Sentence examples for through omission from inspiring English sources

Google's staff are just as capable of being evil, through omission or commission, as anyone else.

Applying this concept to this Aggadic story: Job's individual guilt may not be legal unless you suppose he was in some way guilty of a crime through omission.

The White House's assurance to her that the United States "is not" and "will not" monitor her communications was tantamount to confirmation through omission that in the past it has.

The worst kinds of pictures were those in which I was directly responsible for harm to myself or someone close to me, not through omission – like a plug left in the wall – but through some senseless action, something stupid that I wouldn't want to do but would somehow wind up doing anyway.

The best, most rigorous journalists make mistakes, through omission, commission and accidental stupidity.

Much of the focus was, naturally, on something akin to one's own survival, conjoined to a desperate, continuous effort to avoid killing one's patients through omission, commission, or just general ineptitude.

The lack of effect on responding during extinction also argues against a role for 5-HT in reporting aversive outcomes that occur through omissions of reward.

He added, "To those whom I have failed in any way, or through any omission of mine have made suffer, I beg forgiveness and pardon".

"To those whom I have failed in any way, or through any omission of mine have made suffer, I beg forgiveness and pardon".

Often associated with government, and sometimes with the news media, it means telling lies through the omission of facts, the idea being that the less people know about what officials are doing, the less likely they are to raise a fuss.

Where the defendant is liable through an omission and not an act, then a legal duty to act – rather than a duty of care – in needed.