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- Victims take an active role in the process, while offenders are encouraged to take responsibility for their actions, "to repair the harm they've done – by apologizing, returning stolen money, or community service".
- Asquith's wartime coalition government in May 1915, as Secretary of State for India, but resigned to take responsibility for the disastrous Kut Campaign.
- In some cases, measures that a government does not want to take responsibility for may be introduced by backbenchers, with the government secretly or openly backing the measure and ensuring its passage.
- Policy implementation is establishing or employing an organisation to take responsibility for the policy, making sure the organisation has the resources/legal authority to do so, in addition to making sure the policy is carried out as planned.
- In 2002, The Yes Men issued a fake press release explaining why Dow refused to take responsibility for the disaster and started up a website, at "DowEthics.com", designed to look like the real Dow website, but containing hoax information.
- A willingness to participate in a group can indicate a person's interest as well as their willingness to take responsibility for how the group performs.
- The city was the setting for the 2007 movie "Ashita e no yuigon" (translated as "Best Wishes for Tomorrow"), in which a Japanese war criminal sets out to take responsibility for the execution of U.S.
- Louis's Gateway Foundation, which agreed to take responsibility for the cost of the equipment, its installation, and its upkeep.
- Stanton refused to take responsibility for the $10,000 debt the newspaper had accumulated, saying she had children to support.
- In 1946, the government agreed to acquire the island and to take responsibility for it.
- DPP chairman Su Tseng-chang had promised to resign to take responsibility for the defeat.
- After the Department of Marine and Fisheries was split into separate departments, the Department of Marine continued to take responsibility for the federal government's coastal protection services.
- His planned to practice law, but his father's death required Butler to take responsibility for managing the family farm, rather than attending law school.
- Rather than relying on the traditional buddy diving safety system, solo divers rely on self-sufficiency and are willing to take responsibility for their own safety while diving.
- The phrase "washing one's hands of" something, means declaring one's unwillingness to take responsibility for the thing or share complicity in it.
- After initially refusing to take responsibility for the incident he apologized the next day.
- Hashimoto resigned to take responsibility for this failure, and was succeeded as LDP president and Prime Minister by Foreign Minister Keizō Obuchi.
- Milgram attempted to explain how ordinary people were capable of performing potentially lethal acts against other human beings by suggesting that participants may have entered into an agentic state, where they allowed the authority figure to take responsibility for their own actions.
- , and the president resigned to take responsibility for it.
- When team members do not commit to a decision, they will be unwilling to take responsibility for the outcomes of the decision.
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