Sentence examples for culpa from inspiring English sources

Hillary Clinton's mea culpa at the United Nations on Tuesday was supposed to tamp down the scandal over her use of a private email address as secretary of state.

Confronted with this recent outpouring of anti-Thatcher sentiments, I am struck by the strident tones from "wronged" miners and other working people, and a marked absence of any mea culpa.

Its first hurdle is executing a grand political mea culpa, convincing voters that - despite its own excoriating assessments - they were in fact right about Rudd and Labor itself was wrong.

Völler accepted Rijkaard's mea culpa and the incident was later put to bed when the pair agreed to break bread – and spread butter – together for a TV commercial, with both their fees going to charity.

That mea culpa appeared in its daily paper last month, along with the company telling the City that the cash it has set aside to cover the costs of the civil claims had increased from £4m to £12m.

This isn't a confession, lament, or "mea culpa" (though perhaps it should be); it's just a fact.

Mea culpa – I indulge in my share of Tory-bashing, but I keep it to politicians not civilians.

But sources close to Blair insist that he is not in any way indulging in a mea culpa over past interventions by the west, including in Iraq.

CANDID mea culpas are rare among politicians.

Consider this inconspicuous gem from the latest quarterly report of Magyar Telekom, Hungary's largest telecoms company:"In the course of conducting their audit of the Company's 2005 financial statements, PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Company's auditors, identified two contracts the nature and business purposes of which were not readily apparent to them".It is one of a series of mea culpas.

But like the rush to mea a few culpas elsewhere, the strategy is a response to a subtle but palpable shift in the public mood.