Unpleasant responsibility

Usage examples of onus.

I heard something in there about Boariyi waiving the onus of vengeance.

The onus of vengeance had not been waived for anyone, only for this match.

Now the onus was hers, and they both knew it, and the broadcast audience knew it.

I ask thee to take time to consider, and if thou dost conclude against, I will have no onus against thee.

The onus was still on the Chief, because it belonged to the last form change, but the minute started fresh from the moment of that change.

All he had had to do was maintain roc form and fly away, and the Chief, stuck with the onus, would have lost in one minute.

But most important, we shall be free at last from the onus a cruel society unfairly placed on us.

We are naturally hesitant to press the French too strongly or to become deeply involved so long as we are not in a position to suggest a solution or until we are prepared to accept the onus of intervention.

To their credit, neither parent ever slapped Joel with the onus of being adopted and they always thought of him as their son.

It seemed to him that he could be rid of the boy and the wretched onus of braids and rosettes all in one stroke.

This is getting us nowhere, so we shall leave the onus on the well-meaning but dogmatic head of Jorkins Brassard.

But with the war ended, Lincoln has conferred diplomatic immunity upon him, and molesting him would only rouse fresh hostilities-with the onus of guilt for them upon us.

He took on himself the onus of having advised our action, and he gave me all the credit of having proposed that we should make a clean breast of everything.

I cannot see the slightest reason why the Irish labourer is to be relieved from the real onus, or from anything else but the name of tithe.

God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.