Example sentences of "[verb] responsibility for the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The feeling at directorial level is that while the board accepts responsibility for the running of the club it is entitled to quiz Brady if a problem has been identified with regard to team matters . |
| 32 | It is reassuring to know that his duties will include responsibility for the BBC , for as George Walden argues on this page , it was he who rescued the Broadcasting Bill after the last Thatcher government made such a hash of television deregulation . |
| 33 | Dahl retained responsibility for the environment while the energy portfolio went to Rune Molin , vice-president of the Trade Union Confederation ( LO ) , who also took over the industry portfolio from Ivar Nordberg . |
| 34 | In a move meeting with approval from the financial markets Pierre Bérégovoy retained responsibility for the economy , finance and budget ; reflecting Cresson 's commitment to industrial regeneration , his responsibilities were expanded [ see attachments of Ministers-Delegate ] . |
| 35 | It would have included responsibility for the finance , organization and administration of the Magistrates ' courts , and for criminal legal aid . |
| 36 | Although no one had claimed responsibility for the attack by last night , it was apparently being treated as a terrorist incident by the Belgian police . |
| 37 | The Irish National Liberation Army has claimed responsibility for the shooting . |
| 38 | One of the men , Declan Derek Duffy , 19 , known as ‘ Wacko , ’ has tattooed on his left hand the initials INLA — standing for Irish National Liberation Army which has claimed responsibility for the murder of Sgt Michael Newman , 34 . |
| 39 | Indeed , I understand that the Ping Tiao have claimed responsibility for the act . ’ |
| 40 | However , a PFLP-GC statement broadcast by Al-Quds on Feb. 7 pointed out that it had never claimed responsibility for the attack . |
| 41 | The Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front ( FPMR-A ) also claimed responsibility for the attack , describing it as an act of " popular justice " . |
| 42 | No group had claimed responsibility for the kidnappings but a statement issued by the Palestinian Revolutionary Factions ( PRF , a group believed to have links with the radical Fatah Revolutionary Council or " Fatah rebels " ) on Aug. 7 claimed that Christen and Erriquez would be released within 24 hours . |
| 43 | The Soldiers for Justice group had already claimed responsibility for the murder in March 1989 of the head of the Moslem community in Belgium [ see p. 36538 ] , and for the 1988 kidnapping in Lebanon of a Belgian doctor , Jan Cools , who was freed on June 15 , 1989 [ see pp. 36365 ; 37164 ] . |
| 44 | He had publicly claimed responsibility for the theft of arms and ammunition from the South African Air Force headquarters in April and for bomb attacks on offices of the National Party . |
| 45 | The unit had claimed responsibility for the assassination of over 300 troops , policemen and government officials since 1984 . |
| 46 | Two groups of the extreme left — the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front ( FPMR ) and the Mapu Latero — were reported to have claimed responsibility for the murder . |
| 47 | The left-wing Dev Sol group was reported to have claimed responsibility for the fatal wounding in the southern city of Adana on May 23 of Brig. -Gen . |
| 48 | The IRA also claimed responsibility for the killing of two civilians on Jan. 14 and 15 ( in the latter case a Catholic who , the IRA later admitted , had been shot " in error " ) . |
| 49 | The Turkish Foreign Ministry said that the previously unknown Islamic Revenge Organization ( IRO ) had claimed responsibility for the killing in Ankara on March 7 of Ehud Saha , the security chief at the Israeli embassy there . |
| 50 | The Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) later claimed responsibility for the attack , the first to cause civilian deaths on the mainland since February 1991 [ see pp. 38019-20 ] . |
| 51 | The IRA has claimed responsibility for the car bomb which exploded near Downing Street this morning . |
| 52 | So far no one has claimed responsibility for the bombs but an Animal Liberation Front supporter passing the Minister Lovell incident denied any knowledge . |
| 53 | The UFF has claimed responsibility for the killing early today of father-of-six Michael Edwards , at his Finaghy home , while an IRA van bomb devastated the centre of Armagh . |
| 54 | The outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters later claimed responsibility for the shooting . |
| 55 | No one has claimed responsibility for the Bombay blasts . |
| 56 | • Asked about rumours of his apparently imminent move from his position as managing director of Lotus , Michael Kimberley suggested we ask GM Europe president Bob Eaton , who has responsibility for the sports car maker . |
| 57 | The Treasury has responsibility for the health of the economy ; the Social Services Department has responsibility for some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the country . |
| 58 | I have a real difficulty in locating who has responsibility for the dustbins . ’ |
| 59 | It is also confusing to the inhabitants in that it is often difficult to ascertain which council has responsibility for the particular matter which concerns them . |
| 60 | So the governing body has responsibility for the ethos of the school , for deciding what kind of school it is to be . |