The responsibility for providing safe, secure, good-quality housing is beyond the means of local authorities.
The responsibility for providing something better now falls to the Democratic leadership, in particular Tom Daschle.
That might sound daunting for commissioners who will suddenly have responsibility for providing independent advocacy services.
Parents try to protect teens from hunger and from bearing responsibility for providing for themselves or others.
The date of the Clinton-Powell email exchange raises questions over Powell's recent denial of responsibility for providing her advice.
The federal/state divide has caused increased opacity in exactly who has responsibility for providing homeless and domestic violence services.
"In a rather arbitrary way, what the coalition is doing is simply withdrawing from the responsibility for providing particular services.
The government accepted responsibility for providing free primary education for a length of time fixed provisionally at five years.
The county councils (and the local authority in the case of Gotland) are responsibility for providing health services.
Soon it would hand off responsibility for providing air support in Afghanistan to another carrier steaming its way.
FDR's New Deal broke with the past in a number of ways: for the first time in American history, the federal government assumed responsibility for providing jobs.
