Sentence examples for imputing responsibility from inspiring English sources

Mr. Maples's case "is a textbook illustration of why the doctrine of imputing responsibility to the client for a lawyer's mistake is so out of touch with reality," said Deborah L. Rhode, an authority on indigent defense and legal ethics at Stanford.

Devised by Allied judges and prosecutors at the Nuremberg tribunals, it was a means to impute responsibility for wartime atrocities to Nazi leaders, who often communicated indirectly and avoided leaving a paper trail.

Once this duty is reinterpreted, international law allows victim-states to impute state responsibility to host-states that neglected this duty, and respond in self-defense.

But when we consider our community's challenges, we tend to minimize our responsibility, imputing the problem instead to factors beyond our control.

This ignorance can often be imputed to personal responsibility .

They do it with insults, imputing personal awfulness.

*An intuitive biology, used to understand the living world by imputing an essence to living things.

But he seems to go farther in imputing good will to corporate special interests.

When this happens, Ryan complains that his opponents are imputing things that he has never said.

But he criticized the relentless media coverage of the scandal, and the imputing of any responsibility to Mr. Paulino.

Action includes "saying inasmuch as it is a doing, ordinary action inasmuch as it is an intervention into the course of things, narration inasmuch as it is the narrative reassembling of a life stretched out in time, and finally, the capacity to impute to oneself or to others the responsibility for acting" ("De l'esprit," Revue Philosophique de Louvain 92 19944): 248).