noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a position of responsibility
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Did you hold any positions of responsibility at school or university?
a sense of responsibility/duty (= a feeling that you must do something because it is right )
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Parents try to give their children a sense of responsibility.
assume responsibility for
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Whoever they appoint will assume responsibility for all financial matters.
carry out your duties/responsibilities
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She carried out her duties very efficiently.
carry out your duties/responsibilities
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She carried out her duties very efficiently.
claim responsibility (= say that you are responsible for something bad )
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Following the attack, a man phoned a newspaper claiming responsibility.
collective responsibility
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our collective responsibility for the environment
diminished responsibility
discharge your duties/responsibilities/obligations etc
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The trustees failed to discharge their duties properly.
disclaim responsibility/knowledge etc
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Martin disclaimed any responsibility for his son’s actions.
domestic responsibilities
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It can be hard to balance your work and your domestic responsibilities.
evading...responsibilities
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You can’t go on evading your responsibilities in this way.
fault/blame/responsibility lies with sb
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Part of the blame must lie with social services.
give sb control/authority/responsibility etc
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She was given absolute control over all recruitment decisions.
shirk your responsibilities/duties/obligations
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parents who shirk their responsibilities towards their children
shoulder a responsibility
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The coach shoulders the responsibility for winning and losing.
sole responsibility
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She has the sole responsibility for a large family.
take the credit/blame/responsibility
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He’s the kind of man who makes things happen but lets others take the credit.
the burden of responsibility
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He felt unable to cope with the burden of responsibility.
turn the matter/problem/responsibility etc over to sb
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I’m turning the project over to you.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
collective
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These are examples of collective responsibility for past wrongs.
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Liberation has turned sour producing anomie and alienation, severely undermining any sense of collective responsibility or response.
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Fighting against threats to young children's rights to early childhood opportunities could be seen as an expression of legitimate collective responsibility .
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In so far as leaks advertise unhappiness about a line of policy they undermine the principle of collective responsibility , as well as the confidentiality of proceedings.
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Civil servants are instructed to safeguard the collective responsibility of ministers.
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The courts have not been given a mandate to spell out collective responsibilities , and even less to police them.
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Even conventions that are well established in principle such as those relating to cabinet collective responsibility may be vague in their application.
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A moral climate has been created in which collective responsibility has become unfashionable.
domestic
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They are at a disadvantage in the job market because of lower education and training levels, cultural prejudice and domestic responsibilities .
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Union consciousness and the activists Conventional wisdom attributes women's low participation in union affairs largely to domestic responsibilities .
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The attitude of employers to domestic responsibilities is of considerable importance and highly variable.
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Working in prisons, with the need for round-the-clock supervision poses particular problems for women who also carry traditional domestic responsibilities .
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In the next chapter we show that taking part-time work usually leads to an increase in domestic responsibility .
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In the past many health authorities discriminated unfairly by not employing those who may have had domestic responsibilities .
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The interviews update employment histories and focus on domestic activities, responsibilities and attitudes towards the performance of household tasks.
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Financial difficulties and childcare / domestic responsibilities , have been shown in other research on participation to be fundamental barriers.
full
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Another Board colleague,, has taken full time responsibility for quality, safety, health and the environment.
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My insisting that you own full responsibility has absolutely nothing to do with gender at all.
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Yes, we accept full responsibility for the quality of the holidays we provide.
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I accept full responsibility for the jury verdict.
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Company staff will begin moving into Topcliffe in April, assuming full responsibility for the operation from July.
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When I turned twenty, I decided to take full responsibility for myself.
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His expression was stern, full of protective responsibility .
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You must also take full responsibility for your choice of components and their suitability for the job.
great
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But the government is committed to the notion of care by the community and wants families to take on greater responsibilities .
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Some should be delegated a great deal of responsibility and others should not.
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So we felt a great weight of responsibility .
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He seemed to realize the full import of the consequences and the great responsibility of his position.
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With the opting-out opportunity, schools will have greater responsibility and liberty than under local authorities.
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A great responsibility , therefore, rests upon the tutor.
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You have much greater freedom of choice how you spend your time -but that freedom also confers greater responsibility on you.
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One member of the group might seek participation and greater responsibility , whereas another might want to be told what to do.
individual
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Is there a clear understanding of joint and individual areas of responsibility of headteacher and governors?
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How to align individual roles, responsibilities , and accountabilities with functional and / or organization-wide performance objectives 7.
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However, this does not relieve the individual from responsibility .
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But it also diminishes individual responsibilities and all but guarantees that organizational performance will remain consistently low.
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People who otherwise consider individual responsibility the pinnacle of virtue seem unable to perceive an individual responsibility to protect an endangered planet.
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Corporate executives also have an individual responsibility not to ignore widespread epidemics created by their products.
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We talk of the individual consumer, individual professional responsibilities , individual responsibilities within the family, and so on.
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Clinton emphasized the spirit of community and Watts stressed individual responsibility .
legal
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The child, however, is a minor, the legal responsibility of his/her parents or guardians.
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Each participating State will provide controls to ensure that such authorities fulfil their constitutional and legal responsibilities .
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We can not however guarantee it and we can not accept legal responsibility for it.
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What legal responsibilities does the school board have in the bargaining process?
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Sons carried this legal responsibility throughout their lives; daughters relinquished it when they married.
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His legal responsibilities for issues such as extradition have also brought him into contact with senior legal and political figures in Ireland.
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The exodus comes as governors acquire legal responsibilities for the running of schools as a result of the Government's education reforms.
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Adoption Adoption involves the legal transfer of responsibility for a child from its natural parents.
moral
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Put briefly, there developed an idea of the pervasive religious and moral responsibility of the ruler.
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Worse, it attributes moral agency and responsibility to this distinct entity.
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These ties bear hardest on those who tend to accept moral responsibility for caring roles.
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This meant that man has an inescapable moral responsibility for his own actions.
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The real priority was a greater stress on moral responsibility in the education of the sons of the upper class.
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Philosophers and psychologists alike have eroded all our old assumptions of free will and moral responsibility .
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We are interested now in the question of moral responsibility .
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The company accepted moral responsibility for the disaster, but claimed that the plant was sabotaged by a disgruntled employee.
overall
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Azed's new department is headed by Thomas Egger, who will have overall responsibility for buying, marketing and sales.
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Mr Treuting will have overall responsibility for the growth and profitability of Verio's operations in the Southeast business market.
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In this respect Ramsay Spence was given overall responsibility for quality, health, safety and environmental matters during the year.
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Usually the baby has one nurse with overall responsibility for primary care and then a designated primary nurse for each shift.
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He or she is the chief executive with overall responsibility for running the institution.
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The general manager has overall responsibility for the operation of the hotel.
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Government chief executives, like their counterparts in the private sector, have overall responsibility for how their organizations perform.
parental
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It calls for expanding family and medical leave, but also touches on criticism of violence in entertainment, and parental responsibility .
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Accommodation may be offered even if there is a person with parental responsibility able to provide accommodation for the child.
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When a parent hands over the child, he or she loses parental oversight and responsibility .
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This includes an unmarried father whether or not he has parental responsibility .
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Where the application is made on behalf of a parent or person with parental responsibility one form is sufficient.
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When advising an unmarried father it is important to note that party status is based on parental responsibility and not paternity.
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The father applied for parental responsibility , residence and contact.
personal
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The iron hand of the Conservative administration's first 5 years gave way to sermons on personal responsibility .
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Our best hope is to reclaim personal responsibility for our civilization.
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We know that you can understand all you like but in the end offenders must face their personal responsibility .
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They also need to display such personal qualities as responsibility , integrity, and honesty.
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Their daily routines are starting to reflect their preferences and abilities and to include a level of personal responsibility .
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The corollary is that acquiring an addiction is tantamount to relieving oneself of personal responsibility .
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The scope of personal responsibility expands and contracts in inverse proportion to the extent of the protected interests.
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I wish the church would begin emphasizing personal responsibility more.
primary
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The editor's primary responsibility would be the tedious business of bringing the paper out every week.
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Otherwise, recognize that some one has to take primary responsibility for this issue, and proceed accordingly.
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We would thus have primary responsibility to ensure that the advertisement is factually accurate.
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They should speak to as many managers as they can about what the managerial role entails: What are your primary responsibilities ?
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But he bears primary responsibility for tax and economic policies that lost Labour the election.
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He must bear primary responsibility for the chaos that descended upon the White House when such disclosure did occur.
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Parliament has chosen to discharge this function by placing primary responsibility upon a scrutiny committee formed especially for the purpose.
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They did not want the new managers to infringe on their job as doer with primary responsibility for the task.
professional
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We talk of the individual consumer, individual professional responsibilities , individual responsibilities within the family, and so on.
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Will we display more of the statesmanship, selflessness, and disregard for monetary advantage associated with public service and professional responsibility ?
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It is aimed at both local authorities and librarians to remind them of the professional responsibilities of librarians.
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Graduates, after all, pass into society and take up significant posts of managerial or professional responsibility .
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Schools have a professional responsibility to offer guidance to young people in transition to work.
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To feel good about myself is my top professional responsibility .
social
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However, the concept of social responsibility and service is of limited use in developing a radical social movement.
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They are emotionally unable to take charge of their social and work responsibilities .
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There is a separation between science and ethics, between technology and social responsibility .
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Within the firm and out, Raven has been a force for enhancing social responsibility within the law.
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None of these third-tier authorities have significant social policy responsibilities , so they will not be examined further here.
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Not a week goes by without a Bush speech on health, education, pensions or social responsibility .
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But is it not desirable to encourage authors to recognise their social responsibility ?
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The fourth type of press theory put forward is that of social responsibility .
sole
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From the moment you take the big glass off my hands you will have the sole responsibility for it.
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The federal government has sole responsibility to enforce immigration laws, including the prevention of illegal entries into the United States.
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What I mean is, women are vulnerable when they are housewives because they also have sole responsibility for childcare at home.
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Education is not considered the sole responsibility of the schools.
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The Church is still beset by those who believe that its ministry is the sole responsibility of the clergy.
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She's matched with a somewhat feckless husband and has the sole responsibility for a large family.
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But the important decisions ... well, it stands to reason that these would be the sole responsibility of the man.
special
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The executive has a number of committees and policy groups that take on special responsibilities .
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In many societies the father has no special responsibility to support the specific children he sires.
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At the Confirmation Mass each of us had our special responsibility as musician, reader or at the preparation of the gifts.
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I had no such special personal responsibility .
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And this places a very special responsibility on education systems the world over.
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Mike Wilding, is a software analyst at Atari with special responsibility for combating piracy.
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As the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, the United States has a special responsibility to act.
■ VERB
abdicate
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But this made the Department and ministers once again vulnerable to charges of abdicating their responsibilities for financial and policy goals.
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When governments abdicate this steering responsibility , disaster often follows.
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This is not a reason why district ethics committees should yield to pressure to abdicate their responsibilities to local citizens.
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It worked in a few places, but most governments abdicated their steering responsibilities .
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If the court took this view, it would be abdicating its responsibility .
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President Kennedy assured Wallace that federal troops would be used only if the state abdicated its responsibilities .
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By invoking testosterone a man can abdicate responsibility for his own behaviour.
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Orkney Islands Council abdicated all responsibility to its social work department: my children were made to suffer accordingly.
accept
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Recent reorganisations have been strongly influenced by discussions about the appropriate size that would enable a local authority to accept particular responsibilities .
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Administrators offered vague explanations but would not accept responsibility .
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Ministers must accept our responsibility for decisions.
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Anyway, I accepted responsibility and apologized and expressed deep remorse.
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Many subcontractors are unwilling to accept the responsibility and initial liability of training apprentices.
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And Mayleas has accepted the responsibility of finding the money.
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But the Government had to face the realities and accept responsibilities , he said.
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The Independent Labour Party was thus forced to accept full responsibility for continuing the dispute.
assume
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If they fail will they assume responsibility for the failure or blame some one else?
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Finally, the center assumed the responsibility for a modest technological support component.
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As head of CI5, Cowley had assumed the responsibility for the protection of the Colonel, a guest in the country.
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But you know already that I am not the sort to assume responsibility for my inconsistencies.
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The government itself became larger and more concentrated in its operation as it assumed increasing responsibilities in areas such as education and defence.
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His refusal to talk to the media is but the latest example of his disinterest in assuming any leadership responsibilities .
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The new company assumes responsibility for the profitable development of these sites and any future surplus land.
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As the supervisor moves into a coordination role, employees assume even more responsibility for problem resolution and daily operations.
bear
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Whoever bears the responsibility , the domination of local government by party politics is now almost complete.
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Wallace probably knew he could not prevent intervention and wanted the national government to bear the responsibility .
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The Government's inefficiency bears the whole responsibility .
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It was hard to tell which side bore more responsibility for the disorders, the police or the rioters.
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It was as though she were dead and he bore the responsibility for killing her.
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But he bears the responsibility for hiring Livingstone in the first place instead of a career security official.
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He must bear primary responsibility for the chaos that descended upon the White House when such disclosure did occur.
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It protects me from bearing any responsibility for my decisions and actions.
carry
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Some critics have considered it to be too weak and idiosyncratic to carry responsibility for major public and social services.
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Television licenses do have great value and they should carry responsibilities .
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Some religious have moved into smaller communities whilst carrying the responsibility for caring for their own elderly and sick brothers and sisters.
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But your right to a proper education for your children carries a double responsibility .
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This would carry with it a responsibility on their part to help devise the tests, or at least to scrutinize their content.
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We must all believe in the future and strive harder to carry out our responsibilities .
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They are irrelevant except as witnesses of the power and to carry joint responsibility for what has been decided without their help.
claim
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The unit had claimed responsibility for the assassination of over 300 troops, policemen and government officials since 1984.
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Too many people claim that our only responsibility is to our shareholders.
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The Red Hand Defenders also claimed responsibility .
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No one has claimed responsibility for the blast so far, the spokesman said.
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The Unita rebel movement claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that the train was carrying munitions and was a legitimate target.
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No one has claimed responsibility for the devices, which were contained in musical holiday cards.
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It had also claimed responsibility for blasts near the presidential palace and government buildings last month.
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Authorities said no group has claimed responsibility .
discharge
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All records were to be available to Cardiff city council to allow it to discharge its statutory responsibilities .
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Ways in which the authority can discharge its responsibilities for standard setting for all aspects of care will also require attention.
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There seemed to be no incompatibility between building a welfare state at home and discharging the responsibilities of a great power abroad.
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The question is whether he can discharge that responsibility to Parliament without being in day-to-day charge.
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I discharged my responsibility at the court, and that is that.
ensure
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His responsibility is to ensure that a particular package has achieved the quality standards set by the project which is using it.
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The clinical teacher also has a responsibility to ensure that a high standard of nursing care is given to the patient.
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It is our responsibility to ensure defendants are fairly prosecuted, and that has also happened.
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It is your responsibility to ensure that the data is correct.
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States have the responsibility for ensuring teacher competence, and state statutes generally set out standards for teacher certification.
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Their responsibility is to ensure that articles are forwarded for consideration by the editorial committee for inclusion in the newsletter.
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We have to recognize that it is our responsibility to ensure that the natural fears and concerns that people have are allayed.
feel
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I know many women who would give their eye teeth to be married to him and I feel that responsibility .
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I feel honored and I feel a little responsibility , too.
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How do you feel about taking on responsibility ?
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One can feel responsibility without feeling love, otherwise the world would be uninhabited.
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You just felt so much responsibility for all these people, who had loved you and followed you all these years.
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It won't be altogether a lie, I feel a responsibility towards him that I don't really understand.
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That is how strongly she felt about her responsibility to produce a male heir to the Kang clan.
give
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She was given the special responsibility of taking care of me, and I owe her my life.
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Each team was given unambiguous achievement responsibility , commensurate authority, and uncluttered accountability.
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The TECs are given the responsibility .
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As for the states, Congress is going to give them more responsibilities but provide less oversight and money.
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The C. and A. G. is given the responsibility for auditing all appropriation accounts by the 1921 Act.
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If you give all the kids responsibility , maybe they will do better.
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Most want to feel they can give responsibility to one contract.
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The federal government must give direction and accept responsibility .
lie
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All responsibility now lay with the West.
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Especially Phagu, on whom responsibility lay like a cement overcoat.
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Mr. Robert Hughes Is the hon. Member aware that the companies argue that responsibility lies not with them but with their contractors?
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The day-to-day responsibility for each agency lies with a chief executive.
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The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust.
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Conflicting official versions of the circumstances of the assassination fed doubts as to where ultimate responsibility lay .
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The Communist Party's paralysis is one factor, but the prime responsibility lies with Labour's manic political caution.
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The reasons behind it, however, and the related issue of where responsibility lies , have still not been entirely explained.
share
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The four students and the staff work out the running of the household between them and share the responsibilities .
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Managers and supervisors will no longer make hiring decisions or, at a minimum, will share such decision-making responsibilities .
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Rates Rates have their origin in attempts to share responsibility fairly among local residents for services provided in common.
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Elers and Bayer will share the responsibilities of chief executive.
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They shared their responsibilities for the smooth running of Zone I with the enthusiasm of those bound by a loveless marriage.
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Workplace 2000 emphasizes shared responsibility for group performance.
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Dan Mulligan, a San Francisco lawyer who specializes in handling lending and foreclosure cases, agreed that homeowners shared responsibility .
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Cook County shares responsibility with the city for providing health services.
shift
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No one can shift responsibility on to others or trade off their resources.
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Penney also shifted the responsibilities and titles of several other executives in different regions.
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But the move to shift legal responsibility for correct labelling on to the shopkeeper has shocked trade organisations.
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That has been changing, with contracts shifting a growing responsibility for premiums and / or costs to workers.
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Regretfully traditional inspection often shifts the focus of responsibility for the quality of performance away from the person carrying out the work.
shoulder
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At the same time they are told they must shoulder bigger world responsibilities .
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Monika is now taking legal advice in a bid to force the missing priest to shoulder his responsibilities .
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The capacity of the fourteen divisions to shoulder this responsibility , and the load placed on each division both varied enormously.
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I think everyone has got to shoulder the responsibility for defeat, not just Graham.
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Meanwhile Ras Tafari stood alone, shouldering full responsibility without real power, and uncertain whom he could trust.
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He failed to shoulder the responsibility , which Government should shoulder, for imposing the tax in the first place.
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In some respects, young people have gained greater autonomy and are expected to shoulder adult responsibilities at ever younger ages.
take
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How long will he take on the responsibility of a wife who is blind and helpless?
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I no longer take responsibility for anything that happens in my life, good or bad.
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The executive has a number of committees and policy groups that take on special responsibilities .
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Speakers urge the crowd to take responsibility for their own lives, families and communities. 18 -- Sen.
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On appointment to office a new minister will take over responsibility for many departmental policies.
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The A Section took over responsibility for the diplomatic and clandestine material and for the production of the Magic Summary.
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They also take the primary responsibility for the care of children.
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The disappearance of predictable career paths means that all employees have to take more responsibility for planning their own careers.
transfer
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Lord Bullock further suggests that he may even have been reluctant to transfer this particular responsibility to the United States.
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The innovation of transferring responsibility to an indigenous anti-Communist corps had been started too late.
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Managers are frequently willing to transfer responsibility for performing certain tasks, particularly under supervision.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
abdicate (your) responsibility
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By invoking testosterone a man can abdicate responsibility for his own behaviour.
accept responsibility/blame for sth
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All you can do in such cases is accept responsibility for the emotions you feel when you are around such people.
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Governors need to inform themselves thoroughly about the current state of the school building before they accept responsibility for it.
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If people are to accept responsibility for outcomes, they will insist upon being substantively included in the decision process.
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May we learn to accept responsibility for our own actions and inactions and for our mistakes as well as for our success.
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One central committee member, Ognjen Krstulovic, resigned because he could not accept responsibility for the implementation of the policy.
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People in a position of influence could accept responsibility for implementing the results.
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These must be obtained personally and we can not accept responsibility for them.
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You have to accept responsibility for the fruits of your actions, in the scientific field as elsewhere.
assume control/responsibility etc
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As a principal, he assumes responsibility for the performance of the entire transportation contract.
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But you know already that I am not the sort to assume responsibility for my inconsistencies.
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Given a chance to assume responsibility, many do.
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In 1991 it assumed responsibility for its own catering, with total revenue increasing by 60 percent partly as a result.
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It was still unclear last night, however, which party would assume control of the House.
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Then on 13 January 1972 the army dismissed Busia; a group of officers led by Colonel Acheampong assumed control.
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Virgin Trains says it would be prepared to assume responsibility for the state of the track over which its trains run.
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Zajedno leaders say they will assume control of Nis city hall next Monday.
shift the blame/responsibility (onto sb)
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A third means of avoiding responsibility consists of shifting the blame to even higher officials.
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He had to shift the blame, find a sacrificial victim.
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Her comments on Radio Derby came as Tories tried to shift the blame for Britain's economic ills elsewhere.
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In other words that they were shifting the blame.
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It shifts the blame to belief.
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Leaving the abusive marriage, or divorcing him, will be branded desertion or a sin, shifting the blame to her.
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Penney also shifted the responsibilities and titles of several other executives in different regions.
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Time after time, ministers have tried to shift the blame for rising unemployment to the down-turn in the world economy.
shoulder the responsibility/duty/cost/burden etc
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After the publicists, casting directors began to shoulder the burden.
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He failed to shoulder the responsibility, which Government should shoulder, for imposing the tax in the first place.
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I think everyone has got to shoulder the responsibility for defeat, not just Graham.
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It does indeed make those who require nursing care through no fault of their own shoulder the cost.
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Voice over Swindon is one of the eighties boom towns which has had to shoulder the burden of recession.
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Why, he asked, should the taxpayer shoulder the burden of expropriation?
transfer power/responsibility/control (to sb)
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In order to transfer control to a new sequence of instructions, a new value must be deposited in the program counter.
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Managers are frequently willing to transfer responsibility for performing certain tasks, particularly under supervision.
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Pairs of jump instructions were provided to transfer control to the left- or right-hand instruction of a specified store location.
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The innovation of transferring responsibility to an indigenous anti-Communist corps had been started too late.
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They also achieve another prime objective of Conservative Governments, which is to transfer power from the state to the people.
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Yet he is ahead of many heavily funded university labs in attempting to transfer control from humans to machines.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Having children is a big responsibility and I'm not sure I'm ready for that yet.
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I have a bad habit of taking on more responsibilities than I can handle.
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It is a manger's responsibility to set clear expectations for his or her employees.
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Nick has a lot of responsibilities at home.
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The children are your responsibility .
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The house is my responsibility , and I can't just let it fall apart.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also, each manager only had shift responsibility and so could not co-ordinate the work across shifts.
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Both of us were fully aware of our responsibilities.
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But being the head means he has to take some responsibility .
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Do the media have a responsibility to make voters care about scandal?
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Professional librarians normally make only policy recommendations to the Library Committee, and this is the limit of their responsibility .
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Typically, managers focus on operating their area of assigned responsibility for efficiency, cost containment, and compliance with delivery schedules.