Onus Sentence Examples

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  • The onus of testing falls upon the manufacturer.

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  • It is always, however, a matter of fact for the jury, and the onus of proving the death lies on the party who asserts it.

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  • He sought to persuade Alexander to open negotiations with Napoleon, if only to throw the onus of breaking the peace entirely on the French side.

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  • The onus is on the person to take advantage of all the stuff that's out there.

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  • The onus is on the user to apply a critical faculty.

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  • The purchase of guaranteed railways owned by foreign companies likewise added largely to the bonded indebtedness, though the onus was in existence in another form.

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  • It would shift the onus of identifying the information from the applicant to the authority.

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  • However, provision of conversion tools should not be seen as a means of removing the onus on retailers to provide proper price information.

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  • But either way, your experience is a reminder that there is a strong onus on customers to take care of their cards.

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  • The onus was on the NWS to look at how to break the current deadlock in arms control.

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  • I also want to help women recognize if a relationship isn't working, and to not put all the onus on the man.

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  • With feedback as easy as a mouse click, suddenly the onus of response fell on the business, with those businesses which responded well to customer feedback gaining an advantage in the marketplace.

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  • There is no reason to place a heavy onus on the claimant.

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  • The need for lasting peace now places even more onus on the solidarity movement worldwide.

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  • Venus principally rules the Earth triplicity by day, with the onus of rulership given to the Moon at night.

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  • The onus was on the pursuer to rebut that presumption.

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  • Machines make it impossible to make errors, the reasoning goes, while free weights puts the onus on the trainer to get the exercise right -- or face potential injury.

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  • Then the onus of responsibility would be on the owner, not the poor mutt who would much rather be roaming yonder fields anyway.

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  • If someone makes a claim for damages they must be able to prove negligence and the onus is upon them to do so.

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  • Proof of the inability of an Expert Committee to express opinion will not discharge such onus.

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  • The buyer must place the onus for these crucial factors with the seller.

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  • Section 12(3) throws the onus on the employer to show that the employe is not dealing as a consumer.

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  • The Consumer Protection Act has placed a greater onus on anyone dealing directly with the public.

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  • But some children have special needs and there is a clear onus on schools to meet those special needs where they are specified.

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  • Corporal Wood's platoon sergeant was killed, the onus being placed on Corporal Wood to become its leader.

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  • The ustribes were the victors, and it was from them that the astic line sprang; hence the Pharaoh always bore the name onus, and represented in his own hallowed person the ancient 11 deity.

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  • If so, apologetics is literally a science, and it is pedantry to claim the defensive and pretend to throw the onus probandi upon objectors.

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  • Having created the mechanism to complain via the Web, the onus would be on the PCA to communicate this option to potential complainants.

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  • The onus will be on the prospective developer to prove to the Council that the first or second preferences cannot be met.

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  • In 1667 he wrote, with the assent of the elector palatine, a tract, De statu imperii germanici, liber onus.

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