(a.) Free from blame; without fault; innocent; guiltless; -- sometimes followed by of.
Example Sentences:
(1) The power behind the shot was impressive but the goalkeeper was not entirely blameless, having thrown both hands towards the ball to no effect.
(2) And religious guru Asaram Bapu suggested that the victim was not blameless, asking provocatively: "Can one hand clap?"
(3) The X-Factoring of everyday life allows a discriminatory system to see itself as blameless.
(4) The word "beard", after all, can mean something used to hide sexuality or infidelity, and when not worn for blameless religious reasons, it can be hard to trust.
(5) Scotland David Marshall 7 Made one straightforward save and blameless for England’s opener, then replaced at half-time as Craig Gordon made his emotional return Steven Whitaker 6 Dispossessed by Welbeck early on, leading to a decent England chance.
(6) So next Sunday, he's going to murder blameless Father James as an enforced act of penance.
(7) It was only when she discovered her phone had been hacked on an industrial scale (she changed her number three times in three months, but it never did any good) that she realised all her nearest and dearest were blameless.
(8) We now know, for instance, that one newspaper employed at least four private investigators — one of them fresh from seven years in jail for blackmail and perverting the course of justice – to systemically hack, track, blag and otherwise pry into the private lives of numerous people in public life — from royalty, through politics to celebrities and blameless people who just happened to be caught up in the news, such as the relatives of the two Soham girls murdered by Ian Huntley.
(9) Yet the IOC instead attacked the World Anti-Doping Agency, which is not blameless but at least commissioned McLaren’s report.
(10) However, once again, Shore's blameless pursuit of the things he believed in worked out accidentally as good career politics.
(11) Some blameless little service – say Burma's hour of sustenance a day – is said to be in danger after 70 glorious years of truth-telling.
(12) All these reservations show how technically blameless future clinical trials have to be.
(13) Or are blameless British towns from Wrexham to Wroxham even now ringed by foreign vigilantes in makeshift trenches with knives between their teeth and murder in their heart?
(14) First, alcoholics are morally blameworthy, their condition the result of their own misconduct; such blameworthiness disqualifies alcoholics in unavoidable competition for organs with others who are equally sick but blameless.
(15) The decision to include childhood photographs in her memoir seems like a plea to remember that Dylan was once blameless, even cute.
(16) Obama says he won't mention future appointments but then goes on to praise and defend Susan Rice, saying that the UN ambassador was blameless regarding Benghazi.
(17) 75% were blameless and 68% of these were attacked outside the region where they lived.
(18) I am not blameless in the furthering of this terrible culture: among photos of what I'm reading and street scenes, my face pops up alarmingly regularly.
(19) If all rules of veterinary art, however, had fully been observed during rectal exploration, the proof of blamelessness for the investigator is very difficult to be obtained, when a perforation or a rupture has resulted.
(20) A film, according to this logic, exists only in the eye or mind of the beholder; Haneke, preserving his own moral superiority, takes no responsibility if someone sees Funny Games as a snuff movie or The Piano Teacher as pornography, and he remains blameless if we view Amour as a chilly experiment that vivisects its elderly actors.
Waiver
Definition:
(n.) The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.
Example Sentences:
(1) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
(2) Germany and France have adopted a joint position, criticising but not rejecting the commission’s quota scheme while setting conditions such as the freezing of visa waiver schemes for the countries of the Balkans, and insisting that Italy fingerprint and register all new arrivals to keep them from travelling north to other EU countries.
(3) Federal waiver programs enable states to bypass the requirements of federal programs such as Medicare and Medicaid to experiment with different ways of financing, organizing, and delivering health care.
(4) There will be a hardship waiver for those individuals who still cannot afford coverage, and 95% of all small businesses, because of their size and narrow profit margin, would be exempt from these requirements.
(5) The proposed waivers would exempt state and local law enforcement officers in good standing who have successfully completed a polygraph with their employers.
(6) However, while the high court hears a test case about the fairness of fees, banks have a waiver against such claims.
(7) The United States Air Force (USAF) waiver file and the Office of Medical Support database were used to identify 100 pilots with onset of DU between 1981 and 1987.
(8) A roadmap for the Middle East after the Iran nuclear deal Read more The EU will in return adopt a regulation for the lifting of sanctions and the US president, Barack Obama, will issue waivers for sanctions relief.
(9) But will it be clear to every airline that someone with a waiver should be let on the plane?
(10) They will have access to higher maintenance grants, new fee waivers and student bursaries.
(11) Crucially, the bill provides no relief or waivers for the $800 filing fee to make applications to the AAT, which is likely to create a substantial barrier to seeking review of government decisions.
(12) Additionally, the law contained a judicial bypass clause stipulating that if the teenager does not want to involve each of her parents, she must obtain a waiver of the notification requirement from a judge, by demonstrating that either she is mature and capable of making an informed decision or, if she is not mature, that having the abortion without notifying her parents is in her best interest.
(13) These results suggest that the use of license-suspension waiver as an incentive to participate in a drinking driver program had a negative impact on traffic safety.
(14) The model waiver program was unique because it eliminated the bias toward hospitalization by waiving parental income and assets when determining eligibility for children cared for at home and by allowing Medicaid to cover needed home care services.
(15) The remaining ten, including Ken Clarke and Geoffrey Howe, were put down as waiverers.
(16) The White House counters that even if Congress was to refuse to lift sanctions, Obama could act unilaterally, issuing presidential waivers that would temporarily lift sanctions.
(17) US sanctions would be suspended by presidential waiver in the months after a final deal.
(18) The individual had a history of elevated lipids and smoking, and was on a waiver from the USAF for Flying Class II duties for hyperlipidemia treated with cholestyramine.
(19) From that moment to this, even as we worked tirelessly to help UMG reach the finish line, we have never waivered in our dedication to help our artists achieve their dreams.
(20) Colon has cleared waivers and can be traded to any team.