Sentence examples for shed responsibilities from inspiring English sources

"Many people in Westchester have large homes that aren't designed for aging in place," said William G. Balter, a principal in Wilder Balter Partners of Elmsford, explaining that the 50-something crowd often wants to shed responsibilities.

Yet it shed responsibility for some 700 employees.

First, Israel would shed responsibility for the Palestinian population while retaining strategic control of the territory.

The workers do not object in principle, but fear that the contractors are trying to shed responsibility for laid-off and retired employees.

The health secretary Jeremy Hunt has also pointed to Labour's 2004 decision to let GPs shed responsibility for providing care out of hours.

Leaders beget followers; people pin their hopes on one person, and with that they seem to shed responsibility for anything beyond getting that one person into office.

It has helped to make the case for the demolition of hundreds of similar complexes around the world, aiding in the fortunes of postmodern housing design, as well as allowing municipalities to shed responsibility for social housing initiatives costly to maintain.

President Barack Obama over the weekend seized on Romney's attempt to shed responsibility for the company he officially ran, arguing that a U.S. president doesn't have the luxury of picking and choosing when he's responsible for what happens on his watch.

His latest bookCitizens DisUnited: the Corporate Capture of the American Dream examines the corporate takeover of the United States and explains, in detail, how corporations seized more and more power while shedding responsibility to their country, their customers, their workers, and their shareholders.

It will start to shed some responsibilities: indeed it is already starting to do so.

Time Warner and Tribune might have sold their print divisions – both were on the block – and shed their responsibilities and recovered their interests that way.