We also miss the mark and resist responsibility.
'I'd do a story with a twist in the end.'" Finally, Kate's is a rather predictable tale about an imaginative young woman resisting adult responsibility.
However, more fundamentally, many participants also described a tendency for mothers to be held responsible, and for fathers to resist accepting responsibility, for negative events in their children, where lapses in the mother's care were not identified or suspected.
Speaking at length to reporters, Obama resisted taking responsibility for the outcome, in contrast to his response to the last midterm elections in 2010, when he admitted his party suffered a "shellacking".
For years, banks resisted taking responsibility for the crisis, squandering the opportunity to rebuild trust in their brands and to move forward with a clean slate, putting fines, sky-high legal bills and other crisis legacies behind it.
Though he's clearly close with his nephew, a series of flashbacks that shatter the formal calm of the small-town afternoon with the recollection of utter devastation, irreparable loss, and a cosmic burden of self-loathing shows why Lee resists the responsibility.
The BBC fiercely resisted taking responsibility for the cost, saying it was an open-ended drain on BBC resources, but this morning succumbed to demands that it take on the cost of the BBC World Service and the Welsh language channel S4C from 2015.
As Max Weber put it in "Politics as a Vocation", in governing, there is a difference between an "ethic of responsibility", resisting aggression, and an "ethic of ultimate ends", which uses power, especially violence, to attain a political goal.
The beauty of the framing device is that it assumes change is possible, and that we ourselves have to take responsibility for resisting the erosion of individual liberty.
The ethics of shopping are complex; research has shown that in terms of family shopping, most women see their main responsibility as resisting temptation and being prudent in their choices.
