• Bishop Walter Mixa had also been under pressure over allegations of financial irregularities at a children's school under his responsibility.

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  • Organized under the responsibility of the UNESCO-IHP network, the Regional Consultations are a fundamental component of the Groundwater Governance project.

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  • Organized under the responsibility of the UNESCO-IHP (International Hydrological Programme) network, the regional consultations are a fundamental component of the Groundwater Governance project.

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  • "I don't have very much patience with people who don't step up to the plate in terms of addressing problems that are under their responsibility, " Gates said.

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  • Even so, the Welsh Assembly Government has issued very specific instructions as to exactly what services fall under whose responsibility - precisely to end this sort of unseemly wrangling where the patient is the one who ends up losing out.

    BBC: Caerphilly mother's terminally ill care funding despair

  • Congressional members also asked Alexander how he envisioned working out an attack by a separate country or a non-U.S.-based group, which directed the attack though U.S.-based computers, putting the electronic strike under the responsibility of DHS and raising privacy issues for U.S. citizens.

    CNN: U.S. won't militarize cyberspace, nominee says

  • Councils would also have more responsibility under the new regime - which would mean better planning decisions, argued Mr Clark.

    BBC: Minister denies shift on planning policy proposals

  • "Schools have a responsibility under law to ensure children are insulated from political activity and campaigning in the classroom, " said a Department for Education spokesperson.

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  • He could say that while he disagreed with the court's decision, the justices had the responsibility under our system to decide whether the law was constitutional.

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  • The action, under the Environmental Protection Act, is against Wind Prospect, which operates the site, Powergen Renewables which owns it and Barrow Borough Council, whose environmental health officers have the first responsibility under the act to regulate a noise nuisance.

    BBC: Legal protest over windfarm

  • Under the overall responsibility of the Director of UNESCO Bangkok and the supervision of the Coordinator of APEID, the incumbent will act as Programme Specialist and contribute to the work of the APEID in the field of ICT in Education in Member States in the region.

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  • The SBA has responsibility under section 15(g) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(g)) for overseeing the federal small business procurement goaling process, including the government-wide, cumulative 3 percent goal for participation by small businesses owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans in federal contracting and subcontracting.

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  • As an incredulous nation tried to comprehend the brutal child-on-child murder Mr Kirby felt "the tremendous responsibility under the glare of the media and public and also all the emotional issues which came out, as well as having to deal with my own staff who were as emotionally touched by it as anybody else".

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  • Japan's failure to clean up its banking mess, or to punish those who caused it, partly reflects its system of collective responsibility, under which everybody and nobody is responsible at the same time.

    ECONOMIST: Japanese banking

  • And we will have a system to make it affordable, but it will be required, as part of shared responsibility, under a new way of making sure that we don't leave anybody out and provide quality, affordable health care for everyone.

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  • Cayne had come under intense pressure to take responsibility for his role in steep mortgage-related losses.

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  • Earlier the inquiry heard from Conservative MP Stephen Dorrell, who was national heritage secretary in the mid-90s under John Major, with responsibility for media policy.

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  • Mapp's "health and fitness" aspirations are now the Department of Health's responsibility and come under the 2012 legacy goal of getting "two million people more active" by 2012.

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  • Under normal circumstances, that responsibility would fall to Teemu Tainio or Rafael Marquez, but Tainio is also hurt and Marquez is serving a three-game ban for kicking an opponent.

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  • More recently, politicians have had to accept debt brakes and other devices to limit borrowing and many have submitted to external surveillance by independent monitors such as the U.K.'s Office for Budget Responsibility or, under the euro zone's Fiscal Pact, by the European Commission.

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  • Too many leaders fail under pressure, and not accepting responsibility is one of the three causes of it.

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  • Congress' watchdog agency, the General Accounting Office, called for consolidating government responsibility for food safety under one agency.

    CNN: Is the government fighting food poisoning?

  • The new powers come under the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 and are aimed at cutting late night crime and disorder.

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  • Under the ministerial code, the responsibility for the management and conduct of special advisers, including discipline, rests with the minister who made the appointment.

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  • Another danger the GAO pointed out: 401(k) providers often deliberately structure company plans to avoid accepting fiduciary, or legal, responsibility for the plans under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

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  • Conservative peer Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, who had responsibility for Scottish affairs under John Major, said he feared the bill would result in much higher taxes for those north of the border.

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  • We see Lincoln less as the noble hero and more as the wise-cracking politician here, and the broken man beneath that half-smiling exterior, crooked under the weight of tragedy and responsibility that sit upon his shoulders.

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  • Cadets, this is the day you finally become officers in the finest Air Force in the world. (Applause.) Like generations before you, you'll be charged with the responsibility of leading those under your command.

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  • Under the legal doctrine of command responsibility, commanders may be held criminally responsible for war crimes committed by personnel within their unit if directed by a commander, or if a commander knew that war crimes were occurring and failed to prevent them or investigate and hold accountable those perpetrating the offenses.

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  • Under the accord, the drug review and drug safety offices now have equal responsibility for "significant safety issues" pertaining to medicines under review or already approved for marketing.

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