(a.) Nor responsible; not liable or able to answer fro consequences; innocent.
(a.) Not to be trusted; unreliable.
Example Sentences:
(1) When he was prime minister Tony Blair asked Peter Mandelson to tell the Prince of Wales to stop his "unhelpful" attempts to influence policy on GM and Mandelson accused him of being "anti-scientific and irresponsible".
(2) In this investigation, reanalysis of responses to case vignettes obtained from 436 psychologists, psychiatrists, and internists revealed that on the issue of confidentiality management, these health care providers discriminate among cases involving: Premeditated harm to others, socially irresponsible acts with possible dire consequences to self or others, and minor theft.
(3) Resisting dictatorships is more worthwhile than accepting them and thinking things will change by themselves.” Asked if the suffering for a majority of South Sudanese citizens could be stopped if Machar and his colleagues gave up the fight, the rebel leader says “giving up would be irresponsible” and that “history would not forgive him” for it.
(4) A senior Conservative cabinet minister has issued a warning to leaders "of all political parties" that putting Britain's membership of the European Union at risk would be "complete folly" and that the "irresponsible" debate taking place is damaging the country's influence at the negotiating table.
(5) Corbyn to complain to MoD about army chief's ‘political interference’ Read more Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn’s political mis-steps over the past 10 days have allowed his views to be dismissed as flaky and irresponsible – even where he is right, as in his warnings about kneejerk responses to terrorist attacks and, indeed, in his Armistice Day strictures about the requirement for the top brass to stay out of politics .
(6) It established a pattern that would hold for the next five years: to call the effort irresponsible, but then – sometimes after giving an actual veto – to sign the bill rather than inviting the obvious attacks that he was holding US troops hostage to his Guantánamo closure pledge.
(7) The people who do somehow want to suggest that the science is in doubt are profoundly irresponsible."
(8) However, Henry Ashworth, chief executive of the industry-funded Portman Group, denied drink ads are irresponsible.
(9) Webb agreed, calling Miliband "irresponsible" for "stirring up cheap headlines", sneering: "Why doesn't the government set a price cap on a tin of beans?"
(10) "Such articles are not only provocative but also highly irresponsible as they undermine Greece's efforts and those of the eurozone and serve only the interests of speculators," the statement said.
(11) She also hit out at “scaremongering” by media commentators in the wake of the attack, insisting that it was “very irresponsible” to whip up “mass hysteria” about the dangers of the internet.
(12) Navalny announced he was moving the rally to Tverskaya Street, saying: “Compromise is possible, but not humiliation.” Some in the protest movement welcomed the decision as the only logical response to the obstacles imposed by the authorities, but others decried it as irresponsible because it put protesters at risk.
(13) But at the same time we were supporting the industry and talking it up, which it deserves, some of our competitors were talking it down in their own products … that’s just crazy and a lack of leadership that frankly is irresponsible and it’s got to stop.” In a rare public appearance to mark the Australian newspaper’s 50th anniversary, Mitchell said the broadsheet newspaper was worth $50m in “cover price revenue” alone and it was too soon to walk away from print.
(14) Mr Olie apologised to customers, and denied that the special offers were irresponsible.
(15) I sought a treaty that would work for the people of African countries like South Sudan, as their newly born nation struggles to establish itself while still in conflict over borders with their northern neighbours – a conflict fuelled by irresponsible sales of deadly weapons.
(16) It doesn't just allow people to act irresponsibly, but often actively encourages them to do so.
(17) It is a bit rich to expect us to state exactly how we’ll whip our troops when Cameron himself still can’t come out and say what he’ll do with his own cabinet.” Behind the scenes, “sources close to Corbyn” could usefully soothe pro-European nerves: “As an internationalist party, our inclination is of course to remain within the European family, but it would be irresponsible to declare our hand now, leaving Cameron to barter away British employment rights.” However Corbyn votes himself, it is perfectly plain that he will not have the authority to whip individual Euro-enthusiast MPs to vote against their consciences, so he may as well concede that at once.
(18) The prime minister we hired to take decisions on our behalf has passed the buck back to us for tactical party reasons and resigned when he didn’t like our answer, David Cameron outdoing even Ed Miliband’s resignation for irresponsibility.
(19) At the same time, don’t we want our pop stars to at least flirt with irresponsibility?
(20) Many on the Right still view it as the epitome of all that was irresponsible, idiotic and dangerous about the Sixties, while many on the terminally fractured Left still mourn 1968 as the last great moment of revolutionary possibility.
Unresponsible
Definition:
(a.) Irresponsible.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mechanism by which pertussis toxin (PT) breaks the unresponsiveness of delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) to sheep red blood cells (SRBC) was examined in B10 mice.
(2) Our findings demonstrate that interleukin-2 (IL-2), but not interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) or interleukin-1 (IL-1), is able to inhibit the induction of T-cell unresponsiveness in a dose-dependent fashion.
(3) The presenting feature was an anaemia unresponsive to usual therapy.
(4) Neither was the autumn moult, induced early in intact females by the change to a short photoperiod, advanced in ganglionectomized females, showing that the latter were unresponsive to the artificial modification of the photoperiod.
(5) The possibility of in situ isolated lung perfusion as a means of treating nonresectable pulmonary cancers unresponsive to conventional chemotherapy has been investigated.
(6) The gonadally unresponsive patients had either pituitary tumours or premature menopause.
(7) When monocytes were pretreated with neuraminidase, an exoglycosidase specific for sialic acid, they became unresponsive to MIF.
(8) The induction of immunological tolerance with trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid (TNBS) was studied by a comparison of the concentration of trinitrophenyl (TNP) in the serum of tolerant mice (TolS) and the degree of unresponsiveness induced as the dose and time of tolerogen injection were varied.
(9) FBP was bound with greater frequency and intensity to 3-day oil-elicited peritoneal macrophages which are responsive to migration inhibition by FBP and migration inhibitory factor (MIF) than to resident or 7-day inflammatory macrophages which are unresponsive to activation by the same effectors.
(10) In contrast, the cat trachea was unresponsive to histamine and prostaglandin F2alpha and did not exhibit an intrinsic tone.
(11) In sharp contrast, the coverage provided by the various mainstream news channels and newspapers not only seems – with some exceptions – unresponsive and stilted, but often non-existent.
(12) The current medical management of children with chronic suppurative otitis media without cholesteatoma unresponsive to local treatment and oral antibiotics is intravenous antibiotic therapy in the hospital setting.
(13) The tumour produced insulin and gastrin with resulting hypoglycaemia and recurrent peptic ulceration which were unresponsive to other drugs.
(14) However, some patients unresponsive to standard-dose etoposide did not exhibit any response to the augmented dose of etoposide.
(15) While Claude Moraes MEP's committee on surveillance is admirably pursuing this agenda, member states remain unresponsive.
(16) These results also suggest that unresponsiveness or tolerance to thymus-independent Ag is induced in the B cells themselves, but tolerance to thymus-dependent proteins resides primarily in the T cell compartment.
(17) In oestrogen-treated preparations, tuberoinfundibular arcuate neurons responsive and unresponsive to accessory bulb stimulation could be distinguished by the frequency of successful antidromic propagation into the soma.
(18) BL at the transection site in rats made immunologically unresponsive to central nervous system antigens is not significantly different from that of control rats, but rats treated with cyclophosphamide show a less complete BL cap during the first 25 days.
(19) Exposure of type 1 T cell clones to immobilized anti-CD3 antibody alone rapidly induced long-lasting proliferative unresponsiveness (anergy) to Ag stimulation that could be prevented by accessory cells.
(20) The main response characteristics are an immediate motor 'paralysis' (prolonged and generalized immobility), unresponsiveness, and abrupt and profound bradycardia.