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The country needs to manage its oil supplies responsibly.
She uses her credit card responsibly and pays what she's spent every month.
They praise her when she acts responsibly.

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responsibly | American Dictionary

responsibly
adverb
us/rɪˈspɑn·sə·bli/
with good judgment and the ability to act correctly:
Parties are permitted, so long as everyone behaves responsibly.

Examples of responsibly

responsibly
The prediction, then, is that both popular and unpopular parties behave responsibly.
At this time, you cannot responsibly tell your client to pay $300 in child support.
By extension, living responsibly was viewed as the right thing, and irresponsibility was wrong.
Divorcing responsibly thus produces some consequences that may generate injustices.
As shown above ever y society has its own deviant social g roups whose reproduction is considered undesirable and who do not act responsibly.
But it also accounted, in this view, for their inability to combine and to negotiate responsibly and reasonably with their employers.
As with any review of anthologies, not every contribution can be reviewed adequately and responsibly.
One might conclude that this partial restoration is a reward for abjuring idolatry and loving responsibly.
Demonstrating these qualities (doing things responsibly) opened up opportunities to exercise autonomy (doing responsible things).
In another sense, one acts responsibly just in case one acts blamelessly (that is, one avoids blameworthiness).
Their usage carried the implication that the residents should behave responsibly as members of ' the community', but made no reference to their abilities or desires.
Thus, our treatment of a person reflects the fact that he has responsibly connected himself to certain values.
Both corporate and state processes aim to 'liberate' the private - but expect the liberated subjects to behave responsibly (as consumers, as parents, as citizen-consumers).
A physician needs to prescribe responsibly, evaluate patients thoroughly, and carefully document the basis of his or her practice.
Moreover, all agents have a derivative obligation to act responsibly with respect to the production of actual value.
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