On Monday, the White House effectively put responsibility for Mr. Snowden's departure on Beijing, not on the Hong Kong authorities.
How convenient to put responsibility for the poisoning of public discourse by conservative extremists on the Democrats.
In most cases, leases put responsibility for capital costs like boilers and air-conditioners on owners and responsibility for operating costs like oil and electric bills on tenants.
The bills being debated in Congress would put responsibility for managing systemic financial risks in the hands of a council of regulators.
"Now, the action of our deputies, I take responsibility for that, but we also have to put responsibility on her for disrupting that school, disrupting that class and causing this incident to start from the very beginning," he said.
Ms. Damanaki said the introduction of tradable fishing rights, which would be imposed at the national rather than the European Union level, would put responsibility for safeguarding fish stocks with the industry and help reduce overcapacity.
We need to put responsibility where it lies: on men who violate women, and on all of us who let them get away with it while we point accusing fingers at their victims.
In the longer term, though, it would put responsibility for funding company pension schemes back where it belongs: with companies first, and with the state only as a last resort.
"Sometimes you've got to turn around and look at people and put responsibility on them.
