Sentences with phrase «responsibility for certain things»

Not exact matches

In 1996 when the Texas Monthly investigated the newsletters, Paul took responsibility for them and said that certain things were taken out of context.

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

The one thing certain is that he «walked with God daily» and that his working philosophy did make him continually aware of his responsibility to «the power, not ourselves, making for righteousness»» (26).

Regardless of who steps up and accepts responsibility for the never - ending stream of delays and other issues, one thing is certain: subway riders are the ones suffering.

There is strong evidence that «sports strongly reinforce certain personal characteristics, things like respecting your opponent, responsibility, persistence and self - discipline,» says Angela Lumpkin, co-author of Sport Ethics: Applications for Fair Play (McGraw - Hill Humanities, 2002).

All jobs will obviously ask for more things than just your resume (letter of intent, cover letter, maybe even detailed accounts of your past job responsibilities), and up to a certain point all recruiters and interviewers realize that everyone uses templates for all these documents.

This is exciting but also the responsibility can be quite daunting — one thing is for certain, life as you know it has changed forever.