1681 examples of responsible for in sentences

The conduct of the school during the present term has been far from satisfactory: two acts of gross misconduct have already been committed, and I cannot but blame those whom I hold mainly responsible for the order of the school that in both instances the offenders should have gone unpunished.

I next interviewed Captain Laufer and demanded of him also the horse and mule, as I was responsible for them to Quartermaster Hays.

" "She is a fine boat," Dave assented; "but I don't feel like being responsible for what may happen to the young lady who is more especially under my escort and care.

The rich were falsely accused of social wrong-doing; they were by no means responsible for poverty.

He was responsible for their welfare and well-being.

"Yes," said the Commandant, reading Dorothea's thought, "a large family to be responsible for!

We know of no one cause more responsible for whatever there may be of physical degeneracy among the farming population than the treatment of its child-bearing women; and this, after all, is but a result of entire devotion to the tyrannical idea of labor.

'The King can do no wrong,' says the legal axiom, and hence it follows that somebody must be responsible for his measures, if these be contrary to law or injurious to the country's welfare.

It is the surprising Caesarians who have been responsible for this deficiency of funds."

Our Square was an established center of the social respectabilities when the foot of Fifth Avenue was still frequented by the occasional cow whose wanderings are responsible for the street-plan of Greenwich Village.

His kennel was built up on a Braeside foundation, and has contained at one time or other such flyers as Ben Bowdler, Bob Bowdler, Rufus Bowdler, Dixon Bowdler, Eva Bowdler, Mary Bowdler, Blue-coat Bowdler, Susan Bowdler, and others, and Ben and Bob have also been, as sires, responsible for the success of a good many dogs hailing from other kennels.

At this time I went in for music with an earnestness worthy of maturer years; a change of teachers was largely responsible for this.

I am after the person or persons responsible for the death of Roland Warren.

" He was so surprised and shocked as I replied, "I do not believe that Keseberg was responsible for my mother's death," that he interrupted me, lost for a moment the manner of the impartial historian, and with the directness of a cross-questioning attorney asked: "Is it possible that Mrs. George Donner's daughter defends the murderer of her mother?"

But whoever was responsible for the first report matters little.

Up to very recent times the peasant who rented his land paid 40-50 per cent of the produce to the landowner, who was responsible for payment of the normal land tax.

I don't see how we can hold you responsible for deeds done while you were mentally disabled from shell-shock.

Henri Bué, who was responsible for the French version, had no easy task to perform.

"She was really responsible for the postponement of the wedding in December, I'm told.

So far as I have observed, London has been guilty of no such vandalism as is responsible for the new Boulevard Raspail in Paris, and similar heartless destructiveness, in a city which belongs less to France than to the human soul.

He said he'd hold us responsible for the cattle.

God holds all parents, according to their light and understanding, responsible for the training of their children.

He might fear that he would be held responsible for the accident.

[Footnote 1: Mr. Wood and Mr. Webb were the Under-Secretary of State and the Solicitor of the Treasury; and, as such, the officers chiefly responsible for the form of the warrant complained of.]

He was responsible for the erection of the Magnetic Observatory in Dublin, and the instruments used in it were constructed under his observation and sometimes from his designs or modifications.

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