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Example sentences for "culpability"

Lexicographically close words:
culms; culo; culotte; culottes; culpa; culpable; culpably; culpados; culpam; culprit
  1. Having drawn me safely into their net, they intend to use my condemnation as proof of the insecurity of the frontier and the culpability of the Minister of War.

  2. The degree of guilt for lapses in this respect depends on the progress that has been made toward the completion of the marriage, the culpability growing progressively with the performance of each succeeding marriage ceremonial.

  3. Failing to anticipate the harmful consequences which may follow from drunkenness, they also fail to recognise the culpability of indulging in it.

  4. This investigating sham resulted, as almost always happened in the case of similar inquisitions, in the culpability being thrown upon certain lobbyists "who were enriched.

  5. That the railroads deliberately destroyed their own property and then charged the culpability to the strikers, was common report.

  6. Many instances have been cited, also, of the culpability of milk in distributing typhoid germs.

  7. The culpability of air in the dissemination of tuberculosis amongst animals has been made the subject of some very exhaustive and valuable investigations by Kasselmann.

  8. Considering the undesirable notoriety which these rodents have of late obtained in connection with their undoubted culpability in the dissemination of plague, this discovery, if correct, should be warmly welcomed.

  9. The appendix goes on-- "The management of the airline instructed its counsel to deny every allegation of fault, and to counter-attack by ascribing total culpability to the air crew .

  10. Severely she felt the almost culpability of an action, that risked implications of encouragement to a persevering though rejected man.

  11. I had a suspicion, doubtless of Taylorvillian extraction, that there was a sort of culpability in knowing; but it came back to me now almost with a thrill that I had known with Helmeth Garrett.

  12. I believe now that he was quite sincere in it, but there was a feeling among the rest of us that he carried the admission of culpability too far.

  13. He accordingly refrained from expressing any opinion in regard to Mr. Mansell's culpability to the two detectives, and finally dismissed them without any special orders.

  14. Upon admitting Lionel again to his presence, he spoke forcibly, though with brevity, upon the culpability of his conduct.

  15. But when we endeavour to divide the share of culpability for this dissension, we are on this occasion bound to admit that the chief blame attaches to Yakoob Beg.

  16. The American juries not only decide the question of a prisoner's culpability or innocence, but they themselves pronounce sentence.

  17. Generally speaking, however, the public prosecutor is disinclined to initiate proceedings in such cases, for the most part because it is held that the necessary understanding of culpability is commonly lacking.

  18. In determining the degree of culpability it is, however, of important whether the child against whom the offence has been committed was innocent and uncorrupted, or was one with previous sexual experiences.

  19. Christophe was therefore kept in the strictest solitary confinement by order of the cardinal and the lieutenant-general of the kingdom, for no other purpose than to give the judges proof of the culpability of the Prince de Conde.

  20. The measure of culpability and the measure of punishment cannot be determined by a study of the illegal act, but only by a study of the individual committing it.

  21. There can be no question," he said, "of culpability or of justice in the severe sense; the question is of the necessity of society preventing crime.

  22. The unworthy man sought to excuse himself by the despicable but all too common subterfuge of presumptuously charging culpability in another, and in this instance, that other was his Lord.

  23. The moral culpability of such an act is great in the extreme, while its consequences cannot be weighed or measured by any human norm or rule.

  24. On the other hand, one's culpability is not lessened by the accidental fact of one's intended insults going wide of the mark and bearing no fruit of dishonor to the person assailed.

  25. The ideal average prudent man, whose equivalent the jury is taken to be in many cases, and whose culpability or innocence is the supposed test, is a constant, and his conduct under given circumstances is theoretically always the same.

  26. If the resources which ought to have been devoted to them, had been diverted from them for the most prudent investment, the moral culpability would have been the same.

  27. There are a number of situations possible when damage done is grave and culpability slight.

  28. Of those who hold for restitution, some think that all the damage should be repaired, since all was caused; but others think that it suffices to repair part, since the culpability was limited.

  29. Two Cases in Which Culpability Seems Doubtful.

  30. Culpable ignorance, or culpable inadvertence, or error concerning the law or concerning the fact diminish imputability more or less in proportion to the culpability of the ignorance (Canon 2202, Sec.


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