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.
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.
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.
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?
"I'd be angry too!" Rubio says, if he lived in the stench without acknowledging his culpability in creating conditions for the stench in the first place.
America should begin to acknowledge its culpability in supporting oppressive regimes in the Middle East and forge instead a consistent policy of preferential treatment for governments progressing toward democracy.
But the Justice Department has indicated that before it would consider withdrawing the indictment, Andersen would have to acknowledge its culpability in the document destruction.
His refusal to acknowledge US culpability in invading Afghanistan was dishonest, since America did not have to succumb to kneejerk vengeance after the 11 September attacks, especially since the Taliban were a monster of US-Pakistani making.
To his Israeli admirers, John Paul is the pope who finally extended full recognition to their country -- a step consistent with his earlier decisions to become the first pope to pray in a synagogue, the first to acknowledge Catholic culpability in the Holocaust, the first to declare anti-Semitism a sin "against God and man".
If we are to have outsourcing, shouldn't the politicians who ran the show over three decades acknowledge their culpability in turning the civil service into a commissioning and contract-letting organisation without giving it the tools and resources to do it properly?
