Sentence examples for voluntary responsibility from inspiring English sources

He cut taxes and expanded public works spending, although he intended to keep the Federal budget balanced and considered welfare to be primarily a local and voluntary responsibility.

But, she says, though many food producers may be willing in principle, in reality they are loth to sign up to a voluntary "responsibility deal" on calorie reduction introduced in 2012 by Andrew Lansley, the Conservative former health secretary, because it could damage their market position.

The commitment is part of the voluntary "responsibility deal" between industry and government - but experts have criticised the approach.

Morrisons, Subway and Nestle are among firms signed up to the voluntary "responsibility deal" between industry and government.

The commitment is part of the voluntary "responsibility deal" between industry and government, with supermarket chain Morrisons, Subway and Nestle among the companies which have signed up.

Tam Fry of the National Obesity Forum, also called for regulation, adding: "The much-vaunted voluntary responsibility deal will never succeed until the government takes a grip and makes everybody sign up to it".

There is also a risk with integrated approaches of employers confusing mandatory and voluntary responsibilities.

It has taken out advertising in the US student press and signed up to the UN Global Compact in March - the world's largest voluntary corporate responsibility initiative.

As with all voluntary corporate responsibility initiatives, the Global Compact is open to charges that it slows progress towards mandatory measures by giving the impression that laws on corporate accountability and reporting are not needed.

(3) The value of information on new product demands contained in WEEE should be exploited to build up a new business model with a positive supply chain for product manufacturing and consumption that closely corresponds to a reverse supply chain for WEEE recovery and utilization to accelerate the formation of voluntary producer responsibility.

The workshop included presentations from both advocates and skeptics of voluntary corporate responsibility measures.