What's the difference between mismanage and responsibility?

Mismanage


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To manage ill or improperly; as, to mismanage public affairs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But sanctions and mismanagement took their toll, and the scale of the long-awaited economic catharsis won’t be grand,” he says.
  • (2) But the investigation was not published until almost a year after the whistleblower's approach, as the National Union of Teachers prepared to publish its own documents about the mismanagement at the free school.
  • (3) In most developing countries, however, treatment services are limited, coverage of the infected female population is inadequate, and women seeking treatment are likely to be mismanaged.
  • (4) "We believe that this is unavoidable following the recent costs to all the citizens of the UK as a result of banking failures, mismanagement and improper practices," said a spokesperson for the City Reform Group.
  • (5) Sanchez hasn't worked out because the Jets have mismanaged him, but that doesn't take away from the fact that the actual trade itself reflects good value still today.
  • (6) To avoid the pitfalls of misdiagnosis and mismanagement, the nature of Crohn's disease should be understood and the gynecologic aspects of the disease recognized.
  • (7) Epithelioid sarcoma (ES) occasionally may be confused, both clinically and histologically, with isolated necrobiotic granulomas (ING), leading to misdiagnosis and potential mismanagement of these conditions.
  • (8) He casts Livingstone's tenure as one big financial mismanagement and contrasts this to his own administration, which, he argues, has been rewarded by the coalition government for responsibly cutting waste with funding that will allow major infrastructure investments such as Crossrail and tube upgrades to go ahead.
  • (9) But then a mismanaged clean-up in an underground garbage dump ignited a seam of anthracite eight miles long that proved impossible to extinguish.
  • (10) The correction is likely to anger the families of those missing, particularly in China, where there have been accusations that Malaysia has mismanaged the search and deliberately withheld information.
  • (11) But this week, after months of conflicting statements, the government said it would seek financial help from the IMF in a bid to end a deepening currency crisis exacerbated by mismanagement of oil revenues.
  • (12) Mismanagement and ballooning costs saw the price tag leap to more than $12bn by 1993, and under Clinton Congress finally voted for building work on the collider to be scrapped.
  • (13) Urban political corruption and financial mismanagement have only deepened tensions.
  • (14) Billions and billions raised in the name of people in Bangladesh, in Somalia, in our name, that are mismanaged and used inefficiently.” And anyone expecting her to pipe down soon is in for a disappointment.
  • (15) Not long ago, Imperial College's medicine department were told that their "productivity" target for publications was to "publish three papers per annum including one in a prestigious journal with an impact factor of at least five.″ The effect of instructions like that is to reduce the quality of science and to demoralise the victims of this sort of mismanagement.
  • (16) And that world of popular journalism, as I saw it then, and the Herald eventually mutated through the mismanagement of the Mirror Group, its eventual owners, into ...
  • (17) Domestic economic mismanagement is a big part of the problem, with particular criticism of government cuts in fuel and food subsidies despite public and parliamentary opposition.
  • (18) The former chairman blamed "mismanagement" for the retailer's dire predicament, and is interested in acquiring some of its stores to add to his DW Sports Fitness chain.
  • (19) He claimed Osborne’s own economic mismanagement, particularly a swingeing supplementary duty imposed in 2011, was partly to blame for the sector’s slump.
  • (20) Photograph: Thomas Karlsson Writer Will Coldwell put on his best hipster brogues, turned up his jeans, and sought out a different side of Europe’s major cities in covering these innovative walking tours that revel in art, history, food, drink – and even financial mismanagement.

Responsibility


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable, as for a trust, debt, or obligation.
  • (n.) That for which anyone is responsible or accountable; as, the resonsibilities of power.
  • (n.) Ability to answer in payment; means of paying.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Intestinal dilatation seemed in all cases a response to elevated CO2 only.
  • (2) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
  • (3) Furthermore, it had early diagnostic (seven days) as well as prognostic value, as revealed by response to therapy and decrease in COA titer.
  • (4) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
  • (5) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
  • (6) These channels may, at least in some cases, be responsible for the generation of pacemaker depolarizations, thereby regulating firing behaviour.
  • (7) Oxyhaemoglobin (4 microns at 0.35 ml.min-1) infused into the tracheal circulation almost abolished the responses to bradykinin and methacholine.
  • (8) Three categories of UV response have been identified.
  • (9) LHRH therapy leads to higher plasma LH levels and a lower FSH in response to an intravenous LHRH test.
  • (10) Bronchial challenge caused an immediate asthmatic response.
  • (11) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
  • (12) The telencephalic proliferative response has been studied in adult newts after lesion on the central nervous system.
  • (13) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
  • (14) In addition, this pretreatment protocol did not modify the recipient immune response against B-lymphocyte alloantigens which developed in unsuccessful transplants.
  • (15) In dogs, cibenzoline given i.v., had no effects on the slow response systems, probably because of sympathetic nervous system intervention since the class 4 effects of cibenzoline appeared after beta-adrenoceptor blockade.
  • (16) As a consequence, similar response curves were obtained for urine specimens containing morphine or barbiturates.
  • (17) At the early phase of the sensitization a T-cell response was seen in vitro, characterized by an increased spleen but no peripheral blood lymphocyte reactivity to T-cell mitogens at the same time as increased reactivity to the sensitizing antigen was detected.
  • (18) The ability of azelastine to influence antigen-induced contractile responses (Schultz-Dale phenomenon) in isolated tracheal segments of the guinea-pig was investigated and compared with selected antiallergic drugs and inhibitors of arachidonic acid metabolism.
  • (19) With aging, the blood vessel wall becomes hyperreactive--presumably because of an augmented vasoconstrictor and a reduced vasodilator responsiveness.
  • (20) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.