Was her sin in bearing a child out of wedlock more terrible than that of the married woman who shudders at the responsibilities of motherhood, or evades the travail of love's fulfilment by snuffing out little lives in embryo?
Never before had any one man such grave responsibilities put upon him, and I knew it and it worried me beyond degree.
Here were more superhuman responsibilities placed on my shoulders, making me absolutely responsible for every trouble that might arise.
Although Tom was very much interested in his plot against the robbers, he had not forgotten the responsibilities resting upon him, and he had kept a bright lookout for their pursuers.
It was not an easy one, but Sam had, of late, been accustomed to hard beds and hard pillows, and he slept soundly in spite of the new responsibilities resting upon him.
His destitution of these patriarchal indispensables is the more afflicting, when we consider his faithful discharge of responsibilities to his household, though so deplorably destitute of the needful aids.
Christians of the south would ponder these things in their hearts, and awake to the vast responsibilities which rest upon them at this important crisis.
Equality of natural rights, deriving from nature-based cycles, is quite different from equality of political rights and responsibilities deriving from a machine-inspired model for progress.
Literacy was appropriate for the transfer of know-how, as it was for the maintenance of family-based values and successive assumption of responsibilities regarding the family, moreover the community.
It is an act in itself, with its own goal, with no implicit commitment to offspring, and thus different in its intrinsic set of responsibilities and their connection to the social contract.
Don't let your responsibilitieslean out over the railing, you two.
This feeling, however, gradually wore away, as I learned that Marion's plan not only meant a pecuniary saving, but also a freedom from many responsibilities and worries inseparable from the lot of the ordinary farmer.
I awoke to my responsibilitiesand made a sickly attempt to look gratified.
Mrs. Asshlin was fluttered by the responsibilities of the moment.
It is not every day that human responsibilities fall to an old bachelor of my age.
She swept them aside unconcernedly, and proceeded with an inborn tact--an inborn sense of the responsibilities of her position--to fill her role of hostess and entertain her guest.
Jane Porter took a more serious view of the responsibilities of authorship than her sister.
It makes him understand that while life is full of opportunities for him, it's full of responsibilities toward the other fellow, too.
Adversity brings necessity for overwork, duties are manifold, and responsibilities are heavy.
Removal to strange locality and new scenes, the influence of strangers, the abandonment of all responsibilities and duties, and the atmosphere of obedience, routine, and discipline are all beneficial.
Rich men, just because they have the money, take upon their shoulders huge domestic responsibilities in which there is no object, and which it is probable the next generation will refuse to carry.
Of course, his responsibilities have been heavy, though of late years he's been able to shift some of them to other people's shoulders.
If I didn't, theresponsibilities would be "up to me.
The justices declined to answer the questions, and the Administration had to face its responsibilities on its own judgment of its rights and duties.
Had that forecast been fulfilled, the Sovereign to-day might be confronted with personal responsibilities of Ministerial selection which would have recalled the duty devolved upon her during earlier portions of her reign.
This good man and patriotic citizen did not live to witness the active assumption of educational responsibilities by the County and Borough Councils from which, not vainly, he hoped great things.
Till 1833, the educational responsibilities of the State practically were ignored.
This early acquaintance with the responsibilities of life exerts a sobering influence on the most constitutionally volatile of Eton or Harrow striplings.
Thus, in the last thirteen years, the money responsibilitiesof the nation have been reduced by one hundred millions.
President Arthur soon showed his appreciation of the responsibilities of his new office.
To some not accustomed to the excitements and responsibilities of greater freedom our methods may in some respects and at some points seem heroic, but remedies may be heroic and yet be remedies.
From his senior year in college to the present day he has borne the anxieties and responsibilities of authorship.
Thus the twenty-one acted; and, as actions speak louder than words, so actions under such responsibilities speak still louder.
The Library of a Lover THE responsibilities of a book reviewer, always heavy, sometimes assume a gravity which makes it quite impossible for them to be borne on any single pair of shoulders.
So far we have found the business of being a father hard enough without assuming the responsibilities of "The Guide" as well.
He, however, early showed a disposition to take responsibilities and to seize opportunities to fight the enemy.
He was preparing himself for the responsibilities of the high position and believed it well to make a study of America.
A stranger studying the face would hear with incredulity the story of the responsibilities and dangers which that face had confronted.
Would you neglect your sacred responsibilities for duties no one would demand of a mother?
Probably the new responsibilities imposed upon him as Primate of the English Church pressed upon his conscience.
He knew that newresponsibilities and duties would be imposed upon him, which, if he discharged conscientiously like Anselm, would in all probability alienate his friend the King, and provoke a desperate contest.
If I survive you, which at one time didn’t seem likely, this property and its responsibilities must come to me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "responsibilities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
