Sentence examples similar to excuses responsibility from inspiring English sources

The racist cast of Wagner's thought, particularly late in his life, was intense, but Herr N. is adamant that the composer be excused responsibility for what the Nazis made of his operas: "They sought in them not the disturbing and ever-changing power of sound and story, but rather the hard confirmation of their ideology".

The fact that they're having a dialogue doesn't excuse your responsibility to ensure that the organisation as a whole wasn't at risk".

I'm not going to start making excuses or shifting responsibility".

This malpractice model leads to all sorts of excuses to shirk responsibility.

I believe that leadership is not about making excuses but taking responsibility -- and that's what Ben-Ami can bring with her into the office.

Stop making excuses and accept responsibility for your life.

I'm not suggesting that gigantic books are useful only as an excuse for avoiding responsibility.

Some local officials said the assertion of racism was used as an excuse for avoiding responsibility.

But it must never serve as a way of excusing our own responsibility as we watch species after species die out during our tenacious occupation of the globe.

That has not always been smooth, but politicians have learned that it pays to be flexible, for example by finding ways for ministers from small parties to be excused from collective responsibility on certain sensitive issues.

By the same token, the bad acts of a few dozen, or even a few hundred, men are not an excuse for abdicating responsibility in the face of a human tragedy that has engulfed millions.