Sentence examples for vague responsibility from inspiring English sources

First, there is normally an acknowledgement that the chief minister of Gujarat bears some vague responsibility for the orgy of killing and rape that engulfed his state in 2002 – but, um, wasn't that all a long time ago?

There was mention of the fact that the CCGs do "have this vague responsibility for quality [improvement] in general practice, whatever that's supposed to mean" (CCG3).

17 HEIs defined responsibilities while 14 HEIs were vague regarding responsibility for action.

Having reviewed hundreds of books over the past 20-some years, I no longer subscribe to the notion that I have a vague journalistic responsibility to keep a copy of every title I have ever written about.

Corporate chief executives are obligated by their corporate charters to do their best to benefit their shareholders, with only a vague implied responsibility to take public interests into account.

The Constitution, adopted after one of the military's coups in 1980, assigns the army to intervene in politics to defend of the republic, a vaguely defined responsibility that has until now been read as granting the military unconditional immunity.

She eventually accepted after a bidding war that doubled her salary, becoming the magazine's first creative director, a position with vaguely defined responsibilities.

Most past events had a thousand sources and causes -- a vague diffusion of responsibility that made no one responsible.

(Sam's blue suit and blue fedora and vague sense of responsibility mark him as a shamus; Max's major contribution is a complete willingness to throw himself into harm's way.

As for what should succeed the MDGs, he agrees with many commentators on the need to address inequality; a strengthening of MDG eight, which was vague on the responsibilities of rich countries; consolidating health, which is scattered across MDGs; and fleshing out MDG three on gender equality.

In relation to the implementation of task shifting, it has been had argued that: "informal task shifting which happens as an ad hoc response to need rather than as an explicit policy strategy, may result in the proliferation of new cadres with vague or overlapping responsibilities, which are then questioned by the existing staff, policy makers and the patients themselves" [ 5].