Example sentences of "responsibility for the [adj] " in BNC.

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31 Subsequently the Labour Party in Israel sought common ground with Jordan against Syria and the PLO , on the basis of some form of shared responsibility for the occupied territories .
32 Pugh feels that Hunter 's responsibility for the early affairs of the College has been overrated .
33 establish responsibility for the additional assessment
34 The Whitehall demarcations described in Chapter 1 assigned responsibility for the criminal law and penal establishments to the Home Office , as well as the oversight of certain agencies of criminal justice : notably the police and the probation service .
35 As a kind of amalgam of a Ministry of Justice ( dealing with the rights of the individual ) and a Department of the Interior ( responsible for internal order and the integrity of the state ) , it would hardly be surprising for the Home Office to show symptoms of schizophrenia ; it controls immigration , prisons , and drug abuse , for example , in addition to carrying responsibility for the Metropolitan Police and the Special Branch , and all these activities depend heavily on collecting and using personal information .
36 This meant that , even with daily case conferences , it was not possible for one nurse either to supervise or take responsibility for the individualised care of each client .
37 Vista Chemical , the American subsidiary of the German Company RWE-DEA has been given responsibility for the worldwide marketing of linear alkylbenzene .
38 In a society which took seriously its responsibility for the economic and social welfare of all its members this might not happen .
39 Treuhandanstalt is an agency withe special responsibility for the economic re-unification of Germany .
40 Lenin was involved in motivating revolutionary action by , in part , a critique of bureaucracy but later assumed responsibility for the economic development of a backward country that needed experts in positions of authority .
41 Denied the opportunity of supervising a major programme of construction in New York , where the Whitney Museum 's trustees have been unable to agree Michael Graves 's proposal for an extension , he is taking responsibility for the final stages of the conversion , now estimated to cost $35 million , of an ornamental warehouse located on Pittsburgh 's North Side , which will accommodate the museum .
42 It is essential , however , that the student takes responsibility for the final decisions on the selection of strategies and means of implementation .
43 No-one claimed responsibility for the co-ordinated series of explosions across Bombay during a busy afternoon .
44 No-one claimed responsibility for the co-ordinated series of explosions across Bombay during a busy afternoon .
45 The responsibility for the serious incident to which he referred was shared among several water authorities .
46 Responsibility for the prime functions of setting standards , monitoring and exercising control must always remain with site management .
47 Amid predictions that the emergency meeting could be the SED 's last party congress , the Communists have accepted ‘ full responsibility for the deepest crisis in the history of the GDR ’ .
48 Finally , if teachers were left to enjoy full responsibility for the specific content and teaching strategies to be deployed within each of the major categories of the national curriculum framework , there would be no infringement of teachers ' professional autonomy and the curriculum could be protected from unjustified political interference .
49 Rose , who has responsibility for the largest mortgage book in the South East of England , said she was delighted .
50 From 1 April the DoT will take over direct responsibility for the major repair work of inspecting the underside of the viaducts , where important structural defects have appeared .
51 The tier of local government which accepts responsibility for the major spending departments of education and social services becomes dominant in financial terms and consequently in status .
52 The new company assumes responsibility for the profitable development of these sites and any future surplus land .
53 We might compare this ethical relation to Cixous ' remarks about the need to love the other or Kristeva 's recent preoccupation with love which , from this perspective , hardly involves the sudden apostasy of which she has been accused , but rather as for Levinas consists of a way of formulating a ‘ responsibility for the Other , being-for-the-other ’ .
54 but he person who was shop steward for the finishing department more or less assumed responsibility for the other shop stewards because the other shop stewards would perhaps only have fifteen or twenty , you know members er under them .
55 Mandela said that the ANC accepted full responsibility for the damning findings of the commission and that a fully independent commission would be appointed and that the ANC was considering the commission 's other recommendations .
56 For six years or so the CNAA had moved with caution — indeed , only one of its officers , Francis Hanrott , had any previous experience involving contact with teacher education , and he was given responsibility for the various levels of negotiation .
57 But responsibility for the developing conflict with the Jewish community as with the hostility of the Labour movement , has to be seen as a matter of convergence .
58 As a former Minister with responsibility for the disabled , I am well aware of the immense amount of work and care that has gone into the care of the disabled .
59 Clarins is the first to create a true day cream which adapts to all daytime elements ; because daytime bears the greatest responsibility for the visible signs of skin ageing and wrinkle formation : wide-ranging temperature and humidity changes ( indoor/outdoor transitions ) , varying light , UV rays , facial movements and expressions .
60 Responsibility for the key tenets of deconstruction — the autotelism of language , the inability of language to refer , the figurality of all language , and the self-deconstructing nature of literary texts — is therefore ambiguously divided between de Man and the texts that he reads .
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