Sentence examples for held blameless from inspiring English sources

Ms. Whelan must be held blameless here, along with the rest of her colleagues.

In a trial concluded last year, the ministers concerned were held blameless even though the facts about the government's response were not in dispute.

But the magazine and Mr. Botsford, whose editing of his wife's manuscript had been called into question by the plaintiff's lawyer, were held blameless.

"Vice President Gore is trying to sweep the military preparedness issue under the rug so he can be held blameless," she said.

Failure to make the rule a priority — in the face of a building boom over the last 15 years in Manhattan — rested with the departmental brass, who had been held blameless to date, union officials said.

But with jury selection nearly complete and opening arguments scheduled for Monday, there is little question that the city's culpability in the 2007 fire will be at issue during the trial, and will form a cornerstone of arguments by the defense lawyers that their clients — Jeffrey Melofchik, Mitchel Alvo, Salvatore DePaola and the John Galt Corporation — should be held blameless.

Cashman's bosses, Hal and Hank Steinbrenner, have held Girardi blameless for the Yankees' plunge.

Their meaning is that Hinckley was held legally blameless -- in the grip, on the day of the shootings, of a psychological defect that roiled his thinking and shut down his judgment.

Despite their responsibility for soliciting bids and awarding contracts for construction projects, construction authority officials have held themselves blameless for the higher-than-expected costs, saying they can spend only what they are authorized to spend by the Board of Education.

Siegelman was convicted on seven of 32 counts in 2006 before Fuller, who held prosecutors blameless for most of the many claims of prosecutorial misconduct.

Like the candidates, the pollsters naturally hold themselves blameless.