Sentence examples for weaken responsibility from inspiring English sources

If acrasia is impossible, then every moral error involves a cognitive failure about the action or the principle that it violates, and cognitive errors negative (or at least weaken) responsibility for actions caused by those errors.

If it's deliberate, it appears to advocate a conscious loosening of ministerial respect for the rule of law and the UK's international treaty obligations, including weakening responsibility for the quality of justice here at home.

"By medicalizing key elements of our life through biotechnical interventions," the report says, "we may weaken our sense of responsibility and agency".

The dilution of the responsibility would weaken it out of existence" (Hare, 1981, 137).

Delegation does not reduce or weaken the official, final responsibility of the ICU director.

The stakes are simply too high to allow diffuse authorities and responsibilities to weaken accountability".

5 There is no legal responsibility for rich countries to help poorer ones with adapting to climate change The Paris agreement actually weakens the existing responsibility of rich countries to provide finance to poorer countries to help them adapt.

These things weaken individual initiative, discretion and responsibility.

The group will "not alter the current system of financial regulation, and will not replace or weaken the current division of responsibilities of the relevant agencies," the government announcement said.

"She's the person who ran the attempt to weaken Superfund and to reduce business responsibility to clean up its own mess".

They have managed to weaken our resolve and thus they share the responsibility for this mess.