Sentence examples for attempt to absolve from inspiring English sources

Their own book feels like an attempt to absolve America of responsibility for a decision it took by, and for, itself.

For some, faulting the Iraqis is an attempt to absolve themselves (and the administration) of any blame for the current situation.

One difference between the two cases, though, will make it harder for defense lawyers to blame Mr. Bin Laden in an attempt to absolve their own clients.

By attempting to remove sympathy for the Jews by situating them as the new aggressors, both types of graffiti daubed on these posters attempt to absolve the perpetrators of the Holocaust and its collaborators.

A group of former British ambassadors have joined a campaign calling for Tony Blair to be removed from his role as Middle East envoy after his recent attempt to "absolve himself" of responsibility for the crisis in Iraq.

But when Shiva sees the handsome young boy or when the inauspicious planet Saturn (Shani) glances at him, in some variants of the myth that attempt to absolve Shiva of the crime he or one of his attendants cuts off the child's head.

אל תשאלו אותי איך זה קרה בדיוק Mr Netanyahu's comments sparked outrage, with Palestinian official Saeb Erekat accusing him of attempting to absolve Hitler.

In the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), the communist leaders attempted to absolve their population of responsibility for the crimes, portraying themselves as the victims of the Nazis, and Nazism as a manifestation of capitalism.

The result is "a complex apologia... that attempts to absolve a son of the sins of the father by establishing a larger and more generic ground for incrimination," Daphne Merkin wrote in the Book Review last year.

We are also dismayed, however, at Tony Blair's recent attempts to absolve himself of any responsibility for the current crisis by isolating it from the legacy of the Iraq war.

Last year, a group of former British ambassadors joined a campaign calling for Blair to be removed from his role as Middle East envoy, raising objections to the possible clash with his business interests and a attempts to "absolve himself" of responsibility for the crisis in Iraq.