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No one seemed to know for sure what had happened, nor was there any purpose or responsibility in the muttering feet and urgent voices behind the driver, beyond finding out.
At the same time, all suggestions that some sort of societal responsibility existed for the welfare of the people within the territorial state was strongly resisted.
The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.
In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.
National responsibility for individual welfare is a concept not limited to the United States or even to the Western nations.
For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.
It forced us to fix the responsibility for the position in which all medical commentators had been placed.
Because the responsibility for resolving the issue lay with the President, rather than with his doctors, nothing raises more surely for us the difficulties simple goodness faces in dealing with complex moral problems under political pressure.
But the fact remains that even the unconscious acceptance of himself as a man of destiny divinely protected must be censored in any man who evades the responsibility for his major decisions, and thus for imposing his will on the people.
Relieved of the major part of his responsibility for the safety of the ship, the pilot's oaths became fewer.
Each will decide on his own course somewhere between these two extreme cases according to the sense of responsibility which is determined for him by the particular circumstances of his own life.
There is indeed a moral responsibility on man himself, for his own soul's sake, to respect lower life and to avoid the infliction of suffering, but this viewpoint Schweitzer rejects.
Our data indicate that these students of today do basically accept the existing institutions of the society, and, in the face of the realities of complex and large-scale economic and political problems, make a wary and ambivalent delegation of trust to those who occupy positions of legitimized responsibility for coping with such collective concerns.
In fact I cannot imagine myself condemning a man to the noose or the electric chair if I had to take, as an individual, the responsibility for his death.
Certainly all can applaud passage of an auto title law, the school bills, the increase in teacher pensions, the ban on drag racing, acceptance by the state of responsibility for maintenance of state roads in municipalities at the same rate as outside city limits, repeal of the college age limit law and the road maintenance bond issue.
Mayor Robert F. Wagner must, as his opponents demand, assume responsibility for his performance in office.
The responsibility is still going to be there whether they pay for a VA hospital or the tax dollar is spent for the state hospital.
The Illinois Commission for Handicapped Children, which for 20 years has had the responsibility of coordinating the services of tax supported and voluntary organizations serving handicapped children, of studying the needs of handicapped children in Illinois, and of promoting more adequate services for them, indeed welcomes this new important resource which will help the people of Illinois toward the goal of providing an education for all of its children.

responsibility and deaths
An enraged Jenny threatens Randall at gun point, attempting to force him to take responsibility for the deaths of her mother and father, but Philip shows up and calms her down.
Three months later, he resigned accepting moral and constitutional responsibility for a railway accident at Ariyalur in Tamil Nadu that resulted in 144 deaths.
Mengistu himself has acknowledged that the Derg ordered these deaths, but refuses to accept personal responsibility.
The Pemmican Proclamation, the ensuing Battle of Seven Oaks in 1816, and its violence, resulted in Lord Selkirk arresting William McGillivray and several North West Company proprietors, seizing their outpost property in Fort William and charging them with responsibility for the deaths of twenty-one people at Seven Oaks.
They found the notes he left, in which he denied responsibility of the deaths of his wife and mother-in-law.
In 2006, he was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment by the Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ) in the Netherlands for failing to prevent the deaths of five and the mistreatment of eleven Bosnian Serb detainees during the period from late 1992 to early 1993 on the basis of superior criminal responsibility.
Inside the Hogsmeade tavern, Harry overhears Cornelius Fudge discussing Sirius Black's responsibility for Harry's parents ' deaths, as well as for the death of another Hogwarts student, Peter Pettigrew, who was blown to bits, leaving only a finger.
She was convicted of manslaughter due to diminished responsibility in the deaths of toddlers Martin Brown and Brian Howe.
Media outlets alleged that Michael Peter Woroniecki, a traveling preacher whom Rusty had met while attending Auburn University, bears some responsibility for the deaths due to his “ fire and brimstone ” message and certain teachings found in his newsletter The Perilous Times that they had received on occasion and which was entered into evidence at the trial.
That year it was also given responsibility for health and welfare services, and for the use of the Welsh language in the registration of births, marriages and deaths.
After the accession of Evo Morales, rumors began to abound about serious efforts being made to bring Carlos Mesa to trial for a number of alleged misdeeds, including responsibility for the deaths of protesters, both under his administration and that of Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada ( with whom he served as Vice-President ); for economic mismanagement and corruption ; and even for having mulled a " self-coup " in order to temporarily suspend constitutional rights and bring order to the country with the help of the military.
According to Finnish sources, proof for Oesch ’ s personal responsibility for these deaths was rather dubious.
Government officials have longstanding political and business ties to DTE ," ( 5 ) " Extreme poverty and mass unemployment are decisive factors in deadly house fires ," ( 6 ) " Sylvia Young, the mother of the three children killed in the Bangor Street fire, has been wrongly victimized ," and ( 7 ) " DTE Energy, its executives and regulating agencies bear primary responsibility for the deaths of Marvin Allen, Tyrone Allen, Lynn Greer, and the three Young children.
Although Sanders did not claim responsibility for any of the deaths, lawyers for Williams believed that the evidence will help their bid for a new trial for Williams.
Royal added that " the responsibility of any religious leader " is to " defend the principle of life, and certainly not to urge human beings towards their deaths.
Following the deaths of all the Cayuse children and half their adults from a measles epidemic in 1847, in which the Cayuse suspected the Whitmans ' responsibility, they killed the Whitmans and 12 other settlers in what became known as the Whitman Massacre.
The authors, William Putnam, a former president of the Alpine Club, and Andy Kaufman, a former director, relied on a Durrance diary that surfaced for the first time fifty years after the event to place responsibility for the deaths on Wiessner.
With no group claiming responsibility for the deaths, Bond focuses on Laura's case as an entrée to tracking the murderous spree.
Hamas and the al-Aqsa Martyr Brigades claimed joint responsibility for the blasts, stating they were in retaliation for recent members deaths in Jenin.
This explanation however is widely disputed, among others, the executive director of Human Rights Watch has stated that: “ we place direct responsibility for the civilian deaths with Karabakh Armenian forces.
Carhart stated that he received a note the morning after the fire claiming responsibility and likening the deaths of his animals to the " murder of children ".
At first they suspect the Doctor and Sarah of responsibility for the deaths of the expedition members, but the culprit is eventually revealed to be a creature from a universe of antimatter, retaliating for the removal by Sorenson of some antimatter samples from around the pit that acts as an interface between the two universes.
There was formerly some controversy over the responsibility for the deaths of Beryl Evans and her daughter Geraldine, who, along with Beryl's husband Timothy, were tenants at 10 Rillington Place during 1948 and 1949.
All suspicious, sudden and accidental deaths must be reported to the procurator fiscal, and they have a responsibility to identify if any criminal action has occurred and, where appropriate, prosecute.

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