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Under both systems, those who accept responsibility to take military action also take on the lion’s share of the financial burden.
It is to deliver a form of decentralized punishment that makes it very costly for dictatorial regimes to violate other people’s rights with impunity and to create pliant cadres of henchmen who “only follow orders,” as if that exempted them from moral responsibility.
In democratic countries, we expect justice to be the government’s responsibility.
The US and Europe have a global responsibility as two of the largest importers of fish.
As national governments took responsibility for the European objective of fiscal sustainability, annual budget targets imposed by the EU would become obsolete, at which point that should be abandoned altogether.
The government's responsibility was to put into effect political and economic reforms, far-reaching reforms – and these required social peace.
The IMF would then have primary responsibility for assessing the credit worthiness of all 160 member governments and perhaps government agencies.
Like the Nixon/Connolly team, the Bush administration is responding to America's massive budget and trade deficits by letting the dollar fall--and hard --while it also tries to distract attention from its responsibility by pointing an accusing finger at China as the cause for both US joblessness and deflationary pressures.
It is also about moral responsibility, wisdom, judgment and courage – and about leveraging knowledge to promote positive social change.
A couple of years later, the Chinese company suggested that it take responsibility for procuring the parts.
The New Risks in Risk RegulationLONDON – When I took over responsibility for banking supervision in the United Kingdom, in 1995, a wise old bird in the Bank of England (BoE) warned me that I would find it a thankless task.
German foreign policy from 1890 to 1914, for which the Kaiser bore formal and intermittently actual responsibility, comprised a series of failures and setbacks.
Inaction would ignite fires throughout the Middle East, and would violate the international community’s now-accepted responsibility to protect, through timely and decisive collective action, populations at risk of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other major crimes against humanity and war crimes.
This response is understandably controversial, because it rewards those who bet on risky assets, many of whom accepted risk with open eyes and bear some responsibility for causing the crisis.
All three countries may soon be following the Danish model, in which the illiberal populist parties pledge their support without actually governing, thereby gaining power without responsibility.
As long as this is so, why not give them real political responsibility?
The responsibility to deal with them will merely fall more heavily on state and local governments, which will have to tackle them in innovative ways.
By law, immigration enforcement is the federal government’s responsibility; in practice, it lacks adequate resources.
This is not just some oversight; during all of these episodes, the Bank knew that its responsibility was to act as an advocate for its poor clients.
Instead of choosing identities that divide us, making it impossible to tackle multiplying global problems, we can shape identities that extend our sense of compassion and moral responsibility.
The mainstream view that people are wholly self-interested economic actors denies our innate capacity for reciprocity, fairness, and moral responsibility.
It is the responsibility of rulers and opinion leaders to insist that universal rights are implemented universally--that all, without exception, are subject to the rule of law.
China would counter that the US bears more responsibility for climate change, in both cumulative and per capita terms.
To be sure, the answer is not to print endless amounts of money or to relieve politicians of their responsibility to fix a broken system.
The ECB can do nothing about the overhang, and it has rightly resisted assuming responsibility for debt problems that are ultimately fiscal in nature.
The group also took responsibility for the 2007 kidnapping of the BBC’s Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston, who was later released after negotiations led by Hamas.
The Warriors of God is one of a handful of radical, al-Qaeda-inspired groups to have appeared in the Gaza Strip in recent months, first coming to public attention in June after claiming responsibility for a failed horseback attack on Israel from Gaza.
New budget legislation, along the lines of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2003, but with more teeth, needs to be instituted.
In the EU, mainstream politicians must accept some responsibility for expediently blaming “Brussels” for every problem, or for fudging the truth about what EU membership or association agreements with neighbors actually mean.
And, though Germany shares the UK’s belief that NATO bears primary responsibility for protecting Europe, its view of European engagement is even more restrictive.
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