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responsible

If you are responsible for something, you did it or it happened because of something that you did. Are you saying that he was responsible for the death of your wife? The company was partly responsible for the success of the original product. This diet is largely responsible for our fatter population. it is unfair to hold one football coach responsible for the school's partying problems. If you are responsible, you make good decisions and make sure that important things get done. She will be a good leader for this organization because she is very responsible. We need to come up with environmentally responsible energy sources. Many products claim to be socially responsible, such as "fair trade" coffee. If you are responsible for something, you are the person who must fix things that go wrong. I'm responsible for looking after these three buildings. Parents are responsible for their children. He understands the need to be personally responsible for the changes.

responsible

worthy of or requiring responsibility or trust; or held accountable a responsible adult responsible journalism a responsible position the captain is responsible for the ship's safety the cabinet is responsible to the parliament (= responsible for) being the agent or cause determined who was the responsible party termites were responsible for the damage having an acceptable credit rating a responsible borrower

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Simple sentences

He is the minister responsible for the environment.
You're not responsible for Tom anymore.
She is responsible.
I'm a reliable and responsible person at work.
Politicians are mere puppets. That does not make them less responsible for their deeds, though.
He was responsible for the death of your father.
It seems to me that Tom is responsible for Mary's nervous breakdown.
I request that Tom be held responsible for his wicked deeds.
Blindness is responsible for a staggering toll of poor health, suffering, and loss of dignity and diminution in the quality of lives of people worldwide.
You are responsible for what you do.
You are responsible for what you have done.
We are, in large measure, responsible for students' success in the entrance exam.
The driver is responsible for the safety of the passengers.
Beth is unqualified for such a responsible post.
A bus driver is responsible for the safety of the passengers.
That would lead to the production of more carbon dioxide, the main gas responsible for global warming.
If that is true, then he is not responsible for the accident.
They hold me responsible for it.
We think that the narrow road was responsible for the accident.
It is I that am responsible for the accident.
She is responsible for this broken window.
Who is ultimately responsible for this?
You should be responsible for your actions.
You are responsible for the result.
You are in part responsible for it.
If the machine is damaged, you are responsible.
Now that you are a high school student, you are responsible for what you do.

Movie subtitles

Do you know how many people I am responsible for?
The responsible individual must have recovered the power quite well.
Who's responsible for doing that to you?
Dad, I have been pretending to be this responsible family man, but the truth is, I spend a lot of time partying with Cooper and his friends.
You were doing what any responsible motorist would.
Mr. Stoddard discovered who was responsible for the poisonings.
Sir, he may be responsible for a man's disappearance.
French Republic (Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood) Police Department Security service Paris, June 5th, 1911 The inspector Juve is responsible for the inquiry concerning the disappearance of Lord Beltham.
If you don't let me go, you'll be responsible for whatever happens to your daughter.
Oh. Well, you're n ot responsible for your father, hmm?
He was responsible for finding the princess.
Heaven help me if I ever get my hands on the scoundrel responsible for that fellow's condition!
You know, do you not, that it is you, really, who are responsible for all those murders?
Say, who is responsible for installing me in this telephone booth?
Providing you several all connection with Oliver Hardy, whom your Uncle felt is responsible for your deplorable condition.
I'll try him out, and I'll be responsible.
Be sure to be with somebody responsible in case any questions are asked.
Do you mean to say Mr Chang is responsible for this outrage?
I hold you responsible.
Count de la Gardie. you are responsible for His Excellency's safety.
For the share due my men, I make myself responsible.
But I was responsible, sir.
I'll be responsible for them.
I felt sort of responsible.
No jury will hold you responsible.
You saying you don't control what you sell? We can't be held responsible for every sandwich that we sell!
He's not responsible!
In season two, Derek definitely has more responsibility, having to be in charge and responsible for these three lives that he's kind of, I guess, in a way created.
You were adjusting your rear-view mirror. You were doing what any responsible motorist would.
I was responsible, personally, for arranging these men to have the dignity of Dubarry.
His majesty can not make me responsible for the wrath of the people.
You can't hold one person responsible.
You'll see who's held responsible.
If she does, I'll be responsible.
If you have no address or no one to be responsible for you the law won't let me be lenient.
But seriously, I feel somehow personally responsible.

News and current affairs

He could hardly have been held responsible for the hubris which led to the avalanche of 1973, yet it nonetheless brought him down as well.
It is tempting to believe that renewable energy sources are responsible for emissions reductions, but the numbers clearly say otherwise.
If each US state were totally responsible for its own budget, including paying all unemployment benefits, America, too, would be in fiscal crisis.
When it occasionally does, even for a short interval - as UN Resolution 1701 for cessation of hostilities in Lebanon seems to be holding - it is time to take stock of events in the hopes that a responsible debate may influence those in power.
We feel responsible, on a global level, for the environment, which is why we disagree with unilateral decisions by individual nations when such decisions ignore the needs of the rest of the world.
In a fast changing world, this skepticism of the center is the only sensible attitude a responsible political party and government can strike.
The US is largely responsible for the failure of the Doha Round of global trade talks.
In cases of extreme rights abuses, the chance that an international criminal tribunal will ultimately sit in judgment of those principally responsible is growing, thereby becoming a deterrent to would-be tyrants elsewhere.
MELBOURNE - If the broad post-World War II prosperity that has endured for six decades comes to an end, both the United States and Europe will be responsible.
But US policy choices are responsible for the erosion of America's competitiveness.
An armed attack could also cause the Iranian public to rally around the government, reducing the chances that a more responsible leadership might emerge.
He does at least recognize that only Argentina is responsible for the bad policy choices that led to today's morass.
What, then, is responsible for global warming so far?
The Mujahideen were overseen by responsible clerics, who gave a shining example to Saudi youth.
But, while putting the ECB in charge of banking supervision solves one problem, it creates another: can national authorities still be held responsible for saving banks that they no longer supervise?
On the other hand, the Court cannot charge - or refrain from charging - a senior political or military official responsible for grave crimes solely to avert negative political repercussions.
But it is condescending to refuse to hold many of them partly responsible for their own plight.
The EFSF would be responsible for dealing with fiscal crises in member states.
More than any other event of our era, that violent coup was responsible for launching both the contemporary global movement for human rights and the American movement to promote human rights internationally.
The shift in thinking was triggered by the revised deficit forecasts recently published by the Congressional Budget Office, the independent technical agency responsible for advising Congress on budget issues.
It deflects attention away from those truly responsible for perpetuating the greatest saving shortfall in history.
Once they resolve to continue their alliance with these purposes in mind, it should be possible for responsible officials to work out guiding principles for concrete security cooperation.
It is and would be wrong to make opposition to terrorism the centerpiece of what responsible governments do in the world.
They acknowledge that Africa is bearing the brunt of the economic and climate crises, even though it was least responsible for creating them.

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