Sentence examples for a culpable act from inspiring English sources

"But one does reach a limit: where to remain silent becomes a culpable act.

In fact it is the spiritual, rather than the physical, exploitation of Karin that is shown to be the more culpable act.

Because even though culpable acts are almost always individual acts, blame is often shared widely.

When an individual's ethnicity, nationality, religion, beliefs or gender differs from their victim it seems inevitable that -- just as our laudable acts sometimes reflect positively on others who look, dress or act like us in other ways -- those culpable acts reflect negatively on others as well.

For former shipyard worker Jimmy Cloughley, 77, that approach showed a culpable lack of imagination.

The term "deprivation" indicates a culpable omission, or even an act robbing someone of the possibility of being someone or doing something.

"Defendants have acted with a culpable state of mind" Sutton wrote in a letter to Judge Robert Sweet, the federal court judge overseeing the case, "by destroying relevant electronic and hard-copy documents".

The term "deprivation" indicates a culpable omission, or even an explicit act robbing someone of the possibility of being someone or doing something.

In the film, he was the victim – a culpable cherub.

Subsequently, a culpable homicide charge was brought against him but he never returned to face it.

Walker was arrested late Tuesday and faces a culpable negligence charge.