Sentence examples for responsibility referring from inspiring English sources

In philosophical parlance, this is the normative question of social responsibility, referring to what we should do — not necessarily what we are motivated to do for self-realization or economic necessity.

Just a week after the Liberal Democrats became the focus of discontent over their broken election pledge on tuition fee rises, Miliband told Cameron that it was time that "the front end" of the pantomime horse "took some responsibility", referring to the Lib Dem deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, as the "back end".

Now to see that there's a change coming from a major sports enterprise, I was very pleased that the commissioner was taking responsibility". Referring to the Rice case, Goodell said: "I take responsibility both for the decision and for ensuring that our actions in the future properly reflect our values.

He said that the fight against AIDS is everybody's responsibility, referring to the message of World AIDS Day for 2005.

At one level, responsibility refers to accountability, as in being responsible for actions taken.

Diffusion of responsibility refers to the fact that as the number of bystanders increases, the personal responsibility that an individual bystander feels decreases.

The Republican former senator, a co-chair of Barack Obama's commission on fiscal responsibility, referred to "lesser people" in an interview.

Yes, Isis's official statement of responsibility referred to Paris as "the capital of prostitution and obscenity", but it also singled out the French government for leading a "Crusader campaign" and "striking the Muslims … with their planes".

The fact that the importer has made a claim or submitted a certification based on information provided by an exporter or producer will not relieve the importer of the responsibility referred to in paragraph (a) of this section.

(The other mentions of responsibility refer to devolution of powers to Scotland and Wales). The manifesto refers to "accountability" only twice in 84 pages: it takes credit for more accountability on the "frontline" of healthcare, and admits that schools need more accountability, but would not change the existing authorities.

Modal responsibility refers to the responsibility assigned to participants, e.g. 'we're going to'.