No one can shift responsibility on to others or trade off their resources.

The new system shifts more responsibility to the police in some areas.

But he said the state drug agency was trying to shift responsibility for the problem.

"They want to shift responsibility away from themselves," he said.

This has been shown to gradually shift responsibility for discipline from the teacher to the children themselves.

One aims to shift responsibility, or blame, for increased spending to individual members.

This is a rationale that shifts responsibility for protection onto the individual.

All officials emphasized that the goal was to shift responsibilities to Iraqis.

It will take time to shift responsibility away from our over-centralised, bureaucratic state.

Employers were promised savings as they shifted responsibility to workers for thousands of dollars in costs.