3037 examples of responsibility in sentences

Therefore, there is no such thing as moral responsibility in the sense in which this expression is ordinarily used.

A jury is less bound by public opinion; their responsibility is divided; they are not as a rule seeking office; while swayed by the crowd they are still more independent than judges and with them the common man, the accused, has a better chance.

The first thing necessary to lessen crime and to relieve victims from the cruelty of moral judgments is a change of public opinion as to human responsibility.

Heredity, view of man as the product of environment and, 34-36; relation of environment and, 37-40; problem of future, to adjust environment to, 41-43, 277-278; responsibility of, for the criminal, 57-65; child criminal as result of, 78-79; accounting for accused men's actions by, 126-129; effects of, 201-202; laws of, not sufficiently known to justify sterilization, 237-238.

He was called to many positions of financial responsibility, among the most important being that of President of the Merchants' National Bank, and that of a Director in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.

After two years of pressing responsibility and anxious care the Trustees of the Johns Hopkins University present the first detailed account of their trust.

It can implant in the young breasts of its students exalted sentiments and a worthy ambition; it can infuse into their hearts the sense of honor, of duty, and of responsibility.

It should never be forgotten in considering the history of such a foundation that the ultimate responsibility for its organization and government rests upon the Board of Trustees.

The itinerant lecturers, not less than the university and the local management, have responsibility for the progress of the cause.

When a man is touched with religious ideas he seeks to make converts, when he has views on political questions he agitates to make his views prevail: culture on the other hand has been only too often cherished as a badge of exclusiveness, instead of the very consciousness of superior education being felt as a responsibility which could only be satisfied by efforts to educate others.

"Padre mio!" Obediently the don accepted the responsibility laid upon him by his sole-born who ruled him without question, and made official the invitation.

This puerile dogma was asserted ostensibly in the interest of Slavery, in order to get rid of the power of Congress over that subject; but the real source of it was the cowardice of those invertebrate and timorous politicians who desired to evade the responsibility of expressing opinions concerning this power.

Freedom from cramping police surveillance; freedom from the arbitrary control of government, unchecked by responsibility to the people; freedom from the narrowing prescriptions of ecclesiastical authority, backed by the power of the state; freedom from the literary restraint of medievalism in modern lettersthese and various other brands of freedom were demanded by different members of the school.

In full view of his great responsibility he has so far done what he has deemed his duty.

In full view of my great responsibility to my God and to my country, I earnestly beg the attention of Congress and the people to the subject.

The exercise of some independence of judgment in regard to all acts of legislation is plainly implied in the responsibility of approving them.

It is by these that I have been clothed with the high powers which they have seen fit to confide to their Chief Executive and been charged with the solemn responsibility under which those powers are to be exercised.

The board thus constituted was given as much permanency as could be imparted to it without endangering the proper share of responsibility which should attach to all public agents.

Upon this information and upon its own knowledge of the subject the Senate made up and pronounced its judgment upon its own high responsibility, and as the result of that judgment the treaty was ratified, as the Journal shows, by a vote of 39 to 9.

Of the policy of that provision of law it does not become me to speak, except to say that the institution of inquiries into the conduct of public agents, however urgent the necessity for such inquiry may be, is thereby virtually denied to the Executive, and that if evils of magnitude shall arise in consequence of the law I take to myself no portion of the responsibility.

The duties which the Constitution and the laws devolve on the President must be performed by him under his official responsibility, and he is not at liberty to disregard high interests or thwart important public objects by untimely publications made against his own judgment, by whomsoever such publications may be requested.

The responsibility of deciding this question is now devolved upon you.

Great Britain, having recognized her responsibility to repair all such wrongs by her action in other cases, leaves nothing to be regretted upon the subject as to all cases arising prior to the treaty of Washington than the delay in making suitable reparation in such of them as fall plainly within the principle of others which she has long since adjusted.

But she soon roused herself to face her new lack of responsibility, and to enjoy it.

Responsibility is not an attribute of anything but human beings, and few of these can respond, in damages or otherwise.

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