Sentence examples for turning responsibility from inspiring English sources

Training Iraqi security forces and turning responsibility over to them makes sense if the Americans are trying to buttress an embattled government against insurgents; but, as sectarian violence rises, with the police and the Army dominated by one group, the Americans could also be arming one side of an approaching civil war.

Mr. Perry, perhaps the most opaque so far on foreign policy, said during the CNN/Tea Party debate that the United States should continue to have a "presence" in Afghanistan, but that it was time to start turning responsibility for the country over to the Afghans.

Senior senators are pushing plans to turn responsibility for airport security -- now controlled by the airlines and the airports -- over to the federal government.

Afghanistan is now in transition mode as the United States and its NATO allies turn responsibility for the country's security over to the Afghans, with the goal of completing the process by the end of 2014.

For Mr. Obama, the issue has particular resonance in part because he has sought to turn responsibility for good governance in Africa to African institutions even as he has held many African leaders at a distance.

But as the group concluded a two-day meeting here, it dissolved itself and turned responsibility over to a streamlined "consultative group" based in Kabul and led by the Afghan finance minister, Ashraf Ghani.

One concern raised by Mr. Maliki in the meetings with Parliament, lawmakers said, was that the Americans have released thousands of prisoners as they prepare to withdraw and turn responsibility for detainees over to the Iraqis.

In the last decade, California has closed 8 of its 11 juvenile facilities and successfully turned responsibility for holding and treating nonviolent offenders over to the counties, where they can have more contact with their families and their chances for a smooth reintegration after release are higher.

He believed that the troop increase would lead only to a more violent stalemate and sought out others in the administration to assist him in convincing the President to reverse the escalation, to cap force levels at 550,000 men, to seek negotiations with Hanoi, and turn responsibility for the fighting over to the South Vietnamese.

Yet when things turn sour, responsibilities are in fact often shared.

But turning over responsibility to pro-Russia Chechens is not so easily done.