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Example sentences for: onus

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To be sure, he was far too good and honorable a scholar to be considered, even remotely, a deliberate plagiarist; but he was careless at times and rather mean, and his apologies, always couched in language that tried to put the onus on others, come through as being very insincere indeed.
The onus for double entendre, particularly if risqué, properly lies with the perceiver.
Her approach points the way for liberals to gain credibility by shedding the onus of being "social engineers," and take their turn at playing the populist anti-expert card.
But, says neurobiologist and olfaction expert Lawrence C. Katz (Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States), ‘the onus is now on people who believe otherwise [than the labelled-line model] to provide compelling proof for the cross-fibre theory because now, at least at the periphery, the evidence is compelling for a labelled line for bitter, sweet, and umami’.
.Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, President Clinton's national security adviser, put the onus on the Palestinians.