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  • noun uncountable The quality of being sibilate
  • noun countable sibilation

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Examples

  • Chris Christie accused both the White House and Republicans in Congress of irrespon sibility for failing to propose fixes for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

    Deficit Plan Details Emerge Jonathan Weisman 2011

  • A previous study investigating the sibility of discrimination in patterns of sentencing was carried out by Roger Hood in the West Midlands in 1992.

    Race variation in jail sentences, study suggests 2011

  • One novel pos-sibility is Mullerian-inhibiting substance (MIS), a naturally occurring protein.

    Breast and Ovarian Cancer: New Hopes, Longer Life 2007

  • We naturalist do not embrace theism ,because we shirk responsiblity,but because we embrace respon sibility for our lives and our morality.

    Genomics and the vacuity of Intelligent Design - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • His answer is no: God's intervention within the cell can be demonstrated through the elimination of every pos-sibility other than conscious design.

    Saving Us from Darwin Crews, Frederick C. 2001

  • This Act is a valuable affirmation of the Federal Government's respon-sibility and moral obligation to provide an orderly system to ensure a secure retirement for surplus Federal research chimpanzees and to meet their lifetime needs for shelter and care.

    Statement By President On Signing Into Law Hr Clinton, Bill, 1946- 2000

  • Safety is a command respon-sibility at all echelons.

    FM 9-6 Chapter 6 United States Army 1998

  • The problem of undeclared weapons stockpiles is complicated by the pos sibility that Russia claims to have been destroying thousands of nuclear warheads per y ear since the end of the Cold War.

    Statement On Nuclear Deterrence 1998

  • Respon - sibility for the preparation and dissemination of relevant-material falls on all the agencies, including public, parastatal, private and non-governmental.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • All of us are at one regarding the respon - sibility government has, to save lives, by dealing with all perpetrators of violence, irrespective of the parties to which they claim to belong, and to ensure free political activity.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

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