Sentence examples for shift culpability from inspiring English sources

City analysts Evolution Securities said the investigation could shift culpability towards Transocean – which operated the Deepwater Horizon rig on BP's behalf – and "in particular the integrity of the blowout preventer which should have acted as the ultimate fail safe", Graeme reports.

Its principal tactic was to shift culpability to UCIL, stating the plant was wholly built and operated by the Indian subsidiary.

However, if we said that a lack of available appointments caused delay within this patient's help-seeking interval, we are shifting culpability from patient to context.

The resulting lawsuits against these "carbon majors" are radical because they shift the culpability from developed countries to corporations.

That story, with its shifting sense of culpability, is the closest Davis comes to describing her struggles with Daniel.

Despite Mr Dimon's admirable private candour, the authors urge executives to devise a plausible narrative about their failure that includes "clearly denying culpability, shifting responsibility for the mishap, reducing the offensiveness of the act, giving the appearance of reasonable behaviour and offering acceptable motives".

As the story changed, culpability shifted back and forth.

Some qualitative studies have shown that some people either with a psychiatric diagnosis or related to someone with a psychiatric diagnosis believe that biogenetic accounts reduce – or might reduce – stigma and blame, through shifting responsibility and/or culpability away from the individual and towards heredity (Meiser et al, 2005; Laegsgaard et al, 2010; Potokar et al, 2011).

The minute Obama began proposing strikes in response to the use of chemical weapons, much of the world's news coverage, not to mention the political blame game abroad, shifted from Assad's culpability to the prospect of U.S. "aggression".

But shift the issue to the culpability of laissez-faire markets, the absolute right to profit from nature and profit-maximizing corporate practices, and their conservative worldview is activated.

Accident investigators lessen these odds even further, prosecutors say, by shifting attention away from the culpability of individuals and toward systemic failures in oversight.