Sentence examples for was somebody's problem from inspiring English sources

As if they already knew it was somebody's problem.

"For too long too many people in Canada said, 'Oh you know it's not going to happen here, it's somebody's else's problem.' The factors that contribute to radicalised youth are the same that contributed to a person being attracted to a gang lifestyle or any kind of criminality, and that is they don't fit in.

But that was somebody else's problem.

They thanked their lucky stars that eastern Europe was somebody else's problem.

"She was somebody else's problem now," he is quoted as saying in the statement.

Whether the deal made money, or even made sense, was somebody else's problem, he said.

Tyranny was overthrown, democracy was restored, Bush had justified a military invasion ("Just Cause") as a law-enforcement operation, and Noriega was somebody else's problem.

Richmond is more than 100 miles south of Washington, and many people here said they had thought the sniper was somebody else's problem.

Still, during the economic expansion of the half-century after World War II, poverty, at least so it seemed, was somebody else's problem — and that someone was perceived as urban and non-white.

"But Tiffany says to me, 'I don't know if I want to play somebody's girlfriend before I'm somebody's girlfriend in real life.' " A problem, to be sure, but Tiffany has weightier concerns.

I think a lot of people are thinking, well, that's somebody else's problem, that's not my problem.