Word: onus
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...delivered his report just as the British and Irish governments are trying to revive Ulster's flagging peace process by persuading the I.R.A. to retire voluntarily. The province's power-sharing government has been suspended since a web of I.R.A. spies was exposed last year. To restart it, the onus is on the I.R.A. to prove its war is over. But an important sticking point for republicans before declaring peace has been the bedrock conviction that the police would never be fair to them. Stevens has exposed why that conviction took root, but he hopes his report will begin...
Garner, reporting to Franks, would take charge of all civilian matters. He would coordinate reconstruction and civil administration and quickly, Washington hopes, shift humanitarian assistance from the military to U.N. and nongovernmental agencies. Initially, there was talk of making a civilian top dog to take some of the onus off a military occupation. But a senior White House official tells TIME, "A civilian czar is not what people have in mind." The U.S. feels that one more link in the chain of command would weaken the effectiveness of the operation...
...most international students recognize that there is only so much Harvard can do to address the worst consequences of the brain drain phenomenon. They say the onus should be on foreign governments to take advantage of their students in America and make a return more economically palatable, rather than depending on 22-year-olds to sacrifice personal career opportunities for intangible national benefits they may never be able to take advantage...
...take its cue from the inspectors. But the Secretary of State has sounded notice that should Blix report that Iraq continues to evade its responsibility, the Security Council will be expected to respond quickly, or step aside. More than anything else, Powell has reminded the Security Council that the onus for avoiding war rests primarily, and urgently, with Saddam Hussein...
...Rather than "smoking gun" evidence of Iraqi weapons programs, the U.S. and Britain have insisted in recent weeks that UN resolutions place the onus on Saddam Hussein to prove he has disarmed, and chief inspector Dr. Hans Blix this week testified that Iraq has thus far failed on this front. The case becomes even stronger if the U.S. can show proof of an Iraqi effort to stymie the inspection process, because the argument for giving inspections more time is premised on the idea of Iraqi cooperation. It will become increasingly difficult for reluctant Council members to argue against military action...