We are passive consumers of tragedy, absolved of responsibility to take action, to intervene.
Their organization and its leadership are absolved of responsibility, so nothing fundamental changes.
Ronaldo would be free to position himself wherever he wants and be absolved of responsibility to defend on Portugal's left flank.
To his dismay, each group warmly endorsed the message intended for the other, and both believed themselves absolved of responsibility until the other put its house in order.
Instead, the conventional left and right have turned politics into a spectator sport which the citizenry watches from afar, absolved of responsibility, waiting for a great leader to vanquish our enemies and come to our rescue.
This assured his continued popularity and absolved him of responsibility for subsequent events.
Then up stepped the Society of St. Pius X, a Roman Catholic group that rejects the church's modernizing overhauls — in particular, the teaching that absolved Jews of responsibility for the crucifixion of Jesus — and agreed to celebrate a furtive funeral in the town of Albano Laziale.
Now we have a completely different understanding of responsibility".
Landrieu fired the top two officials on the S&WB, but that hardly absolved him of responsibility for the mess.
Being absolved of legal responsibility for his documentary subjects, however, does not make shooting the program any easier.
To be sure, the coroner's jury had concluded that the explosive agent, whatever its nature, was not an integral part of the aircraft, but although this apparently absolved Canadian Pacific of responsibility, the company was far from satisfied.
