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make responsible for
verb as in commit
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Example Sentences
She said the case boils down to “how courts think about how to balance rights that might be in competition” and “the policy choice of who we make responsible for intoxicated violence.”
Further complicating matters, the public body that Initiative 65 would make responsible for regulating medical marijuana, Mississippi’s Board of Health, not only has reservations about the medical justification for legalizing the drug but says it doesn’t want to be put in charge.
When once he was dead, and his heritage fell to his nine-year-old son Henry III., whom none could make responsible for his father’s doings, the whole aspect of affairs was changed.
Destiny.—The scape-goat which we make responsible for all our crimes and follies; a necessity which we set down for invincible, when we have no wish to strive against it.—Mrs.
In Austria, the law goes to the opposite, though certainly more reasonable, extreme, and permits even the mother who has had several lovers to select for herself which she chooses to make responsible for her child.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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