Sentence examples for in the absence of wrongdoing from inspiring English sources

As the researchers say, this aggression can be activated even "in the absence of wrongdoing or provocation from the target of aggression".

The majority might have concluded that "rejection" should refer to machine malfunction, or that a ballot should not be treated as "rejected" in the absence of wrongdoing by election officials, lest contests be so easy to claim that every election will end up in one.

The majority might have concluded that "rejection" should refer to machine malfunction, or that a ballot should not be treated as "reject ed" in the absence of wrongdoing by election officials, lest contests be so easy to claim that every election will end up in one.

The second, less understood but far more sinister effect of these classified programs, is that they effectively create "permanent records" of our daily activities, even in the absence of any wrongdoing on our part.

In that case, the State Supreme Court continued, when there is strong evidence that voting improprieties changed the result intended by voters, "the court is to void the contested election even in the absence of fraud or intentional wrongdoing".

The court upheld Mr. Vogel's election, but its unanimous 1998 opinion said that if a court found "substantial noncompliance with statutory election procedures and also makes a factual determination that reasonable doubt exists as to whether a certified election expressed the will of the voters," it could void the election -- even in the absence of fraud or intentional wrongdoing.

Given that no criminal charges whatsoever were ever levied against Crow, it might appear that the agency went overboard in its efforts to monitor his activities, but as the FBI's new manual reveals, such surveillance--even in the absence of credible evidence suggesting wrongdoing--is par for the course.

Exceptions would only occur for very small cases and for cases in which management could prove to the bankruptcy court the absence of any wrongdoing.

The judiciary, for its part, has not contested the idea, though admittedly there has been no real test case in which substantial evidence of a president's personal criminal wrongdoing existed in the absence of impeachment proceedings in Congress.

Research integrity is an active, positive pursuit, and not merely the absence of scientific wrongdoing.

The willing and open invitation for scrutiny suggests the absence of deliberate wrongdoing and demonstrates genuine commitment to customer loyalty and restitution.