Example sentences of "held [adv] responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Congress , this motion urges a change in legislation so that , in the matter of insolvency , the employer be held liable to a much greater degree and indeed be held criminally responsible for actions involving awardance of debt liability . |
| 2 | Under the legislation , managers of catering establishments could be held personally responsible for each breach of the regulation and each penalty could mean fines of between £2,000 and £20,000 . |
| 3 | Like Mr Major , he had the ‘ Teflon ’ touch — that invaluable ability of politicians not to be held personally responsible for mistakes . |
| 4 | He now stands accused by The Hague city council of serious mismanagement of the Gemeentemuseum 's financial affairs , resulting in a deficit of DFl.4.2 million ( £1.6 million ; $2.3 million ) , a charge which may result in his being held personally responsible for the debts . |
| 5 | Legally , however , it seems that if it can be proved that Mr Fuchs spent above and beyond the municipally approved budget of DFl.12 million without authorisation , then he may be held personally responsible for the losses . |
| 6 | The narrow margin of this victory in the January 1992 direct elections was attributed to his being held personally responsible for painful economic reforms in 1991 , which caused price rises of up to 500 per cent and raised unemployment from 27,000 to 420,000 , while inflation in January 1992 stood at 30 per cent . |
| 7 | He is held personally responsible for complying with the many rules and regulations that govern its use . |
| 8 | We can explain that they come from an age when theology and the natural sciences were not divorced from one another , when God was held directly responsible for disasters we would now call ‘ natural ’ , and for which we would have scientific explanations to hand that did not mention God at all . |
| 9 | The idea , introduced by Sainsbury 's chairman Sir Roy Griffiths in his 1983 review of NHS management , is vested in meeting business-like objectives , with stricter costing of the service , and unit managers being held directly responsible for staying within set targets and providing an adequate service at the same time . |
| 10 | Sender of message and person responsible for delay in clearance will be held directly responsible for possible deaths of thousands . |
| 11 | ‘ It reminds me of the worst period in German history when members of certain institutions are held collectively responsible for what we now know was a misguided security doctrine , ’ Gen Schwanitz said . |
| 12 | The element of the image which suggests that as a matter of principled obligation all members of a group rushed to the aid of , say , an aggressive and irresponsible cattle-thief or rapist , may therefore be the product of the practical consideration that men related to an offender prudently assumed they would be held collectively responsible for his actions . |
| 13 | Moreover , the fragmentation that group participation creates in the policy process has been held partly responsible for the ‘ challenge to governance ’ faced by most Western nations since the 1970s . |
| 14 | The 1989 Schools ' Regulations allow governing bodies to delegate some of their responsibilities to sub-committees or to individuals , though the governing body can still be held legally responsible for any actions taken under these delegated powers . |
| 15 | Imagine our horror at the thought that we might now be held legally responsible for the tragic results of an inadequate diet . |
| 16 | Obviously where an agency contractual or ostensible has been created and the agent behaves improperly , whether by exercising undue influence upon or by making false representations to the surety , then the creditor will be held vicariously responsible for and affected by the acts of the agent committed in the execution of the agency . |