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However, Gold put the onus on herself and other more established women.

UNO puts such an onus on smoking students that it ultimately seems like a bully, even more than a nanny.

Asked about funding public libraries, Osborne put the onus of responsibility on local councils.

The onus is on one man to hold this wacky goulash of punditry together: Mike Tirico.

Trying to put the onus onto someone else for your own decisions is really cowardly and kind of dishonest.

On him, and on him alone, falls the crushing onus of responsibility: to be a Corps Commander is child's play in that comparison.

Nor is it enough that science can urge nothing in disproof—the onus probandi lies with those who affirm.

If the record were received generally by any nation, the onus probandi would in that case lie with those who impugned it.

Nullum detractavimus onus, quod sine scelere suspici posset.

Ueruntamen hoc onus humeris filii sui moriturus apposuit: qui cum deuota assercione, illud sibi suscepit.

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On this page you'll find 77 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to onus, such as: blame, blot, blur, brand, charge, and culpability.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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