Sentence examples for took direct responsibility from inspiring English sources

I told him to hold off his troops, and took direct responsibility for Mr. Khan's capture.

In a statement read by a spokesman, the Tunis-based rebel regime took direct responsibility for organizing the demonstration.

As the head of Ohio State, he took "direct responsibility" for the scandal; he hired the key members of the athletic department, he set the expectations.

Husband to Doris Sullivan and father to Barbara Weaver, Robert J. Mahony, Michael P. Mahony, Maureen Casper, and Mary Jo Flynn, he was most proud of the 42 children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren that he took direct responsibility for producing.

The president took "direct responsibility" for the fact that "people across America aren't feeling" economic progress.

"He will avoid taking direct responsibility".

They have taken direct responsibility to fully inform themselves on what's been happening in Virunga.

Brokers like Scottrade have almost universally declined to take direct responsibility for the losses their customers suffered.

This probably explains why he was always careful to avoid taking direct responsibility for the genocide, and never signed an order.

So far, Japan's central government has taken direct responsibility for decontaminating areas within 20km of the plant and those where yearly exposure could exceed 20 mSv.

By not having to take direct responsibility for his anti-Kerry spot, Mr. Bush got some distance from it -- even though it is on his Web site.