Word: onus
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...although we need stronger international regulatory institutions, especially for finance, the onus for creating those is on national governments of the developed world (more nationalism). Right now, international institutions are paradoxically both indispensable and ineffective. They can’t set up the new architecture. Strong states must lead the way by regulating at home, albeit hopefully with multilateral principles in mind...
...Palestinian Authority, one to which it is more sympathetic. And Russia, which voted for Security Council Resolution 1593, cannot now ignore the arrest warrant simply because it disputes the results of the investigation it authorized. Once the ICC’s pre-trial chamber issues the indictment, the onus falls on the Security Council to act. The Court cannot enforce its own arrest warrants. The council, however, can either choose to defer the prosecution for a year under Article 16 of the Rome Statute, or it can act to enforce...
...must not be exaggerated, of course. While it does put over 3,000 people in schools across the country there are still many other routes to effecting change in public education. More still needs to be done in promoting top-down education change in this country, and the onus first falls on President-elect Obama. In the early moments of his administration, it will be pivotal for him to appoint leaders, especially a secretary of education, who will further facilitate the trend toward public sector work and service by the nation’s top graduates. After all, the economy...
...Western attributed the acceleration of incarceration rates to a “historic collision” of two forces: the shift of the criminal justice system from rehabilitative to punitive and unemployment problems that have arisen in the inner city since the 1960s. But Western placed much of the onus on politicians.“It’s been more of a political process than an economic process in which elected officials began competing with each other on who could be harder on crime,” he said. In 1979, 12 percent of African American men would...
...then the student may enroll in a more suitable private school at the expense of the government. The current problem is that this option is entirely under-funded; the federal government was originally set to pay 40 percent of the cost but currently only pays 17 percent. The onus then falls on individual schools and states to meet rising costs of education in a time when exponentially more students are being diagnosed with special needs.Palin promised that a McCain administration would finally provide the funding necessary for the government to ensure such students are always placed in appropriate, specialized learning...