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We lost the ball and put the onus on the defense again.
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Is the onus on the public to "understand" art or on the artist to produce work that provokes ideas or emotions?
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Why should the injured, the still bleeding, bear the onus of forgiveness? (source)onus = burden
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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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Marie was tempted, but the onus of officialdom prohibited the shortcut.† (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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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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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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Under the Sabotage Law, the onus was on the defense to prove the accused innocent.† (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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"Maybe even the light of day, let alone this—" he indicated the single globe stained and bug-fouled from the long summer and which even when clean gave off but little light—"which man had to invent to his need since, relieved of the onus of sweating to live, he is apparently reverting (or evolving) back into a nocturnal animal, would be too much for it, for them.† (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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Then on me be the onus of bringing it forward.† (source)
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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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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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