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Responsibility in sentence

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We need to take responsibility for the future.
I'm an astrophysicist, and as such, it is my responsibility to trace the cosmic history of every single one of your atoms.
Never before has the responsibility to feed the world been in the hands of so few people.
Never before, as I said, has the responsibility for food been in the hands of so few.
What a glorious responsibility we have.
In another, the Hsu family’s all-American day at the beach turns dire when Rose is overwhelmed by the responsibility her mother assigns to her.
We are not even on the list when it comes to our responsibility for the health of this democracy.
Our ways of approaching agency and authority turn inside out to reflect the reality that no one has the answers to the challenges facing citizens in this century, and everyone has the responsibility for trying and participating in finding them.
The Security Council typically has the responsibility for providing the peacekeepers who build the security.
Who is the consumer, if you want, and who has responsibility for what one sees?
"Does it matter if I am in the world or not?" "And does it matter whether the kind of actions I take filter into a sense of responsibility?"
It's obviously also about taking responsibility, like I did here when throwing some green dye in the river in L.A., Stockholm, Norway and Tokyo, among other places.
Experience is about responsibility.
Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility.
It's our responsibility to get that information as individuals, so we understand and can make sure that we can contribute in our own way to prevention of major spread.
Our responsibility is to let everyone have the chance to realize their potential to the full.
One of the reasons why an institution is not in itself enough is that we have got to persuade people around the world to change their behavior as well, so you need that global ethic of fairness and responsibility across the generations.
So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years.
That global ethic can infuse the fairness and responsibility that is necessary for these institutions to work, but we should not lose the chance in this generation, in this decade in particular, with President Obama in America, with other people working with us around the world, to create global institutions for the environment, and for finance, and for security and for development, that make sense of our responsibility to other peoples, our desire to bind the world together, and our need to tackle problems that everybody knows exist.
In some cases this will involve a delegation of responsibility, a delegation of control from one country to another to take over certain kinds of administrative responsibilities.
There is a zone there, around Guantanamo Bay, where a treaty gives the United States administrative responsibility for a piece of land that's about twice the size of Manhattan.
Perhaps even in some arrangement that's a little bit like an escrow account, where you put land in the escrow account and the partner nation takes responsibility for it.
Similarly, a lot of art projects stay in the art community, and I feel very much a responsibility through mechanisms like TED, and like our relationship with the Obama White House, with the Senate, with John Kerry, to influence policy as much as possible with these pictures as well.
They're realizing that they have to take responsibility for what they do.
They are taking responsibility.
Patagonia's "Footprint Chronicles" basically goes through and tracks every product they make, and gives you social responsibility, and helps you understand the ethics behind the product they make.
Small levels of stock push resilience into other people's responsibility.
I guess because I'm from Tanzania I have a responsibility to welcome all of you once again.
So that is the way I feel: that I can only try to approach this notion of being compassionate, of understanding that there is a connectivity, that there is a unity in this world; that I want to try and serve that unity, and that I can try and do that by understanding, I hope, trying to understand something of the pain of others; but understanding that there are limits, that people have to bear responsibility for some of the problems that come upon them; and that I have to understand that there are limits to my energy, to the giving I can give.
But the next step is called "universal responsibility."
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