But the actual part -- who does what, what needs to be done -- is a state responsibility.
In 2007, however, the Howard government passed an act that allowed it to muscle in on water management in the Murray-Darling basin, constitutionally a state responsibility.
Infrastructure: Infrastructure is a state and local responsibility since the individual areas directly benefit.
Websites, in turn, have a responsibility to state clearly up front exactly what personal data they are asking users to share and what users will get in return.
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But if politicians bear a grave responsibility for the state of Japanese politics, so do voters who keep electing them.
Long before the idea took hold in the West that extending education to the masses was a responsibility of the state, the churches had come to see it as part of their mission.
But back when the NHS was set up in 1948, health was seen as a complete responsibility of the state, whereas care was means-tested, and very much the domain of the family and the local community.
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Parents and responsible adults need to be aware of many issues online, and my personal feeling has always been that this should not be a responsibility that the state assumes, it belongs in the family home.
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But in France, secondary education, a responsibility of the central state, is meant also to have the job of forming French citizens.
Ms. STEELMAN: There's a shareholder risk to holding these stocks, and as state treasurer, I believe I had a fiduciary responsibility to protect these pension funds.
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To simplify Britain's messy state pensions in a way that rewards responsibility (David Cameron's favourite abstract noun) and pays for itself would be impressive.
But states will be taking on this increased responsibility at a time when many state coffers are empty and budgets are far from balanced.
This Consultation provided UNESCO and other international organizations an opportunity to advocate provision of free basic education as a right, and the responsibility of the state towards education of its masses.
The welfare reform legislation of the 1990s was a small step in the right direction because it eliminated a federal entitlement and shifted responsibility back to the state level.
Conservative spokesperson Liz Smith said there is "no greater responsibility for the state" than being a corporate parent.
The full and phased withdrawal of Israeli military forces should be coordinated with the assumption of Palestinian security responsibility in a sovereign, non-militarized state.
With government employee pensions skyrocketing, high unemployment compensation debt and an increasing amount of taxpaying businesses fleeing the state, California is learning a hard lesson in fiscal responsibility.
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Under that law the U.S. Coast Guard has assigned responsibility to BP and Transocean, but a state-court jury, if it were allowed to hear the case, might say Halliburton is liable, too.
This represents a significant increase in the responsibility (and jurisdiction) of state securities departments and law enforcement officials.
Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin said the strategy is a ploy to escape responsibility and civil penalties for the money fund's collapse if the Bents lose a jury verdict.
The decision applies only to California, but its broader implications were clear: When a state sends a criminal to prison, it takes on the responsibility to feed and care for him, Justice Kennedy wrote.
An independent Scotland would be regarded as a completely separate state under international law, with the continuing UK retaining responsibility for all UK institutions, laws and treaties.
The other was not: the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has become a bit more optimistic about underlying state of the economy, and that has meant that the chancellor's target measure of the deficit has not increased as much as expected.
Protecting information on the Internet is a responsibility of U.S. corporations and their security tools, not the State Department.
But we also have a responsibility that when we have serious disagreements that prevent that support, we have to state our convictions clearly and offer a better course for this country.
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Although a victory for Mr Shater could burden him and his brethren with responsibility for Egypt's sorry state, defeat would shatter myths about the Brotherhood's invincibility.
"The public deserves a secretary of state on whom they can rely to be clear about what's going on, to take responsibility for his department and to provide a safe, reliable and affordable public transport system, " he said.
If remote sellers have found a temporary "hole" in state sales tax laws to escape the collection of sales taxes, it is simply the responsibility of legislators to plug it.
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