When board members embrace their responsibility, commit to engage productively, and contribute generously, then they can accomplish great things in achieving the mission and the organization's greater potential.
A man at the meeting on June 28th suggested that the board take responsibility by committing seppuku, or ritual suicide.Not everything went wrong for TEPCO.
It is an illuminating aside that our social conventions dictate that those at the top of the ladder should take responsibility by committing career hara-kiri.
President Bush can help restore trust in this important presidential responsibility by committing himself to abide by the traditional process of Justice Department review before a pardon is granted.
Mr. Maguire's lawyer, Richard Willstatter, said his client, a captain in the United States Air Force, had been serving in Afghanistan but had voluntarily returned to "accept responsibility for committing a crime".
Allowing the Sudanese government to avoid justice for its deplorable human rights record sends the wrong message to the world and gives comfort to regimes looking to deny responsibility for committing both past and current crimes against humanity.
Diminished responsibility, legal doctrine that absolves an accused person of part of the liability for his criminal act if he suffers from such abnormality of mind as to substantially impair his responsibility in committing or being a party to an alleged violation.
Is it the employee's responsibility to make every concession for the company — or does a company bear a responsibility to commit to an employee, even if that means letting them take some time off to give birth.
It is a broader reluctance to engage, to assert responsibility, to commit.
Sarah Ludford, who sits on the committee and is the Liberal Democrats' Brexit spokeswoman in the Lords, added: "The government has a clear moral as well as economic responsibility to commit now to guaranteeing the rights of all EU nationals living in the UK.
-DONALD LAMBRO, for the Heritage Foundation Think About It SOME PEOPLE WOULD SAY that employers have a social responsibility to commit themselves to providing more assured employment.
