Fear of liability appears to prevent professionals from disclosing errors [ 11, 20] and hospital insurance companies in the Netherlands explicitly forbid medical professionals to acknowledge culpability.
Two years ago, in an interview with the New Yorker to coincide with her first parole hearing, Boudin would only say: 'I was responsible for not being responsible' - a formula that had the effect of acknowledging culpability while simultaneously denying it.
So set aside Walt's acknowledged culpability: Does Jesse bear a great deal of responsibility for her death, and for the subsequent larger tragedy that unfolds?
The Saudi government has long denied any role in the Sept. 11 plot, and any negotiation with the United States could be viewed as acknowledging culpability.
My guess is, that thing is the innate human abhorrence of acknowledging culpability.
Indians must acknowledge their culpability for atrocities during the partition, for example.
While Turkey does not deny that many died, it has rejected the term genocide and has prosecuted people who have publicly acknowledged Turkish culpability for it.
As much as the Jets say they want to move beyond one of the more disappointing periods in franchise history — a message stressed in Ryan's remarks Monday both to his players and to reporters — Holmes's aversion to publicly acknowledging any culpability for their demise last season leaves the impression that not much has changed with him at all.
I first, ahem, blew my nose, stridently, about 15 minutes in after one very cut-glass upper-middle class mother told of her repeated, insanely determined attempts by letter to get Tony Blair to acknowledge even passing culpability for the death of her daughter, and of the understandably anodyne eventual response.
Turnout in London last week was hailed as a triumph, a whopping 44% – but still lower than in 2008... Getting voters out is an obsession for politicians – they all like to imagine that had people been lured away from the TV to the polling booth they would have won – but too often they fail to acknowledge their own culpability for the apathy and active dislike among the electorate.
If the past is any measure, however, few will acknowledge their own culpability for the media circus, or the defamation of character that endued.
