Sentence examples for exculpate himself from inspiring English sources

A year later he also sought to exculpate himself in the pages of a ghost-written autobiography, Between the Lines.

"He has faced up to what he has done and not sought to argue that it was purely accidental and to exculpate himself from any blame.

Perhaps any adverse consequences resulting from these anomalous characteristics might be in some measure overcome if the defendant could be assured of the opportunity to try to exculpate himself by an explanation delivered in an organized, complete and coherent way.

Hamilton, one of the framers of the Constitution, "confessed to a tawdry extramarital love affair to exculpate himself from the charge of colluding with speculators," said Jeffrey L. Pasley, a historian at Florida State University in Tallahassee.

As for Greenspan's argument that the whole mess is China's fault, she says tartly: "This attempt to exculpate himself is not convincing.

Manningham, desperate to exculpate himself, published a diary of his observations of Mary Toft, together with an account of her confession of the fraud, on 12 December.

The prime suspect, a resident of Florida, after initially refusing to coöperate, has reportedly become more talkative, but only in the interest of exculpating himself.

Yet there's a critical omission at work here, and one that exculpates Trump himself from his own cynical and nasty presidential campaign.

Nor, equally, did she try to exculpate herself.

That context would presumably exculpate Thompson as someone who imagined himself to be the best possible candidate for "doing away with Medicaid and Medicare".

But its investigation does something important and humane, which is to exculpate another person who, inevitably otherwise, would have blamed himself.