Sentence examples for shifted responsibilities from inspiring English sources

Barely six months into his tenure, Amy Chozick writes, the phone-hacking scandal became worldwide news, and Mr. Klein shifted responsibilities to become Rupert Murdoch's legal compass in the ensuing British firestorm.

These digital platforms have shifted responsibility to the artist.

A change in policy largely shifted responsibility for community noise measures to state and local governments in the early 1980s.

Additional embarrassment came in 2011, when the office decided against investigating Libor and shifted responsibility instead to the Financial Services Authority.

Trying to clarify things, a 2007 decree shifted responsibility for Abu Dhabi's agricultural sector to the Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority.

As a result, Congress in 2003 shifted responsibility for unaccompanied minors from immigration officials to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, part of Health and Human Services.

"The pill shifted responsibility and accountability for contraception onto women," said Kristin Luker, a sociology professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Moreover, blaming the jinn allowed the family to see the young woman's misbehavior as aberrant and shifted responsibility from her to a supernatural being.

Tells about deregulation, which occurred in 1978, when the C.A.B. shifted responsibility for determining routes and prices to the airlines themselves.

The marine assistance industry took off in 1983 after Congress shifted responsibility for nonemergency calls from the U.S. Coast Guard to the private sector.

In 2009 it slashed its dealer network, renegotiated its labor contracts and shifted responsibility for retiree health care to a union-controlled trust fund.