that while our character may well be mostly unchosen or involuntarily acquired, we can, nevertheless, be properly held responsible only for what we do voluntarily.

Different luck egalitarian equality of opportunity theorists propose different conceptions of how to draw the line between circumstances to be equalized and choices for which individuals themselves are properly held responsible.

Diabetes, a disease in which the body fails to produce insulin or to process it properly, was responsible for $116 billion in direct medical costs in the U.S. in 2007.

The former hold that only individual agents or natural persons can be properly held responsible, while the latter hold that some collectives do count as subjects of responsibility (cf. Mathiesen 2006; Pettit 2007b; Hindriks 2009); depending on context and group size, there may be a number of tenable intermediate positions on this spectrum.