(1) There’s no doubt there was a tactical setback, although Ramadi had been vulnerable for a very long time.” The president put the onus on Iraqis to find a solution.
(2) The onus is now on Michael Garcia, the former New York attorney who has already spent a reported £6m and travelled the world collecting evidence for a report that is due to be passed to the adjudicatory chamber of Fifa's ethics committee later this year, to prove he has taken the new evidence seriously.
(3) As the talks quickly broke down in Luxembourg, in Brussels, Donald Tusk, the president of the European council, promptly convened an emergency leaders’ summit on Monday evening, putting the onus on both Merkel and Tsipras as the two key leaders to bend towards concessions to clinch a deal.
(4) In trachoma, the lack of simple definitive laboratory diagnostic procedures suitable for wide application has placed the onus largely, and usually exclusively, on clinical observation.The study reported is based on the recorded observations of two skilled ophthalmologists in an epidemiological survey covering more than 35 000 persons in Taiwan.
(5) With three weeks left to election day, the onus is on Obama to mount a strong comeback in Tuesday's Long Island debate to undo some of the damage caused by his dismal showing in the first of the presidential debates in Denver a fortnight ago.
(6) One of the big reasons why people aren’t able to make very effective transitions from one job to another is that their skills aren’t up to date and a major contributor to that is not having the opportunity to train.” Individuals have to take ownership of their careers, he says, but there is also an onus on the government and employers to provide work programmes and apprenticeships to maintain a skilled older workforce.
(7) At other banks the onus seems to be on customers to spot all rogue payments.
(8) Various radical plans for tackling the crisis have been floated, including putting the onus on north African countries to patrol the seas and process migrants in their own transit camps.
(9) Increasingly our standards we will be judged against the behaviour of other companies and agencies, with the onus to show that we operate to the highest standards.
(10) "The onus is on us to help the best we can but we can't do something for nothing," he said.
(11) The onus was on the players who had not played as much to come in, take up the challenge and show what they had got for next season – and for the young lads to come in and show that they would love to have this opportunity to play on a regular basis,” said Sam Allardyce.
(12) Nagpaul says: “There is real potential here if it works effectively, but the onus is on NHS England to get it right.
(13) The onus should be on those who want to make such large changes, and to profit from them, to demonstrate their quality - the more conspicuous a building the more important it is that it is well-designed.
(14) Brandis also rejected concerns the national security legislation reversed the onus of proof on people suspected of being terrorists and said arguments the legislation allowed Asio to torture people were a “red herring”.
(15) But the onus is on his leave colleagues now to prove their case, that leave would not harm Britain but benefit it.
(16) And the reason why we haven't had a prosecution is because we're putting the onus on young children to actually come forward, so we're talking about working with cutters but that's in Africa.
(17) Mike van Dulken, Head of Research at Accendo Markets , explains: While Italian political chaos likely to persist as discussions take place on coalition formation, investors still looked to put more onus on US Fed Chairman’s statement that quantitative easing was here to stay.
(18) The latest loss to Southampton prompted the Chelsea owner, Roman Abramovich, to issue a public vote of confidence in the manager, with the onus now on the Portuguese to instigate a revival beginning with Saturday’s visit of Aston Villa to Stamford Bridge.
(19) The onus in legislation is on the disabled person getting their rights enforced rather than the employer.
(20) 3.03am BST 26 mins Jamaica haven't yet really troubled the US goal too much and the onus is on them to do so.
Opus
Definition:
(n.) A work; specif. (Mus.), a musical composition.
Example Sentences:
(1) It traces his progress of degradation unhampered by constituted authority and concludes with his magnum opus--the greatest massacre of South Sea Islanders in the annals of the South Sea slave trade.
(2) Five therapeutic drug assays, carbamazepine, phenobarbital, phenytoin, theophylline, and valproic acid, were evaluated using an automated random access system for performing thin dry film multilayer competitive immunoassays, the OPUS analyzer.
(3) The American author Jonathan Franzen might justly be called a perfectionist: his latest opus, Freedom, took nine years of painstaking effort to complete inside a spartan writing studio – and is now being widely acclaimed as a modern masterpiece.
(4) At the weekend, the film's director Ron Howard turned down requests by the Catholic organisation Opus Dei to add a disclaimer at the beginning of the film while a leading cardinal called for legal action against the film and the book, saying that they were offensive to Jesus Christ and the Catholic church.
(5) The results of laparoscopic (lap) and transvaginal (TV) oocyte pickups (OPUs) performed concurrently for in vitro fertilization in 232 consecutive treatment cycles have been reviewed.
(6) Hizmet, which has relatively moderate Islamist views, also has some of the characteristics of a cult or of an Islamic Opus Dei.
(7) Britain’s largest coal power producer, Drax, is bidding to buy Opus Energy and four gas stations in a move away from its coal legacy that has been welcomed by investors.
(8) Probably more centre than someone in Labour, not mentioning any names, who's actually Opus Dei – that is extreme right-wing thinking."
(9) The letter from the BBC, promising to produce his latest magnum opus, which always arrives on April 1.
(10) (3) Heep's 1970 prog-metal opus Bird of Prey is sampled.
(11) Earlier this month Drax said it was bidding to buy business energy provider Opus Energy and four gas stations as part of the move away from coal.
(12) I pictured Baghdad as Black Hawk Down’s Mogadishu, all claustrophobic and high-contrast gun battles with desperate men in dark alleys, and mostly I heard Ride of the Valkyries, that grim killing opus in Apocalypse Now, retrofitted for our urban assaults and nighttime raids.
(13) Dell'Utri, arrived North from his native Sicily, was a severe youth, mixing in Mafia circles and a member of the ultra-orthodox Opus Dei; Berlusconi was a crooner on cruise liners.
(14) This paper emphasizes the historical value of this opus and makes comments on the illustrations.
(15) "A disclaimer could have been a way for Sony to show that the company wants to be fair and respectful in its treatment of Christians and the Catholic church," Opus Dei's US spokesman Brian Finnerty told the Reuters news agency yesterday.
(16) The Opus deal is subject to the European commission approving a UK government contract to support the conversion of one of its coal units to running on biomass.
(17) Other films that have recently been cut for Chinese release – either by censors or their studios – include fantasy opus Cloud Atlas and the 2010 remake of The Karate Kid.
(18) Wire also does voice calls, with audio quality being one of its key selling points: clear and loud, using the Opus open source audio codec that was developed in part by the company’s chief scientist Koen Vos.
(19) And in her 1951 opus magnum The Origins of Totalitarianism , from which the above quotations derive, she warned that "a global, universally interrelated civilisation may produce barbarians from its own midst by forcing millions of people into conditions which, despite all appearances, are the conditions of savages".
(20) We found the OPUS assays acceptable for clinical use.