Sentence examples for instead of absolving from inspiring English sources
This was instead of absolving Mr Berlusconi of the offence, as he had requested.Controversy has dogged all three judge-bribing trials.
Not everyone accepted the idea of absolving the Syrian government.
Our third conceptual category is that of absolving the self.
For the next 11 weeks, they would speak only in the third person, calling themselves "this recruit" instead of "I" to absolve all individuality.
Instead of pandering to the thugs, absolving them, accepting their parroted excuses that society made them what they are, we should instead look at the practical realities of their choices - and if we want to, see if we can steer future generations towards a less destructive choice.
It says a great deal about the status of artists in Italy by the mid-15th century that Pius II, instead of visiting some terrible punishment on Filippo Lippi and his lover, absolved them of their vows.
But when it comes to the last point, instead of blaming the perpetrator, that blame shifts from the perpetrator to the victim, absolving all accountability of the one responsible.
Instead of denouncing them or, at the least, taking a more neutral stance, Jeter absolved Posada.
Instead of telling a largely untrue story about a system in decline — a story that absolves us of any personal responsibility — we might begin telling a different story: about a system that works.
But instead of tackling the fires it had created for itself, the company took to discrediting and deflecting in an effort to distance or absolve itself from the responsibility of the mess that it helped create.
