Sentence examples for culpable failure from inspiring English sources

The government's U-turn over the past week has been a culpable failure of British leadership.

Responding to the disclosures, Deborah Coles, co-director of Inquest, a charity that advises people bereaved by deaths in custody and detention, said: "That it took undercover filming to reveal the mistreatment of imprisoned children points to the culpable failure of monitoring and oversight by the YJB and G4S.

What is important is not the outcome for the person but rather the "culpable failure" on the part of the agent, including the failure to respect a future person's "value as capable of rational self-governance" by way of failing to take "risk-managing" measures (including, e.g, pre-conceptual genetic testing) on behalf of that future person (Kumar 2003, 104 114).

Mr. Evans says Britain appears "increasingly to have imported from the American media the assumption that terrorism is 100 percent preventable and any incident that is not prevented is seen as a culpable government failure".

The Saudi flip-flop may also smooth the feathers of Washington's hawks, many of whom hold the Al Saud family morally responsible, if not criminally culpable, for its failure to prevent some of its subjects from joining Osama bin Laden's jihad.

One approach is to hold the repeat offender guilty of a culpable omission: the failure "to organize his life in a way that reduces the risk of his reoffending" (Lee 2009: 578).

"That defendant failed Paris and that failure was culpable and we say was criminal".

If Russia and Iran have been culpable, there has been a catastrophic failure of diplomacy by the west and its allies.

In this failure, we are all culpable, whether for our actions or for inaction that has allowed the status quo to become mediocrity.

After the white woman subsequently died of heart failure, the defendant was charged with "culpable negligence with injury".

The UN report subsequently published with respect to the betrayal of the UN mandate to protect the UN/NATO designated safe area of Srebrenica acknowledged multiple failures, but it largely skirted the culpable role played by the major capitals.