Sentence examples for to avert responsibility from inspiring English sources

The feeling of horror when we learn that we have been misled and as a result have put our children in harm's way in the Middle East can no longer be ignored or spun or whatever else the Bush administration is trying to do to avert responsibility.

Yet there's nothing new about companies averting responsibility for their workforce by shifting formal employment to subcontractors or calling workers independent contractors.

"The state, individuals and employers all share in the responsibility to avert such a crisis," he said.

The two devolved governments jointly drafted the amendments in a bid to avert what they term a "power grab" over their responsibilities.

The world during those years was ridden by an all-pervasive feeling of guilt and by a fear of impending disaster which it seemed hopeless to try to avert because it never seemed conclusively possible to pin down the responsibility.

These two insisted that the intervention in Libya had been justified to avert a massacre in Benghazi and also talked up the doctrine of responsibility to protect citizens from their own governments.

But we may at least be able to avert strategic defeat with a careful plan for gradual handoff of more responsibility to the Iraqi government over the coming years.

Because of their behavior, they have a double responsibility to act promptly in a mature and nonpartisan fashion to avert the destruction of our financial system.

The UNHCR said it "urges Greece and the states along the Balkans route to act quickly to avert a disaster and to approach this emergency in a spirit of solidarity and sharing of responsibility".

By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create a communal sense of responsibility and courage to spur citizens and their leaders to take the difficult actions necessary to avert such a fate.

UNICEF's responsibility, by and large, involves the dissemination of information about the potential pandemic, and actions to avert its spread, through schools.