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When you stop thinking in terms or "I" and start thinking "we" things can change dramatically.Is that because people feel less culpable if the culpability is spread?There is a diffusion of responsibility, yes.
But Schiltz said Novak was just as culpable.
To tell people to go home – and, by extension, trust the same officials who oversee institutions that have consistently failed Baltimore's black residents – just does not cut it as a response from the man whose acclaimed television series depicted precisely those failing, culpable institutions, no matter how horrendous the scenes shown on television were.
But on the first of those two matches in Basel, the Germans fielded numerous reserves, Hungary won 8-3, and Grosics, for once not taking matters too seriously, was culpable on the last two of those goals, disporting himself outside the penalty box.
Related: 'This is not the justice we seek': sorrow in Baltimore as grief turns into riots Occasionally interrupting himself to apologize to the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, who stood stoically beside him throughout the lecture, Obama said the question of Baltimore went beyond one of who was culpable for the death of Gray, or for the street violence that followed.
He earlier told Channel 4 News that the Ellison inquiry had assured him that there was no suggestion that he "did anything that was culpable in any way".
And every week, there is a new story about tax avoidance or outrageous corruption, both the main parties involved, both culpable , both apparently supine, even floppy, like rabbits in the jaws of corporate interests.
RBS has been culpable on pay and bonuses many times in the past, but on this occasion sympathy lies with the board.
Imagine if Monsanto had been culpable in the deaths of tens of thousands of children!
To all those who argue that this is what police officers do in all crimes, it is worth pointing out that few crimes suffer from so many myths and stereotypes as violence against women, where victims are often treated as complicit in their abuse and somehow culpable.
He suggested this was a managerial failing, though his squad will surely have been left feeling culpable.
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The adjective "culpable" primarily functions to attribute blame or fault to a person, entity, or action . Ludwig AI indicates its use in describing institutions or individuals deserving censure for wrongdoing. Examples show it modifying nouns like 'institutions', 'officials', and 'executives'.
Expression frequency: Very common
