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Sentences starting with responsible

Responsible for what? [9]

Sentences ending with responsible

Do you think you are in no way responsible? [11]
And beneath this wrath, stimulating and energizing it the more, was the ache in his soul from the loss for which he held these enemies responsible. [9]
The following list was taken literally from the Materia Medica of Hahnemann, by my friend M. Vernois, for whose accuracy I am willing to be responsible. [3]
I should wish to keep it in rational strength and coolness; but to do so I must determinedly resist the kindly-meant, but too irksome expression of an apprehension, for the realisation or defeat of which I have no possible power to be responsible. [14]
I don't claim to have been square with you, and I've been thinking--well, that I'm responsible. [9]
Then some of those ludicrous scenes on the road to London came up to me, for which the sky-blue frock was responsible. [9]
Emerson has had the name of being a leader in many movements in which he had very limited confidence, this among others to which the idealizing impulse derived from him lent its force, but for the organization of which he was in no sense responsible. [6]
He had wished so often in the past for a home of his own, where he could gather round him young faces and lose himself in promoting the interests of those for whom he had become forever responsible. [11]
He had to send Hilary, thus vitiated, into the Convention to conduct the most important battle since the founding of the Empire, and Austen Vane was responsible. [9]
She had always seemed part of a simple family life for which he and Jesse Bulrush and her mother and the nurse-Nurse Egan-were responsible. [11]

Short sentences using responsible

They seem somehow responsible. [4]
Who is responsible for this? [7]
You are responsible. [9]
He's not responsible. [5]
Who was responsible? [11]

Sentences containing responsible two or more times

He still adheres to his proposition, that I am responsible for what some of my friends in different parts of the State have done, but that he is not responsible for what his have done. [7]
It strikes me there is some difference between holding a man responsible for an act which he has not done and holding him responsible for an act that he has done. [7]
A weird, painful suggestion crept into his brain: he was not responsible for her, and he was responsible for a woman up there by the hospital, whose home was the valley of the Chaudiere! [11]
The scholar is largely responsible for it; he is largely responsible for the isolation of his position, and the want of sympathy it begets. [4]
He would expiate his crime and his sin, the crime of homicide for which he alone was responsible, the sin of secrecy for which he and another were responsible. [11]

More example sentences with the word responsible in them

From the moment you went to see her you became responsible for her. [9]
Now, Colonel, can you picture Jefferson, or Washington or John Adams franking their wardrobes through the mails and adding the facetious idea of making the government responsible for the cargo for the sum of one dollar and five cents? [5]
Hilary Vane, as you doubtless know, was largely responsible for this. [9]
Gentlemen, do you wonder if this woman, thus pursued, lost her reason, was beside herself with fear, and that her wrongs preyed upon her mind until she was no longer responsible for her acts? [5]
I think you will find that you are held responsible for your husband. [9]
I cannot see what he means by parading these resolutions, if it is not to hold me responsible for them in some way. [7]
All the different ways of getting hot and tired were gone through with, and by-and-by the rovers straggled back to camp fortified with responsible appetites, and then the destruction of the good things began. [5]
There wasn't any way to collect that ten cents, and he reckon'd the gov'ment would hold him responsible for it and maybe turn him out besides, when they found he hadn't collected it. [5]
D. D. Porter was placed in command of the steamer Powhatan, and Captain Samuel Mercer was detached therefrom, by my special order, and neither of them is responsible for any apparent or real irregularity on their part or in connection with that vessel. [7]
This perfect organization was maintained for many years, and though it came to be relaxed in details, it was literally true that the heiress was never alone, and never out of the sight of some trusted person responsible for her safety. [4]
A sharp suspicion was in her heart that somehow or other her father was responsible for this man's degradation and ruin. [11]
Mr. Storer, who was forever giving parties, was responsible for this one at Vauxhall. [9]
I have Austen Vane to thank for still another favour--he is responsible for Hilary's condition to-day. [9]
What is the use of hunting down and holding to bitter account people who are responsible for other people's innocent acts? [5]
The duty is upon her in this poor world of being as attractive as she can, and yet she is held responsible for all the mischief her attractiveness produces. [4]
A-n-d-when she tilts up her nose-well, it's--it's--Well it's that kind of a nose that--" "Now Eleanor!--the woman is not responsible for her nose--" and so-on and so-on. [5]
The wretch has tried all the ways he can think of to make us comprehend that Michael Angelo is only responsible for the creation of a part of the world, but somehow he has not succeeded yet. [5]
It is a too frequent fault of our common-school system that, owing to inadequate pay and ignorant selections, the teachers are not competent to their responsible task. [4]
It seems odd to write that he is not responsible, since he never has been,--his condition is so queer that I am at a loss to describe it. [9]
We have reason to think the Whigs of that State hold us responsible, to some extent, for the appointments which may be made of our citizens. [7]
I am responsible to the Third House only, and I hope to be permitted to make it exceedingly warm for that body, without caring whether the sympathies of the public and the Church be enlisted in their favor, and against myself, or not. [5]
I merely desire to say that my unimportant adventure is not narrated in answer to the popular demand, and I do not wish to be held responsible for its variation from the typical character of such experiences. [4]
It was necessary to say something for the poet's sake,--perhaps for Susan's; for she was in a certain sense responsible for the poems of a youth of genius, of whom she had spoken so often and so enthusiastically. [6]
I am responsible to my Lord for words which I speak in His name, not to you. [11]
It had seemed to deliver all power into the hands of the ignorant and non-tax-paying classes; and of a necessity the responsible offices were filled from these classes also. [5]
He was responsible, to an extent, for the happiness of these two young creatures. [11]
I always admire this art by which the accomplished story-teller lets his listener drag the reluctant tale of the marvelous from him, and makes you in a manner responsible for its improbability. [4]
Or did she think that circumstances and not her own choice were responsible for her state of feeling? [4]
The Auditor said the testimony showed that at least half the destruction was done by the Indians "before the troops started in pursuit," and of course the government was not responsible for that half. [5]
During the offering the priests sang prayers in a loud voice, enumerated the virtues of their king, and, that blame might in no case light on the head of their ruler, made his bad advisers responsible for every deadly sin committed in ignorance. [10]
In times like the present men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity. [7]
He apologized in the name of the whole nation, and made Holmes a most handsome bow, and told Constable Harris to see him to his quarters, and hold himself personally responsible if he was molested again. [5]
These Hellenes, like the Egyptian sages of the times of the Pharaohs, divined and declared that the soul was held responsible after death for all it had done of good or evil in its mortal body. [10]
The carpenter and the carver in wood who were responsible for the work had fallen victims to white whiskey on the very last day of their task, and had been driven from the church by the Cure, who then sent for Jo. [11]
I barely suggest that you, or any of the friends there, on the party account, look it over, and exclude what you may think would embarrass the party bearing in mind, at all times, that I authorize nothing--will be responsible for nothing. [7]
The company felt that they were occupying an unusually responsible position--they were representing the people of America, not the Government--and therefore they were careful to do their best to perform their high mission with credit. [5]
Miss Silence felt that she could not be responsible for her any longer. [6]
When we consider that not even the most responsible English monarch ever yielded back a stolen public right until it was wrenched from them by bloody violence, is it rational to suppose that gentler methods can win privileges in Russia? [5]
It is said that Mark Twain never really recovered from the tragedy of his brother's death--that it was responsible for the serious, pathetic look that the face of the world's greatest laugh-maker always wore in repose. [5]
He said, too, that he should not concern himself with Trumbull any more, but thereafter he should hold Lincoln responsible for the slanders upon him. [7]
I think," added Susan, smiling, "I think she feels responsible, for you. [9]
This is a sort of summary of what we all said, and no one in particular is responsible for it; and in this it is like public opinion. [4]
Sir Walter had so large a hand in making Southern character, as it existed before the war, that he is in great measure responsible for the war. [5]
And I am so happy, for I am responsible for none of it. [5]
In his view Shelley's first wife, Harriet, free of all offense as far as we have historical facts for guidance, must be held unforgivably responsible for her husband's innocent act in deserting her and taking up with another woman. [5]
Of course the Sheiks said they were the only responsible parties; that all contracts must be made with them, all moneys paid over to them, and none exacted from us by any but themselves alone. [5]
But, at the same time, I made myself tiresome, if not hoarse, with repeating to Mr. Howard, their only agent seen by me, my protest that I authorized nothing--would be responsible for nothing. [7]
It should be said, however, that the daily newspaper is not alone responsible for this: it is what the age and the community where it is published make it. [4]
One of the rooms in the second story of the ladies' wing where she lodged was still untenanted, and her husband would be responsible if she occupied it, only Barbara must promise not to attract attention to herself by any sound or gesture. [10]
And I feel responsible, because I had mother ask him to-night. [9]
Speaking-trumpets are not responsible for what is said through them. [5]
You are not, responsible for the situation, but you are none the less in an illogical position before the law. [4]
My father was responsible for that. [9]
Columbus is really responsible for New York. [4]
You are not responsible for Lord Montague. [4]
I'm no more responsible for his speculations than for his domestic concerns. [4]
We are not responsible for either the Hendersons or the Blunts being in the world. [4]
She was not responsible for Carmen. [4]
The bimbashi was responsible for all; he was an Englishman, let him get water for them, or die like the rest of them--perhaps before them! [11]
I considered myself responsible for all those lives. [5]
And who was responsible for all this luxury and laxity? [9]
He could only regard this mode of action, independently of him, as a fresh proof of her dislike, and she must hold herself responsible for the consequences. [10]
At such times recollections came into my mind of those characteristics in her that had seemed most responsible for my alienation.... That demon I had fed so mightily still lived. [9]
Are there not private telegrams and letters to the president of the Northeastern in New York advising him that the Pingsquit bill has passed the House, and that a certain Mr. Crewe is primarily responsible? [9]
You created the police, and you are responsible for them. [5]
Was Elsie Venner, poisoned by the venom of a crotalus before she was born, morally responsible for the "volitional" aberrations, which translated into acts become what is known as sin, and, it may be, what is punished as crime? [6]
He ended by pointing out the significance of the fact that the committee had given no hearings; by declaring that if the bill became a law, it would inevitably react upon the heads of those who were responsible for it. [9]
Some delicate operation performed by him was recorded and praised in the Lancet; and he was offered a responsible post in a medical college, and, at the same time, the good-will of a valuable practice. [11]
You're a responsible party, and in such a case lawful money and lawful notice are pretty much the same. [12]
I, on my part, do not wish to be held responsible for some of his more daring thoughts, if I should see fit to reproduce them hereafter. [6]
The clans are part of the empire, and each chief is responsible for his clan--did one but know it. [9]
What he spied out, he was told was to be kept secret, and no one could be responsible for the secrecy of another. [10]
If it turn out that the rule is a good one for me--that I am responsible for any and every opinion that any man has expressed who is my friend,--then it is a good rule for him. [7]
How far is our popular education, which we have now enjoyed for two full generations, responsible for this state of mind? [4]
Whatever Mr. Flint's original character may have been in his long-forgotten youth on the wind-swept hill farm in Truro, his methods of attack lacked directness now; perhaps a long business and political experience were responsible for this trait. [9]
Of course no one can hold Emerson responsible for the "Yoga" doctrine of Brahmanism, which he has amused himself with putting in verse. [6]
Columbus made voyaging on the Atlantic popular, and is responsible for much of the delusion concerning it. [4]
If, in spite of these facts, you do not deem yourself responsible for the misery which has been caused, if your conscience is now clear, it is my duty to tell you that there is a higher bar of justice. [9]
Victoria knew sufficient of life and had visited hospitals enough to understand that mental causes were generally responsible for such breakdowns--Hilary had had a shock. [9]
It did not occur to him that the tailor--the mysterious figure in the parish--might be responsible. [11]
Indeed, it is now my conviction that it is responsible for hardly any of it. [5]
Besides, foreigners could not see so clearly as the Russians how much the Government was responsible for the grinding poverty of the masses; nor could they very well realize the moral wretchedness imposed by that Government upon the whole of educated Russia. [5]
The Government could not hold itself responsible for Claridge Pasha's relief, nor in any sense for his present position. [11]
It seemed almost no time at all before she was at the station again, clinging to Aunt Mary: but now the separation was not so hard, and she had Edith and Mary for company, and George, a dignified and responsible sophomore at Harvard. [9]
For whatever the new ambitions and undertakings, there was still a woman in the lonely distance for whose welfare he was responsible, for whose happiness he had yet done nothing, unless to give her his name under sombre conditions was happiness for her. [11]
We had a national philosophy that measured prosperity in dollars and cents, included in this measurement the profits of liquor dealers who were responsible for most of our idiots. [9]
I said to myself, I am responsible to the country for this, and I must go along with him and protect the country against him as far as I can. [5]
I freely acknowledge myself to be the servant of the people, according to the bond of service, the United States Constitution, and that, as such, I am responsible to them. [7]
Little by little my anger at what I had now become convinced was her weakness cooled, and--though paradoxically I had continued to love her in spite of the torture for which she was responsible, in spite of the resentment I felt, I melted toward her. [9]
I am as much responsible for the resolutions at Kane County as those at Springfield,--the amount of the responsibility being exactly nothing in either case; no more than there would be in regard to a set of resolutions passed in the moon. [7]
He is as much responsible for Louisville as for Cincinnati. [7]
I had not much hope of bringing life back, but still we worked with a kind of desperation, for it seemed to Hungerford and myself that somehow we were responsible to humanity for him. [11]
I'm responsible for Mr. Hodder, anyway. [9]
He warn't any more responsible than a colt. [5]
For a few months I enjoyed what to me was an entirely new phase of existence--a butterfly idleness; nothing to do, nobody to be responsible to, and untroubled with financial uneasiness. [5]
If you find misspelled words in this note, you will remember my infirmity and not hold me responsible. [5]
In attempting this merger, however, he had his first failure, but he showed that he could think for himself, and he was made increasingly responsible. [11]
So that the meeting should not be composed only of the roughest elements, they privately urged all responsible citizens to attend, and if possible capture the meeting for law and order and legitimate agitation. [11]
He's responsible to me, and if he does it again I'll give him a talking to. [5]
So they licensed me as a pilot--knighted me, so to speak--and I rose up clothed with authority, a responsible servant of the United States Government. [5]

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