His doctors did not want him to go at all; they forced him to sign a waiver, absolving them of any responsibility.
This is a convenient story because it absolves us of any need to put our own house in order through better regulation.I don't know how Mssrs Johnson and Kwak manage to interpret concern about global imbalances as absolving anyone other than China of blame.
On March 29th, a congressional investigative committee published a report absolving Lula of direct responsibility for the mensalão a bribery scam that has implicated a score of congressmen, the PT's top officials and the president's former chief of staff.
Once again, the main purpose of exposing the villains seems to be to take the opportunity to pile all the blame on Iran thereby absolving Turkey itself of responsibility for their misdeeds.All the same, though it is fair to doubt whether Mumcu's killers have really been found, many people with blood on their hands have clearly been rounded up.
Mr Leonhardt's argument comes too close to absolving the government of the responsibility to make policy appropriate to the state of the economy.
This was instead of absolving Mr Berlusconi of the offence, as he had requested.Controversy has dogged all three judge-bribing trials.
Geography can no longer be used as an excuse for absolving itself of any responsibility in the region.One reason for this shift is the rapid growth in China's demand for imported energy.
Thus Mr Xi cannot enlist the provinces for this revolution without absolving them of their debts once and for all.
Big corporations use self-help mumbo-jumbo to convince employees that they bear responsibility for their own fate, absolving employers from having to care for them.
EMI's operating businesses have already been sold; now the bank has got rid of the fund.Under a buy-out, an insurer is paid to take on the burden of paying the final-salary (or defined-benefit) pensions of current and future retirees, absolving the sponsoring company of all its obligations.
They were glad of the visit for the prestige it conferred on the state and they hope it will facilitate the passing of the schema at the Vatican Council absolving the Jews from corporate responsibility for the death of Christ; but they saw nothing to cheer in the visit of the head of the Roman Catholic Church.
