onus

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• Now the onus could shift to Americans to claim the money on their tax refund — further delaying relief to struggling, lower-income Americans.

• The economic downturn is a real challenge, and puts the onus on us as a business to make sure we are as accessible to people as possible.

• While Felsen and other experts placed the majority of the onus for workplace safety on the employer, a top TOSHA official noted that the workers bore some responsibility too.

• The lease-to-own arrangement put the onus on the city to handle repair costs that have skyrocketed while traditional leases leave those costs and responsibilities to landlords.

• So the onus still falls on parents to decide how much information is right for their children.

• However, Gold put the onus on herself and other more established women.

• UNO puts such an onus on smoking students that it ultimately seems like a bully, even more than a nanny.

• Asked about funding public libraries, Osborne put the onus of responsibility on local councils.

• The onus is on one man to hold this wacky goulash of punditry together: Mike Tirico.

• Trying to put the onus onto someone else for your own decisions is really cowardly and kind of dishonest.

• On him, and on him alone, falls the crushing onus of responsibility: to be a Corps Commander is child's play in that comparison.