We must each take responsibility for our own actions.ourour /aʊə $ aʊr/ ●●● S1 W1 determiner [possessive form of ‘we’] 
a picture of our grandchildren You can stay at our house. We must preserve our natural environment. We must each take responsibility for our own actions.2spoken used to show that the person mentioned is your child, brother, or sister – used in northern England: Our Sharon did really well in her exams.
WORD ORIGINour
Origin:
Old English ureCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY We must each take responsibility for our own actions.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Flight delays do occur, for reasons that are outside our control. We put our watches forward by 2 hours.
We must each take responsibility for our own actions. Flight delays do occur, for reasons that are outside our control. (=sending reports from a particular place – used by a newspaper or TV station)· This report comes direct from our Tel Aviv correspondent.
We put our watches forward by 2 hours. formal (=used when saying that you hope very much that something will or will not happen)· It is our fervent hope that change is coming.
(=judging by what we are used to)· The equipment was very old-fashioned by our standards.
formal (=used to formally express sympathy)· Our sympathy goes out to Peggy in her great loss.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► with the compliments of somebody/with our compliments
1belonging to or connected with us: - By looking to the Bible and seeking spiritual guidance, he is taking steps to reconcile our differences.
- Despite our differences, I had no need or desire to slam the new administration.
- If our needs conflict I am certainly ready to explore our differences and I may be prepared to compromise.
- In recent weeks the two groups had buried their differences to stage joint armed protests across the country.
- So do you think that we could put our differences aside for just one evening?
- We discussed our differences and agreed to call an armistice.
- When you are weighing up which lender to go to for your loan, you ignore their differences at your peril.
- It is this that prompts a deep feeling of compassion for the sub-human world and for all our fellow men.
- That is, better an unattainable ideal than a limited attainable goal when it comes to the welfare of our fellow men.
- Our friend with the loud voice is back.
- After an hour our man was still bludgeoning away.
- As our men did not wish to write-off two company cars, the youth escaped.
- In our scheme, we do not ask for the initiative of our men.
- One of our men spotted a freshly dug fighting position.
- She asked if there were no more warriors among our men.
- The fire was the most terrible enemy our men met that day.
- We hide behind our men, peeping at each other in a curious and suspicious fashion.
- He slaughtered our men in forty minutes.
- Soon, reports our man in the black wellies, all he had left were four golden orfe and a koi.
- Still there was no demoralization of our men in line.
- Their eyes met across the crowded room.
- As the woman searched for a seat, their eyes met and held.
- As their eyes met, Quinn suddenly felt that Stillman had become invisible.
- But when our eyes meet, the invisible daggers fly.
- In between times he looked out the window or stared at me, smiling when our eyes met.
- The family could hear her swift heavy steps, up there, and did not let their eyes meet.
- Then their eyes met and it was not about money.
- When their eyes meet she envisions the fulfillment of her dream of marrying a man with aristocratic connections not from Middlemarch.
- Another athlete with those same qualities now toils in our midst.
- As we rushed to prepare to open the Sale there appeared in our midst an unknown young man.
- But when the others sat for the Scripture readings, Ray McGovern remained upright in their midst, provoking wariness and speculation.
- Downstairs, when Jessica had stormed out, her parents had found themselves remarkably constrained by the stranger in their midst.
- He was the weevil in the fruit, according to Rex, the canker in their midst.
- People living in Surrey Street say they are tired of an unhealthy eyesore in their midst.
- The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and working in our midst.
- They insisted that the explosive events occurring in their midst were the work of the Holy Spirit.
- Even after the Renaissance and the rebirth of learning had reached these shores ears were still having a rough ride.
- His job was to show the captains of industry who came to these shores how to relax.
- In fact, nobody had made paved roads in Britain since the Romans left our shores.
- Meanwhile, beyond our shores, the world's industrial practices and capacities advanced.
- More than six centuries ago they had left these shores for Hamgyong Province in the North in search of a better life.
- The battle was lost, though, when many in high places yielded to pressures from beyond these shores.
- The reason the world and his wife head for these shores is they know that their chances of deportation are virtually non-existent.
- What would happen to us if 10,000 of them showed up on our shores?
a picture of our grandchildren You can stay at our house. We must preserve our natural environment. We must each take responsibility for our own actions.2spoken used to show that the person mentioned is your child, brother, or sister – used in northern England: Our Sharon did really well in her exams.