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词汇 example_english_onerous-responsibility
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onerous responsibility

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meanings of onerousand responsibility


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onerous
adjective
uk /ˈəʊ.nər.əs/ us /ˈɑː.nɚ.əs/
difficult to do or needing a lot ...
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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 onerous responsibility


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However, an officer of less experience might have the onerousresponsibility of detaining someone for a long time.
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The clerk, who has to steer us through the difficulties of drafting, has a very onerousresponsibility.
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This is a very onerousresponsibility for anyone to take.
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In present circumstances, the administration is obliged to carry a difficult and onerousresponsibility.
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This is a sensible relaxation of what might otherwise be a somewhat onerousresponsibility for district councils to discharge.
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With these specialties, even a one-in-one rota—that is, notionally being on call for all 168 hours a week—is not an onerousresponsibility.
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Some people who have never had responsibility in this field sometimes fail to realise what an onerousresponsibility it is.
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We are leaving on the statute book an onerousresponsibility for local education authorities that they cannot use and which has no place.
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That is a thoroughly onerousresponsibility for governing bodies, which may meet only once a term.
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The declaration required to be made by the directors under this clause is an onerousresponsibility.
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The nurses, doctors, managers and everyone else have had the onerousresponsibility of achieving change since the tragic events took place.
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It was an onerousresponsibility, and you managed to carry it out successfully.
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An onerousresponsibility is put upon the local rating authorities, particularly in the penal system of levying rates on empty properties.
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I accept this onerousresponsibility, but not lightly.
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It is an onerousresponsibility that rests on the applicant's advisers.
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Their driving test examiners used to be scandalously underpaid in spite of the fact that they have a rather onerousresponsibility.
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He has an onerousresponsibility, which he shares with his colleagues and which he discharges with great distinction.
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It seems to me that this is a very dangerous right for us to claim, and a very onerousresponsibility to assume.
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What a great privilege and onerousresponsibility that is.
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It puts a huge and onerousresponsibility on him, and it is incumbent on all of us to give him our absolute trust and backing.
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