Each time a public service is sacrificed, it seems that the government and others assume teachers can shoulder the consequences.
Another calls for corporations and the business sector to "shoulder the consequences of their profit-making activities and to take a visibly more active role in reducing their carbon footprint and other forms of impact upon the natural environment".
Reform would reduce payments to a constituency that recycles settlement money into political contributions: the trial lawyers.Certainly, companies must take responsibility for disclosing the known potential hazards of the products they produce, and for shouldering the consequences when they do not.
The PhD student ends up shouldering the consequences; it is (before now) unusual for the professor to be mentioned in relation to the PhD student's unsuccessful completion of the thesis within the contract period.
When it comes to climate change, with rising sea levels, prolonged droughts and intensified storms, those least responsible for this unfolding environmental disaster are shouldering the consequences of climate change.
FOR all the high-minded justifications that led to Europe's military intervention in Libya, there has been little political willingness to shoulder the humanitarian consequences of the war.
If outlet impingement syndrome of the shoulder were responsible for the restrictions in the mobility of the thoracic spine it might be expected that with increasing severity of the shoulder condition the consequences for the thoracic spine would become increasingly clear.
And as for giving a senior job to Holger Härter, Porsche's once-feted chief financial officer well, the joint-architect with Mr Wiedeking of the attempt to win control of VW must now shoulder the blame for the consequences of its failure.More than two years in the making, the two men's bold plan unravelled in a matter of weeks.
With respect to the allegation that the Israeli public is to blame for re-electing this man, one would respond that demagogues know how to pull emotional triggers, and while the Israeli public cannot be exempted from responsibility, neither should they shoulder all of the consequences of being so manipulated.
Actions or lack thereof have consequences and those who are asked to shoulder the burden of those consequences all too often are the most vulnerable in society.
It ends up placing the consequence of pain and suffering squarely on the shoulders of the fragile.
