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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:
 
 ##Our Responsibilities
 
-Project maintainers are responsible for clarifying the standards of acceptable behavior and are expected to take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any instances of unacceptable behavior.
+Project maintainers reserve the right take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any instances of unacceptable behavior.
 
 Project maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, or to ban temporarily or permanently any contributor for other behaviors that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.