Ultimately, it is those governments which bear the responsibility, before their own people and the rest of the world, for making war or peace.
In tonight's Inside Out programme we've been looking at those who'll have to bear the responsibility of making that call and the pressures they're under.
Another challenge for the local contractors is that customers increasingly require them to bear the responsibility for any lawsuits filed by people who slip on icy pavements.
People take risks, they bear the responsibility for those risks, and they're supposed to learn from them and do better next time, and that's how a healthy market grows.
"Foreign creditors must bear the responsibility, " he argued.
Rotta lays a large part of the blame for the current state of Italy on Mr Berlusconi's shoulders, saying that he had to bear the responsibility for "having failed to reform the country and the market as he promised, at a time when it would have been less painful".
And this is precisely how the international community should work, as more nations bear both the responsibility and the cost of enforcing international law.
The Foreign Ministry "stresses that whoever the party that kidnapped him and whatever their motives, they bear the full responsibility to protect him and release him promptly, " the agency said.
The rich bear most of the responsibility for the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Individuals bear the primary responsibility for their own health, but government support will not hurt.
While in some countries schools bear the overwhelming responsibility for delivering education, this is not the situation in the United States.
They, and not the foreign media, bear the main responsibility for conveying China's public opinion and acting as a watchdog on its government.
While I suspect Americans will reach their own conclusions as to who should bear the greatest responsibility for security failures, if such failures are found to have existed, the issue of what the White House knew versus what they told us can be expected to dominate the conversation.
Mr Hashemi said the US should bear responsibility for the way Iraq was now being governed.
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The most recent circumstantial evidence also suggests that the Fed may bear some responsibility for the commodities boom.
Not defending the hacking in any way whatsoever: but The Guardian would seem to bear some of the responsibility for the closure of the News of the World for having got their original reporting wrong.
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To be sure, you assume myriad liabilities by directly acknowledging responsibility, yet an opportunity was nonetheless lost at the 30, 000-foot level to bear moral responsibility for the fiasco in a way that would not have legal impact.
The NFL has yet to impose penalties against individual players involved in the bounty program, but Commissioner Roger Goodell said Tuesday that they, too, bear some of the responsibility.
The Center for Security Policy today cited official German documents to rebut claims made in Washington this morning by visiting German Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher, claims to the effect that his country's officials bear no responsibility for the transfer of militarily relevant technology to Iraq.
Democratic citizens know that they must bear the burden of responsibility for their society if they are to benefit from its protection of their rights.
Bernanke gets credit for not strangling the economic recovery in its cradle, but his sub zero money market rates bear sizable responsibility for the weak dollar, commodity speculation and the inherent inflationary impact all this entails.
It can be argued that manufacturers bear some responsibility for the amount of waste rich countries produce.
Apparently this scheme attempts to have only the banks and not the government bear responsibility for debt repayment.
For one thing, he would not want to appear to bear any responsibility for the price of oil.
Russia's Foreign Ministry said Sunday that occupation forces bear full responsibility for the humanitarian situation in Iraq, including protecting cultural monuments.
As a consequence we all bear responsibility for the cultures in which we live that ultimately make and re-make who we are.
Does he feel like his campaign and his supporters bear any responsibility for the tone of the race the past few days?
As for the health and pension costs which have helped sink GM, the company and the government bear joint responsibility for those too.
But even if they do, the "Grand Compromise" should be unacceptable to those who bear, first and foremost, the responsibility for assuring the common defense -- the Nation's military leadership.
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