Sentence examples for responsibility for curbing from inspiring English sources

Across Europe and America, subsidiary democracy is sharing in the responsibility for curbing public spending.

He has insisted that the international peacekeeping force in Kosovo take responsibility for curbing the activities of the Albanian militants, and has advocated a political solution.

Poorer nations have balked, arguing that industrialised nations that have polluted more historically bear more of the responsibility for curbing climate change.

In April, Cambodia's prime minister, Hun Sen, told provincial governors to take responsibility for curbing forestry crimes in their respective provinces, and criticised officials who blame each other when illegal logging is uncovered.

Yet even after adoption in 1970 of an international convention prohibiting the traffic in cultural property, few Western countries took measures to prevent the importation of archaeological or artistic treasures from Latin America, Africa and Asia, leaving the responsibility for curbing the traffic with the affected countries themselves.

But they are far from being the only offenders: most poor countries, too, are keen to palm the responsibility for curbing global warming off on rich ones, and to continue to grow and pollute as much as they like.The problem, of course, is that if everyone is counting on others to act, no one will, and the consequences could be much worse than if everyone had simply done their bit to begin with.

"All for curbing weapons of war.

There were also measures for curbing demand.

But for Curbed the hard times never came.

They then write personal essays reflecting on their responsibilities in curbing environmental impacts.

Clearly, doctors bear a responsibility to curb costs.