The phrase "shared guilt" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where multiple parties feel responsible for a wrongdoing or a negative outcome.
Example: "In the aftermath of the scandal, there was a palpable sense of shared guilt among the board members."
Alternatives: "collective responsibility" or "mutual culpability."
What has been visible since then is a more familiar Mladic, arrogant and demanding, insisting not only on his own innocence but on the shared guilt of all of the Serbian people.
Mladic, who has refused to recognise the authority of the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, denied being a killer, adding that all Serbs bore a shared guilt for voting for President Slobodan Milosevic, the architect of the Balkan wars.
The movie contradicts two of the central ideas of "Eichmann in Jerusalem": it reveals Adolf Eichmann to have been an anti-Semitic ideologue, not a dispassionate bureaucrat, and it presents Jews who worked with the Jewish Councils under direction from Nazi authorities not as collaborators who shared guilt with the Nazis but as tragic heroes.
Mladic, who has refused to recognise the authority of the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, where he is expected to be extradited to this week on charges of genocide, also denied being a killer, adding that all Serbs bore a shared guilt for voting for President Slobodan Milosevic, architect of the Balkan wars.
"I feel the guilt is a shared guilt," he says, "But we are just a small cog in the machinery.
Emphasizing the shared guilt of citizens has implications for a further issue, concerned with how the dirty hands perpetrator should be treated after the event.
The commission errs egregiously, however, in insisting that the deficiencies that led to the Macondo blowout were "systemic," which suggests that several hundred exploration and production firms and related service companies share guilt for this disaster.
Many contestants shared the guilt, but the publicity spotlighted Mr. Van Doren because of his family's prominence.
Like everyone else, he applauded the performance loudly but wondered if others secretly shared his guilt.
Lacking that absolution, such souls could not be granted the same final destiny of souls freed from the shared inherited guilt of original sin.
Perhaps wider society is having a final feeding frenzy, before slowly moving on, with a sense of shared retrospective guilt, from its obsession with the changing nature of a woman's face.
