Sentence examples for culpable to the from inspiring English sources

Passed from the culpable to the unwary and back again.

"The responses by judges show that they think these cases are not strong enough, that the defendants are not culpable to the extent that they should receive prison terms," Mr. Gershman said.

Anti-Semitism seems to be an especially insidious prejudice, and in moments like this, as Howard Jacobson once wrote for this paper, we risk "a gradual habituation to the language of loathing, passed from the culpable to the unwary and back again".

And, indeed, Washington is culpable to the extent that it has not curbed the antigrowth proclivities of the IMF (thankfully both Argentina and Brazil no longer owe this agency money and thus can, if they wish, pursue sensible economic policies) and our own Treasury Department, which remains in thrall to the belief that high taxes and inflation-inducing currency devaluations are the path to wealth.

I don't think he believed he was innocent, but I think he may have thought he was not sufficiently culpable to warrant the death penalty".

Faced with officers who won't talk, Ivey says he uses the same tools he deploys against street thugs: "You find the little fish and try to flip them; you try to get the less culpable to testify against the more culpable in exchange for lighter punishment". Prosecutors say there's an important distinction between why cops and citizens in high-crime areas don't talk.

It is the pacifist position that holds Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon morally culpable to have helped the South Vietnamese defend their nation from Communist invaders from the north.

He then showed culpable leniency to the offenders, merely dismissing from his secretaryship Sir John Dalrymple, on whom responsibility for the massacre was finally placed.

A more culpable indifference to the broader context is displayed in Robinson's sympathetic treatment of those English players who embarked on a rebel tour to apartheid South Africa the next year.

According to Kant, what matters in morality is one's motivation, and a moral agent is culpable only to the extent that her actions depend on factors under her control.

Science administrators are also culpable, according to the report.