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  • "Culpability" does have a technical meaning; it is our moral responsibility for an act, though that responsibility can be greater or lesser depending upon our awareness of the evil being done and the extent to which we consent to an act.

    About.com Catholicism 2009

  • to go so far as to say they have little to no "Culpability" in several of Cutler's Int's is about as COGENT as Lovie implying people/fans/writers don't understand the "ins and outs" of the game of Football aka his football 101 statement.

    chicagotribune.com - News 2010

  • Culpability for the flooding rests not with Mother Nature -- 20% of New Orleans flooded during the city's most serious previous brush with a major storm, 80% flooded in 2005 -- but with the US Army Corps of Engineers, according to those two reports, and to the decision of a US Federal judge in the only lawsuit stemming from the flooding to go to trial.

    Harry Shearer: What the New Census Data Can, and Can't, Tell Us About New Orleans Harry Shearer 2011

  • Culpability has yet again been separated from consequence, and it strikes us as the vilest virulence.

    Michael Farr: The Core of the Economic Debate Michael Farr 2011

  • In my essay “Judicial Culpability for War and Genocide in the Age of American Empire,” Global Jurist: Vol. 8: Iss. 3 (Frontiers), Article6 (2008), I have identified the stages by which this judicial abandonment of the truth standard in favour of judicially-backed political opportunism-the big lie-is the basis for the unconstitutional war and genocide upon which the empire of the “free world” is based.

    The Conflicted Relationship between Lawyers and “Indians” : Law is Cool 2009

  • Culpability is not the kindest word to use, but it is one that fits.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • Culpability must be reattached to consequence such that doing the crime will once again result in doing the time.

    Michael Farr: Outrageous Arrogance and Greek Fraud Michael Farr 2011

  • Culpability has yet again been separated from consequence, and it strikes us as the vilest virulence.

    Michael Farr: The Core of the Economic Debate Michael Farr 2011

  • Culpability must be reattached to consequence such that doing the crime will once again result in doing the time.

    Michael Farr: Outrageous Arrogance and Greek Fraud Michael Farr 2011

  • Culpability is not the kindest word to use, but it is one that fits.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

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