devolve on

VERB
  1. be contingent on
    The outcomes rides on the results of the election
    Your grade will depends on your homework
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How To Use devolve on In A Sentence

  • When the company president is ill,most of his work will devolve onhis deputy.
  • Why is it always that responsibilities like this devolve on me?
  • Or should responsibility only devolve on two or three of them who bought the last rounds?
  • When the company president is ill,most of his work will devolve onhis deputy.
  • It was inevitable that spiritual power should devolve on the urban temples.
  • It was agreed at the meeting that control of access to the records was your function as Secretary to the Inquiry, but that ultimately the responsibility would devolve on the Treasury.
  • In 1986, the government of India passed a bill which increased the punishment for accepting dowry and decreed that in cases where a woman died an unnatural death, her property would devolve on her children or be returned to her parents.
  • While credit for the good is claimed by both, accountability for the ills like rampant tree cutting does not devolve on either.
  • It was inevitable that spiritual power should devolve on the urban temples.
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