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One example is “shared responsibility” mortgages, in which payments are reduced under certain circumstances, such as when home prices dip below the borrower’s purchase price.
Indeed, as a regional power, it has a responsibility to work to ease tensions and promote conflict resolution.
That is a thin legal basis for establishing a pan-European supervisor with direct responsibility for individual institutions, and it was clearly not intended for that purpose.
The details differ, but the idea is the same: creditors are shifting the entire burden of adjustment onto debtors, while the “center” avoids its own responsibility for the imbalances.
Yet, in the euro crisis, the center’s responsibility is even greater than it was in 1982 or 1997: it designed a flawed currency system and failed to correct the defects.
They are questions of justice and responsibility, and stronger regional and international institutions are needed to address them.
Liu's trial was the result of a political order for which you carry ultimate political responsibility.”
Pakistani leaders obviously bear a heavy responsibility for this state of affairs.
Trump’s cabinet members and high-level appointees share collective responsibility for propping up a shameful presidency.
As a consequence, the developing world’s representatives argue, the advanced countries should take responsibility for the problem.
But a simple shift of responsibility to the advanced countries by exempting developing countries from the mitigation process will not work.
Conflict between advanced and developing countries over responsibility for mitigating carbon emissions should not be allowed to undermine prospects for a global agreement.
And in its policy statements and actions, it has refused to acknowledge its broader responsibility for the stability of the world economy.
If US policymakers are worried about these issues, their only option is to agree to quota increases for the IMF, thereby allowing responsibility for international financial stability to migrate back to where it belongs: the hands of a legitimate international organization.
For its part, the international community, which so often has propped up authoritarian regimes in the name of stability (or on the principle that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”) has a clear responsibility to provide whatever assistance Tunisia needs in the coming months and years.
Dealt a difficult hand, Spain can overcome its critical situation only through collective hard work, responsibility, respect, and loyalty, thereby ensuring its standing in Europe and beyond.
As a result, Israel ceded to the US and others responsibility to move the Iranian regime from its current path.
It is not easy to describe the enormous level of responsibility I feel.
While this responsibility often lets others become “free riders,” the alternative is no ride for anyone.
Giving a person like King responsibility in managing Jerusalem means increasing tensions within the city, aggravating the Palestinian population’s greatest fears, and encouraging Israeli settlers to develop new outposts, thereby erecting new obstacles to peace.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has overall responsibility for the UN’s disaster-relief efforts, and its activities should be guided by the four principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence.
In fact, the UN’s Humanitarian Response Program for Syria stipulates that “the Government of Syria bears the primary responsibility for protecting its citizens.”
Another possibility would be to transfer responsibility for humanitarian aid in conflict zones to an NGO that is not under the same pressure to respect the sovereignty of internationally recognized regimes.
The digital divide is ending not through a burst of civic responsibility, but mainly through market forces.
But, on another level, the attempt to rate government alongside business and the media is fundamentally misguided: no sector operates at the scale of responsibility, accountability, and expectation that governments do.
The United States cannot and must not give up this obligation, which is a very specific and extreme manifestation of its responsibility for the world.
Instead of succumbing to destructive populism and dishonorable isolationism, Europe’s leaders must commit to fulfilling their legal and moral responsibility to help the refugees – and, of course, to explain to their citizens why this is so important.
With the number of displaced people now at levels unseen since World War II, Europe has a responsibility to recall its history.
In this context, the army, seeking to avoid sole responsibility for reverses, wants a popular government to take charge of policy.
Their deaths are the sole responsibility of the military junta, which deliberately and with knowledge of the likely consequences has closed the door to humanitarian aid and workers from all over the world.
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