Example sentences of "responsibility for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the responsibility for the resultant problem can not be blamed solely on an overbearing parent ; there is also a marriage partner who is failing to stand firm on biblical priorities at the expense of his or her partner . |
| 2 | In 1986 the International Whaling Commission , which has responsibility for the baleen whales , declared a moratorium on commercial whaling of the 11 great whales so that stock could be assessed . |
| 3 | As a Director of P&O Developments , he will have responsibility for the Continental European property development and investment portfolio . |
| 4 | Like the head , he saw the lack of a librarian as a serious deficiency and gave priority to the securing of someone to " manage " the library ( and assume responsibility for the part-time assistant ) . |
| 5 | The rural district council relied on the assumption of responsibility by the corporation in 1945 , while the corporation denied responsibility for the former rural district families and claimed that the 1956 Housing Act had made the rural district council responsible for all the families in the camp . |
| 6 | After the dissolution of the Soviet Union , Russia , whose delegation was led by State Councillor Sergei Shakhrai , had taken over responsibility for the former Soviet military divisions in the Baltic . |
| 7 | It appeared that the " Paris Club " of Western creditor governments had softened its insistence that Ukraine should assume collective responsibility for the former Soviet Union 's foreign debt , following a meeting between Vitold Fokin , the Ukraine Prime Minister , and Jean-Claude Trichet , the Paris Club president , on March 3 . |
| 8 | A Vietnam national army would be rapidly created to assume responsibility for the internal situation and as this progressed French forces would withdraw to border areas or where unnecessary depart . |
| 9 | 9.2 Party walls The internal non-load bearing walls that divide the Premises from the adjoining units in the Centre and from the Retained Parts shall be deemed to be party walls within the meaning of the Law of Property Act 1925 section 38 and shall be maintained at the equally shared expense of the Tenant and the other respective estate owners As the footnote to the precedent states , the object of this provision is that the tenant and the adjoining estate owner ( who could be either another tenant or even the landlord ) will share the responsibility for the internal divisional walls . |
| 10 | He succeeded in winning Stansfield 's confidence and in stamping his personal authority on all areas of the new department , including Simon 's , by intercepting correspondence and seizing responsibility for the smallest details of policy . |
| 11 | the lack of extra assigned responsibility for the extra pay ( Scale 2 ) of one of the assistant Art teachers . |
| 12 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 13 | Though there has been a clear public responsibility for the long-term residents of mental hospitals , public responsibility for those discharged has not been so well established . |
| 14 | P.S. I noted that BR accepted responsibility for the recent accident in the tunnel . |
| 15 | THE Government has been accused of trying to ‘ slither out ’ of responsibility for the recent upsurge in terror . |
| 16 | Second , Fuchs blamed the deficit on the museum 's poor administrative structure , ‘ I did not have a system which enabled me to accept responsibility for the financial affairs of the museums ’ . |
| 17 | A new funding structure would place responsibility for the financial support for those who enter residential care with the local authority who would have to assess their need for such a placement . |
| 18 | Although responsibility for the financial statements lies with the entity and its management , in order to mitigate engagement risk it will be necessary for MAS to be satisfied with the information presented in the financial statements of the entity being divested . |
| 19 | NATO had proposed to create a new " rapid reaction force " in Europe , which it wanted to bear the responsibility for the front-line defence of the region , as the USA 's own troop presence in Western Europe was wound down [ see p. 38216 ] . |
| 20 | With the movement of responsibility for the Russian market from the UK to its Mountain View headquarters in California Sun has made a considerable drive in the scientific and academic markets in Russia . |
| 21 | The Secretary of State for the Environment , Brice Lalonde ( Ecology Generation ) , was promoted to Minister-Delegate responsible for the prevention of technological and natural disasters , while Hélène Dorlhac ( Union for French Democracy ) , Secretary of State for the Family , also took over responsibility for the Elderly , from Théo Braun who left the government . |
| 22 | We also accept responsibility for the negligent acts and/or omissions not only of our own employees or agents but also of our suppliers and sub-contractors and their servants or agents ( provided of course that any such negligent act or omission is within the scope of or in the course of their employment ) in respect of claims arising as a result of death , bodily injury or illness caused to the person who signed the booking form and/or any other person named on the booking form . |
| 23 | Given that series of gaffes , will he now compound his confusion and tell us that he bears no personal responsibility for the appalling slump that is devastating Britain today ? |
| 24 | They have asked that we take that on , there is a report later in the agenda with detail on that , but as far as these papers are concerned that 's simply us taking over responsibility for the best part of two million pounds ' worth of spending which the health authority will refund to us by way of a section twenty eight grant . |
| 25 | At the time of his appointment Verney was social work service officer in the Welsh Office with special responsibility for the deaf and blind in Wales . |
| 26 | Britain 's 56 area Probation Committees have a statutory responsibility for the efficient carrying out the work of the Probation Service , mainly through delegated management by the chief probation officer . |
| 27 | The responsibility for the remaining four services would then be split between Carole Ann and Susan Horler , Typing Pool Supervisor . |
| 28 | The new department will have responsibility for the Dutch Institute for Energy Research , the Dutch end of the European Space Agency , the Institute for Marine Research and for the promotion of microelectronics , and biotechnology . |
| 29 | He decided to shift responsibility for the Dutch Indies onto other shoulders , judging that anyway it was , in language he was accustomed to , a ‘ can of worms ’ . |
| 30 | Foreign trade officials from all 15 union republics met on July 26 and signed an agreement to divide among the republics Soviet diamond , gold and hard currency reserves , and foreign credits to the Soviet Union , as well as sharing responsibility for the Soviet Union 's $65,000 million foreign debt . |