Sentence examples for weakening responsibility from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Ecuador is obviously responsible for its own fiscal improvidence, but the U.S. bears some responsibility in weakening democracy there.

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.

Not long after weakening into a depression, the storm entered the CPHC's area of responsibility.

In 45 bc Julius Caesar increased the number to 40, but the emperor Augustus returned it to 20 and weakened the powers and responsibility of the office.

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

Other members of Parliament highlighted fears that her job would be weakened if, as expected, responsibility for the budget devoted to nations neighboring the E.U. fell not to her but to the commissioner for enlargement.

As a result, managerial responsibility was weakened, and expertise in accounting and change management decreased.

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

As she weakened, he assumed more responsibility.