individual responsibility

collocation in English

meaningsofindividualandresponsibility

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individual
adjective
uk
/ˌɪn.dɪˈvɪdʒ.u.əl/
us
/ˌɪn.dəˈvɪdʒ.u.əl/
existing and considered separately from the other things or people in ...
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responsibility
noun
uk
/rɪˌspɒn.sɪˈbɪl.ə.ti/
us
/rɪˌspɑːn.səˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
something that it is your job or duty to ...
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(Definition ofindividualandresponsibilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The consequences of the shift from collective toindividualresponsibilityare significant.
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Both strands are brought together in looking beyondindividualresponsibilityor culpability to the structural and lifecourse causes of the problems.
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The participants viewed financial, medical and social supports provided by the government as earned and thus a component ofindividualresponsibilityfor later life.
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The just rate of redistribution may have to be adjusted, depending on how important backward-looking considerations ofindividualresponsibilityare taken to be.
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What the foregoing shows is that proper observance of the ethics of belief is partly a social and not totally anindividualresponsibility.
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Pensions policy (along with policy in many other fields) is currently dominated by the rhetoric ofindividualresponsibility.
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Whatever the sources promoting greaterindividualresponsibility, many governments acknowledge that realizing viable retirement incomes in the future depends on citizens' competence and consistency.
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He argues that institutional culture can affect a bureaucrat's mode of thinking and behaving, but that there is room forindividualresponsibilityand action.
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Instead, the moral relevance of factors is judged by their relation to human attitudes and collective orindividualresponsibility.
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Finally, self-regulation would enforce security by sharingindividualresponsibilityfor safe and secure investment through the market mechanism.
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It suggests that we can go beyond ourindividualresponsibilityto acknowledge that we are not ethically isolated in time or place.
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Removing barriers to the market and encouraging private provision would encourageindividualresponsibilityand entrepreneurship.
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For example, the committee concluded that in vitro fertilization and homeopathic medicines could be left toindividualresponsibility.
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While excuses are accounts that rejectindividualresponsibilityfor a socially unacceptable act, justifications acknowledge individual responsibility but deny the negative consequences of the act.
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Furthermore, selfregulation promotedindividualresponsibility, as individuals responsible for having their own pension assets would seek good personal pensions for themselves.
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The point of this position is to provide theoretical justification for limitingindividualresponsibility, which rests on the following idea.
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To understand the conditions which facilitated these alliances requires a consideration of the rebellion's institutional context rather than a narrow assessment ofindividualresponsibility.
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One recurrent theme, however, isindividualresponsibilityfor salvation, which can be ensured through the performance of good actions in this world.
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This distinction is necessary to reflect the essential properties ofindividualresponsibility.
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The focus of this system isindividualresponsibilityand blame.
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