Sentence examples for responsibility fault from inspiring English sources

He is also insistent that if there were no such freedom and self-determination, there could be no responsibility (fault, merit, etc)., and no sense or content to any ought (normativity) such as ethics is concerned with.

Basic ideas have changed little, other than the fact that some modern statutes have imposed responsibility without fault and that corporations can now be held responsible for the acts of their management.

I know this is my responsibility, my fault.

It is, in some ways, as vivid a demonstration as there is of shirking responsibility and fault — of being a weasel.

The report stated it did not "represent the legal position of Transocean, nor does it attempt to assign legal responsibility or fault," a statement that was greeted with seeming incredulity by a spokesman for BP.

Of course, in a transit system in which more than 25,000 employees ensure that more than 5,000 train cars carry more than 4 million riders through 468 stations along more than 700 miles of track every day of the year, it is very hard to speak precisely of responsibility and fault.

He told his party: "We know more certainly than ever before that there is a strong progressive majority in Britain, I wish more than I can possibly say that I could mobilise that majority, but I could not – I have to accept and to assert personal responsibility the fault is mine, and I will carry that alone.

"It is my responsibility, my fault.

The idea of risk, and the mechanisms of risk management through insurance, have the effect to disconnect responsibility from fault, making indemnisation independent from liability.

Their tactic is to project responsibility or fault onto their partner.

In short, while blaming/forgiving involves one's relationship with others and with concepts of responsibility and fault (Table 6, above), the word pair stuck/letting go was more oriented toward one's inner struggle and acceptance (Table 7).