Example sentences of "devolving responsibility for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to stress that while there is within right-wing attacks on the welfare state a concentration on shifting culture and attitudes , with the increasing emphasis on ‘ business ’ and ‘ enterprise ’ , on managing tight budgets and devolving responsibility for effecting cuts to lower levels , the intentions are determinedly economic . |
| 2 | Clearly devolving responsibility for delivering the service locally by pushing such responsibility as far down the hierarchy to the point of delivery as is reasonably possible , and by ensuring that the local manager is placed in a hierarchy of managers , all with closely defined job descriptions from top to bottom of the organization |
| 3 | Where courses are offered at only one teaching centre , it would be possible to make significant progress by initially devolving responsibility for assessment only to the college , while maintaining for the time being central control of the course content . |
| 4 | a splendid initiative and it 's similar to the way in which the district council is now devolving responsibility for public toilets , and I 'm delighted that local government reorganization has been given a bit of stir that districts and county councils to get their acts together . |
| 5 | BR 's corporate planning was reformed to fit in with the new structure by devolving responsibility for planning largely to the five businesses and by developing ‘ action plans ’ to commit lower level management to business objectives ( Heath 1984 : 221 ) . |