In considering the subject of fiction, the responsibility of the writers thereof is a matter worth pointing out.
The responsibility is in the school, whose growing enrollment and influence tell their own story.
They had been despots during all of their teaching lives, and the idea of handing the discipline and a lot of the responsibility of the school over to the girls hurt them dreadfully, but they have tried it and found that it works.
The extra work and responsibility stimulated their mental activity, increased their power of attention, fostered thoroughness and accuracy, developed resourcefulness and initiative, and those other qualities necessary for leadership.
Where else, then, does the responsibility for such growth and development rest than upon the school?
We there endeavoured to show that it denies the responsibility of man, and makes God the author of sin.
The attempts of Calvin and Luther to reconcile the scheme of necessity with the responsibility of man.
Such an idea of personal identity is as utterly unintelligible as the nature of the sin and the responsibility with which it is so intimately associated.
But if the deeds proceed from the will, then it at once attaches a responsibility to them.
But the same doctrine, when applied to establish a fixed and unalterable relation between the causes of volition and volition itself, really demolishes all responsibility for volition, and consequently for its external results.
We have seen how ineffectual have been all their endeavours to show that their doctrine does not destroy the responsibilityof man for his sins.
It was a fondness that led him to wink at his faults even when they became flagrant, and that desired to see him occupying a place of honour and responsibility for which he certainly was far from qualified.
The occasion might well awaken mingled emotions in his breast--gratitude for mercies given and solicitude for the responsibility of a royal position.
It was an audacious attempt to throw on Joab and Joab's master the responsibility of the war.
Certainly the general opinion among the depositors is, that the nation is responsible; they are not aware that they have only the responsibility of the trustees to rely upon.
There are four or five single ladies on board, on all of whom I have promised to keep a watchful eye, and I shall be delighted to be relieved of the responsibility of two of them.
Mr. Renshaw, finding the whole responsibility of the farm upon his shoulders, had been obliged to put aside his books and to throw himself into the business with vigour.
I daresay he will be rather glad to have the responsibility taken off his hands, especially if I propose, which I will if you like, to take you under my general charge.
It is putting great responsibility on your shoulders, my boy," she said; "for I do not disguise from myself that it is upon you that we must principally depend.
They mean the sense of responsibility which aids a student in forming habits of temperance and industry.
But in the slight confusion which I have to admit had for a moment prevailed, a metathesis had taken place: from being third squad we had become fourth, which position carried with it the responsibility of leading the second platoon.
America was the first to give official recognition to King Leopold's enterprise in 1884, and so has the responsibility of having actually put him into that position which he has so dreadfully abused.
Again: "The responsibility for these abuses must not, however, always be placed upon the commanders of military expeditions.
That the Judicature is powerless to place the real responsibility on the proper shoulders.
In spite of legal quibbles, it is an insult to common sense to suppose that the responsibility for the Congo has not always rested with Belgium.
Where did the responsibility for these deeds of blood, these thousands of cold-blooded murders lie?
Caudron's counsel called for the production of official documents to show how the chain of responsibility went, but the President of the Appeal Court refused it, knowing as clearly as we do, that it could only conduct to the Throne itself.
Next point dealt with was responsibility--maintaining that responsibility lay not so much in the individual as in the system.
Nlekani left a number of sons, but none of them were willing to take the responsibility of the Medal Chieftainship.
But responsibility cannot be so easily shaken off.
Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government.
Whether he was at first fully aware of his new responsibility is very doubtful.
As so often happens in history at the decisive turn of events, the leadership was taken by a very small group of men who made up their minds at once, assumed responsibility and changed the course of the ship of state.
He assumed responsibility and claimed credit for the measures that had permitted "to dissipate before their explosion plots engendering on the Mississippi.
I should certainly feel a responsibility of all my son's debts, and the one to his wife and daughter in particular.
It is certainly a fearful responsibility for a parent to assume of forcing a child to such alternatives.
So long, however, as people regard marriage more as a contract than a relation, each party will be anxious to throw the responsibility for the rupture upon the other.
But responsibility for the supreme act, the addition of foreign territory to the national domain, must be assumed solely by the Administration.
Responsibility for Erskine's actions was easily disavowed through the explanation that he had exceeded his instructions.
Years after, he said that he desired no other inscription on his gravestone than, "Here lies John Adams, who took upon himself the responsibility of the peace with France, in 1800.
A dispute arose between writers of the two countries over the responsibility of England for American slavery by having fostered it in the American colonies.
Part Two, section VII through section XXV, gives vehicle maintenance instructions to using arm personnel charged with the responsibility of doing maintenance work within their jurisdiction.
Regular scheduled maintenance inspections and services are a preventive maintenance function of the using arms, and are the responsibility of commanders of operating organizations.
Replacements and repairs which are the responsibility of ordnance maintenance personnel may be performed by using arm personnel when circumstances permit, within the discretion of the commander concerned.
When I insisted that the child should not be bandaged, she rebelled outright, and said she would not take the responsibility of nursing a child without a bandage.
In the absence of General Washington and his superior officer, he took the responsibility of firing into the Vulture, a suspicious looking British vessel that lay at anchor near the opposite bank of the Hudson River.
So I laid my ballot in his hand, saying that I had the same right to vote that any man present had, and on him must rest the responsibility of denying me my rights of citizenship.
But on the mother-soul rest forever the care and responsibility of human life.
This book must give every American citizen a feeling of deeper responsibility than ever before to act well his part.
The love of children is not strong in most men, and they feel but little responsibility in regard to them.
I, "lay on their shoulders the responsibility of governing, and they would soon become as mild and conservative as you seem to be.
Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility for the poverty of others.
The responsibility rested heavily on the heads of the chief actors, and they reported troubled dreams and unduly early rising.
After a few days of rest I started, alone, for my new home, quite happy with the responsibility of repairing a house and putting all things in order.
I feel a terrible responsibilityin having brought Miss Auriol here.
The work of a public executioner is unpleasant work, though of course no moral responsibility attaches to it.
The responsibility rests with Hanson and myself, who discussed the man's case and decided what was to be done with him.
He liked to wonder where on earth they would have been without him, and to feel his sense of responsibility increased.
The responsibility (and the total cost) of this function falls upon Britain.
I saw nothing leading me to doubt his full responsibility in the murder.
On the girls' part they were mentioned merely as "all in the day's work," and with the tacit simplicity of that common mortal responsibility which is heroic.
Mr. Filene resolved that, as a large consumer, he and his class had no right to shirk their responsibility by passively acquiescing in sweat-shop conditions.
In the same way, in the course of her seasonal work, family responsibility pressed on Rita Karpovna.
When I sat down beside the waters of the beautiful channel to which Providence in its goodness had been pleased to direct my steps, I felt more than I had ever done in my life, the responsibility of the task I had undertaken.
The day has gone by for either dull responsibility or merely witty art.
Hatherleigh's mind progressed by huge leaps, leaps that were usually wildly inaccurate, and for a time we engaged hotly upon the topic of those alleged mutilations and the Semitic responsibility for decency.
The commonweal is one man's absolute estate and responsibility no more.
It contained a great deal of hard work and a great deal of responsibility and a great deal of drudgery; but it had its compensations.
Always a man of thrifty disposition, he had shirked the responsibility and expense of matrimony until he had attained the ripe age of forty.
His passionate sense of responsibilitytoward his pupils made him load himself with burdens to which he was constantly physically unequal, and fill the vacations almost as full as the terms.
And as to vice--the vice that comes of mere endless persecuting opportunity--I can tell you one's ideas of personal responsibility get a good deal shaken up by a place like this!
The responsibility is too great; one can but follow the beaten path, cling to the one thread.
I had gone up to ask after them all, and came on to you,--of course on my own responsibility entirely!
He was not prepared to take the responsibility of them.
Then I went to the office with a mind cleared of responsibility and comfortably pervaded with the glow of good intentions.
The circumstances had its value though; it lightened all responsibility for the lady concerned.
With this reserve of criticism on Cecily's part, however, we got on very tolerably, largely because I found it impossible to assume any responsibility towards her, and in moments of doubt or discipline referred her to her aunts.
To explain why would be to explain British India, but I hope it will appear; and I am quite willing, remember, to take the responsibility if it does not.
Wilcox, of course, never explains an order, but the reason for having only one operator on the job is simply to concentrate responsibility on that one man.
