What is "responsibilities"

Usage examples of "responsibilities".

Although all of the security services have slightly different formal missions, they also have overlapping and redundant responsibilities, and all of them have at least some internal security functions.

As such it has all of the intelligence, counterintelligence, and covert action responsibilities of other foreign intelligence agencies.

It is not to be wondered at that people crave office, some salaried position, in order to escape the anxieties, the personal responsibilities, of a single-handed struggle with the world.

Neither the writers nor the artists have a due sense of the responsibilities of their creations.

What made it possible has been a precious year away from the responsibilities of being head of a busy university teaching department, and which I could therefore devote entirely to research, through the generosity of the Wolfson Foundation.

I decided to spend a good part of the years 1989 and 1990, during which I had a research grant which would buy me out from a lot of teaching and administrative responsibilities, tackling the question.

He built multiple agencies with redundant missions and responsibilities to ensure that nothing would be missed, and to create rivalries that would allow him to play one group off against another.

The division of responsibilities between Military Security and the Istikhbarat is unclear.

The redundancy, overlapping responsibilities, wide-ranging writs, and fierce rivalries among the security services make it hard to conceal a coup for long, which is why the vast majority have failed.

How healthy is that for the kids--not to mention a history of infidelity and dishonesty, not to mention a new top management position with new responsibilities and new pressures?

We agreed to share all major decisions and responsibilities, and to consult with each other on all matters relating to the kids.

To do otherwise would be to abjure our responsibilities as human beings.

Home Office and because of her dedication spent most of her time actively involved in criminal investigations, but there had been no empty days because of her lecturing and teaching responsibilities as the professor of forensic psychology at an outside university with its outside demands and outside distractions.

Indeed, he looked like some enthusiastic university second-year student, and much of the animosity he encountered stemmed from the fact that he appeared insultingly youthful to be exercising the great responsibilities given him.

This gave him no added perquisites, only additional responsibilities, but when difficult problems arose, or confrontations with the high command, they expected him to make the first statements and then to defend them.