individual responsibility

collocation in English

meanings of individualand responsibility

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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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Examples of individual responsibility

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