Sentence examples for remove the onus from inspiring English sources
It's a natural, defensive gesture to say, "Wait, we're not all like that!" But such protests conveniently remove the onus of confronting difficult truths and lobbying for change.
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.
The data processing components in the pipeline aim to remove the onus on ad hoc processing and aggregation routines on raw data.
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.
They are capable of removing the onus from individual schools by making sensitive decisions at a slight distance, taking the emotion out of a situation that should be decided dispassionately and with the interests of the maximum number of children at heart.
Cosmic censorship and veiled non-locality provide a prop for materialism, because it can be taken as axiomatic that some aspects of reality will never be observable; this removes the onus for finding data that support the emergence of consciousness.
At a press conference in Canberra, Leyonhjelm confirmed that the government had agreed to remove the reverse onus of proof in the ABCC bill, which would have required employees and unions to prove they took action because of a reasonable concern about an imminent safety concern, rather than to coerce employers.
Leyonhjelm has reached an agreement with the government on the ABCC that includes removing the reverse onus of proof for intent in coercion, discrimination and unlawful picketing claims.
An Oxford student, Jack May, has started an online petition to remove the poster, branding it "a blatant and appalling case of victim-blaming by our own government, putting the onus on the victim rather than the perpetrator".
The onus is on copyright holders to alert a service to the nature and location of an infringement, and the service's responsibility is to alert the user if possible and remove the material within a reasonable period of time.
