Sample Sentences foronus (auto-selected)
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Why should the injured, the still bleeding, bear the onus of forgiveness? (source)onus = burden
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They didn't have to use the Mortal Sword onus, we would have told the Council the truth, but they used it anyway.† (source)
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Then on me be the onus of bringing it forward.† (source)
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Under the Sabotage Law, the onus was on the defense to prove the accused innocent.† (source)
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Marie was tempted, but the onus of officialdom prohibited the shortcut.† (source)
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Penalty kicks, especially in youth soccer, were almost always converted, so Anderson had taken to teaching his goalies to relax by reminding themselves that the onus was entirely on the player taking the kick: he was supposed to score, and no one—least of all the keeper's teammates—expected a stop.† (source)
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I suppose I couldn't convince myself— couldn't quite believe that they meant to come and visit that destruction onus.† (source)
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I think it would be just to say that the onus of proof lies with you.† (source)
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Now they must either attack the fort and accept the onus of striking the first blow, or face an indefinite and enervating occupation of Sumter by Anderson's soldiers.† (source)
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Isn't that always what celebrities are wearing when they show up onUs Weekly 's "What Were They Thinking?" page?† (source)
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He himself favoured "Lest We Forget," which put the onus where it should be: on our own forgetfulness.† (source)
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"Look, Isabelle," Simon said, figuring that the onus was on him to start the discussion.† (source)
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Botha wanted the onus of violence to rest on my shoulders and I wanted to reaffirm to the world that we were only responding to the violence done to us.† (source)
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I told him I fully supported the guidelines the ANC had adopted in the Harare Declaration of 1989, which put the onus on the government to eliminate the obstacles to negotiations that the state itself had created.† (source)
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He left upon her the onus of further speech.† (source)
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He therefore had recourse to his usual receipt of patience, for, though he was not a great adept in Latin, he remembered, and well understood, the advice contained in these words —Leve fit quod bene fertur onus in English: A burden becomes lightest when it is well borne— which he had always in his mouth; and of which, to say the truth, he had often occasion to experience the truth.† (source)
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