'slight responsibility' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to indicate that one has a minor amount of responsibility for something. For example: "I accepted only a slight responsibility to help my neighbor with their project because of my other commitments."
But just a 10-minute drive north are the Ettersburg hills and the site of the Buchenwald concentration camp, a monument not only to the bestiality of the Nazis but to the refusal of the former East Germany to admit the slightest responsibility.
Her judgment on Eichmann's role in the Holocaust was captured in her book's subtitle and its final words — "the banality of evil". Watching the trial, she concluded that Eichmann was the epitome of the "good German" — an unthinking (and poorly educated) bureaucrat who did his duty and obeyed the law without taking even the slightest responsibility for his actions.
Every day, for four hours a day, Glenn Beck is playing out a Welles fantasy -- leaping out from behind an array of Carrot Top-meets-Gallagher props and gizmos while shouting BOO! at his audience without taking the slightest responsibility for the ensuing hysteria.
The report concluded that it was difficult to find anyone in the commission with "the slightest sense of responsibility" for financial control.
"No information may be withheld from other institutions, such as parliament". "It is becoming difficult to find anyone who has even the slightest sense of responsibility," it said of the commission's staff.
The main commentary of Thursday's edition of the center-right daily Kathimerini began: "If our political leaders had the slightest sense of responsibility, they would have kept their mouths shut".
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One might say that the only reason that these companies feel even the slightest shred of responsibility is because of the PR benefits.
And as you watch, think of how differently things might have gone--for our country--had the CDC officials being berated shown the slightest dignity or responsibility, and shouted back.
Children have no agency, not even the slightest shred of the responsibility or complicity that adults to one degree or another may possess.
