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He accused entrepreneurs who outsource production to low-wage countries of showing excessive greed and lack of social responsibility, and he compared the managers of international equity funds to a plague of locusts that occupy companies, exploit them, and move on after their destructive work is done.
If not a climate-change denier, the previous Australian government led by John Howard joined President George W. Bush in being a climate-change free rider: others would have to take responsibility for ensuring the planet’s survival.
The US constitution assigns senators the responsibility to confirm, by majority vote, the president’s cabinet nominees.
In other words, such a process would deal with the issues of 1967 – defining a border (including Jerusalem), withdrawing and dismantling settlements, putting in place security arrangements, and the Palestinians’ assumption of full governance responsibility – while shelving for the future those of 1948.
Even lawyers are getting into the act, trying to identify legal responsibility for the monetary union’s design flaws.
Most important, supervision suggested some potential responsibility to recapitalize problematic banks, and thus involved a fiscal cost.
Yet the same EU members have failed to endow the European Commission with overall responsibility for holding member governments to their commitments and, where necessary, imposing penalties for breaches.
And such an approach would cement the notion that central bank policy is “the only game in town,” relieving elected government leaders of their responsibility for pro-growth policies and the fiscal decisions they control.
Inasmuch as corporate leaders work for the owners of the business, their responsibility is to pursue the best interests of their employers - interests that relate primarily to making as much money as possible while conforming to the legal rules and ethical norms of society.
This need not be an act of corporate social responsibility.
Debt exceeding that amount would be left to the responsibility of the member states.
Reducing unemployment and poverty are not the responsibility of governments alone.
But they now bear a heavy responsibility.
Ultimately, the key is to build democratic institutions that are strong enough to de-escalate violence and protect citizens, which in turn requires that political leaders try new options, and that societies assume more responsibility for their fate.
These ideals – respect for human rights and human dignity, and the responsibility of citizens to ensure that their governments respect those rights – represent humanity’s highest aspirations.
Engineers have both an opportunity and a responsibility to close crucial gaps in the current system.
As chaos and confusion set in, we should not lose sight of President Pervez Musharraf’s partial responsibility for this turn of events.
Governments, companies, and individuals have a responsibility to listen to the facts and decide for themselves if they are part of the problem or the solution.
However, no international Uyghur organization listed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs acknowledges any responsibility for these earlier violent actions, and since September 11th, most of their expatriate information centers have disclaimed any support for international or domestic violence.
The education of refugees is a shared responsibility.
Working in partnership with governments, the private sector, and the institutions of civil society, African media can become a source of relevant information, competent comment and insight, and constructive and cooperative socially responsibility, even as it remains free, independent, and commercially successful.
The primary responsibility for completing the Round now rests with the US, Brazil, China, and India.
Income inequality is at historic highs, but the rich claim that they have no responsibility to the rest of society.
As a part of this global strategy, NATO strengthened its relations with partners elsewhere, including in Southeast Asia which is the SCO’s chief area of responsibility.
Over the past two decades, unilateral actions in disregard of the UN Security Council’s primary responsibility in matters of war and peace have led to greater uncertainty and instability.
Clearly, your infant daughter’s decision in two or three decades whether to have children is her own responsibility and choice to make.
Indeed, he regularly put forth ideas- on the dangers of globalization, on the need for global responsibility, on his vision of Europe as a federation of states and regions- before other political leaders dared to do so.
Paradoxically, too, the “greening” of America – an America that discovers late but with passion its responsibility for the planet’s survival – may lead to a competitive transatlantic race for first prize in ecological good behavior.
It was a shocking abdication of responsibility.
For one thing, the ECB is an international institution, bearing responsibility for monetary policy for the eurozone as a whole rather than Italy alone.
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