The man who paid out the twenty-five cents to each boy is in no way responsible for the success or failure of their investment of this quarter.

No one dreamt of having what is now known as responsible government, that is, an executive sitting in the legislature and responsible to the legislature for its acts.

The gentry, who were responsible in the first place for the protection of the people from whom they drew their income, insisted that the calamity was an imperial one and ought to be borne out of the exchequer of the empire.

But anybody would have to agree that responsibility for one's acts should depend upon the degree of one's intelligenceand from that point of view many of our friends are really much less responsible than sheep.

Perhaps gamers and their game culture have been as responsible as anyone for the rise in expressly self-similar forms of television like Beavis and Butt-head, The Simpsons and Southpark.

But it would not be right to ignore the fact that there are other deeper causes, unconnected with the actions of governments, for which we in this country are jointly responsible with the rest of the civilised world.

The whole nation is responsible at the bar of the world and before the tribunal of posterity for these atrocities, devised by members of its Cabinet and its Congress, directed by its Presidents, and executed by its armies and its courts.

And the governed are not exclusively males; the governed are men and women, for women are responsible before the law.

Yet he was held responsible by his own government and departed on that humiliating mission as if with a rope about his neck.

They had skillful and experienced management to which they immediately gave over all technical control, holding them responsible through an active Board of Directors and an accounting system devised by experts.

This mode of resolving the difficulty, however, proved unacceptable to the British Government, which chose rather to avoid all further discussion and expense under that article by fixing at a given sum the amount for which the United States should be held responsible under it.

Who are responsible without notice?

The duties devolving on this Department have been unusually onerous and responsible during the past year, and have been discharged with ability and success.

Am I responsible forfor the present state of affairs?" Ormsby stretched the truth a little; partly for Elinor's sake; more, perhaps, for Kent's.

A letter to Mr. Levett, of Lichfield, on the subject of a debt, for which he makes himself responsible on her account, affords so striking a proof of filial tenderness, that I cannot refuse myself the pleasure of transcribing it.

In my opinion not even the King himself has the right to subordinate the interests of his country to his own feelings of love or hatred towards strangers; he is, however, responsible towards God and not to me if he does so, and therefore on this point I am silent.

She would have to remain and explain Wayne, because she felt responsible about Wayne.