| If we ostentatiously display our Rolex watch, should we be held responsible when it is ripped from our wrist? |
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| Were these trends inevitable, or should the current administration be held responsible? |
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| As to the etiology of this state of spiritual decline, many historical factors can be held responsible. |
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| I am also in agreement that perpetrators must be held responsible for their actions. |
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| In some countries the law states that if underage youngsters break the law the parents are held responsible too. |
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| These houses are occupied by senior citizens who have held responsible positions during their working lives. |
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| As directors of the limited company they cannot be held responsible for the company's debts. |
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| In fact, the failure of the German army to take Paris was seen as a failure and Moltke was held responsible. |
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| The peasants also refused to pay taxes, tithes and manorial dues to their landlords, whom they held responsible for their economic plight. |
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| Landowners, too, can be held responsible should someone decide to discard their trash on private property. |
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| Employers must be held responsible for negligence over worker safety and be punished accordingly. |
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| A bulletin board system operator will be held responsible for what topics are and what the commentators say. |
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| This may be because the theory is non-specific, so that no individual physicians or institutions can be held responsible. |
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| The Cemetery shall not be held responsible for any order authorizing an interment given by telephone. |
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| Leaders are also to be held responsible for the behavior of their immediate family and personal assistants. |
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| Racism is wrong because it condemns somebody because of their skin colour, for which they cannot be held responsible. |
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| It's right in principle that businesses whose customers cause a mess should be held responsible for clearing it up. |
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| How culpable are they, can they be held responsible and will they pay for their mistake? |
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| The drug trade is also frequently implicated and is held responsible for the increasing proliferation of guns throughout society. |
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| Manufacturers will be held responsible for the reclamation and recycling of old computers, with end-users incurring no extra cost. |
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| If both have been at fault then both should be held responsible. |
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| No ship could be unloaded without the permission of a Hong merchant, who was then held responsible for the payment of all tariffs and harbour dues. |
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| But his commanding officers in the desert know that if they do something like that, they will be personally held responsible for war crimes after the war is over. |
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| If Uber did actually mislead its customers, it should certainly be held responsible. |
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| Whether or not Risner will be able to convince a federal judge that the U.S. should be held responsible, is another story. |
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| Is she going to be held responsible in any way on the Day of Judgment? |
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| If a burglar breaks the safe and steals the guns, I won't be held responsible for their criminal use because I did what I reasonably could to secure them. |
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| It is one thing to be held responsible for what you do when alive but another to be vilified for things done in your name 1800 years after your death. |
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| Should a criminal be held responsible for his crime when a brain scan can demonstrate some abnormality in his neural circuitry? |
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| The parents of these churlish, raffish youths should be held responsible. |
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| Over the past few years, professionals in the finance business have found themselves held responsible for the dirty dealings which go on under their noses. |
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| The grand total of those apprehended or held responsible to date has been zero. |
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| An MOT station cannot be held responsible for defects that occur to the vehicle several months after the test was conducted. |
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| The EDO instructed that teachers would be held responsible in the result of matric examinations failed to achieve the targeted percentage. |
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| The religious and political radicals who were held responsible for the wars suffered harsh repression. |
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| Generally, however, the Prime Minister is held responsible by the nation for the consequences of legislation or of general government policy. |
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| Pastoralists in the Sahel zone in Africa were held responsible for the depletion of resources. |
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| In October 1496 the Royal Council ordered that the clan chiefs in the region would be held responsible by the king for crimes of the islanders. |
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| The Polish government could not control the Cossacks, but was held responsible as the men were nominally their subjects. |
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| The Exarch, held responsible for the acts of his master Byzantine Emperor Leo III, was murdered and many officials put to flight in the chaos. |
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| If there is one person who can be held responsible for the emergence of cocaine as a recreational pharmaceutical, it was Freud. |
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| This professional could give his entire time to his duties and be held responsible for his actions. |
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| Cort was held responsible for Jellicoe's debt and declared bankrupt. |
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| This is an exception to the general principle of criminal law that those who choose to break the law are held responsible for the crimes that they commit. |
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| Far from being held responsible for the Iraq debacle, the shameless neocons want more war, more suffering, more waste and devastation, as long as others do the dying. |
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| It is now to be hoped that those held responsible for what went on, were a few rotten apples and that they failed to infest the rest of the barrel. |
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| The age of majority was usually either ten or twelve, when a child could legally take charge of inherited property, or be held responsible for a crime. |
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