(1) This is just one of the many blameworthy behaviors that young spring breakers have shown recently in Cancún and that are described as acts of xenophobia and discrimination against Mexicans within their own country, which is (or should be) totally unacceptable.” The story took off.
(2) As expected, actors who had a good reputation or were remorseful were seen as more likable, as having better motives, as doing the damage unintentionally, as more sorry and as less blameworthy.
(3) In some instances, impaired driving is not considered to be particularly blameworthy, while in other instances, relatively minor variations in the event sequence have pronounced effects on the assignment of responsibility and punishment.
(4) But the attitude has changed in the last decade, partly due to a cultural shift that can be seen throughout public life in Britain in the wake of any blameworthy disaster: fulsome apology and promise of "lessons learned".
(5) 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.
(6) Examples from the literature on "self-blame" for illness (Tennen, Affleck, & Gershman, 1986) and criminal victimization (Janoff-Bulman, 1979) illustrate insufficient attention to construct validity in the measurement of causality, responsibility, and blameworthiness.
(7) It would also dump blame on the blameworthy rather than spread it like facile rhetoric across the piste.
(8) Speaking to reporters at a commemoration event during which he appeared to fall asleep , Berlusconi said Mussolini's antisemitic race laws were the most blameworthy initiative of someone "who, in many other ways, by contrast, did well".
(9) It’s a complex business, often predicated on who is at the blameworthy end of the transaction.
(10) Moylan added that depraved heart murder “is just as blameworthy, and just as worthy of punishment, when the harmful result ensues, as is the express intent to kill itself”.
Fume
Definition:
(n.) Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco.
(n.) Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control; as, the fumes of passion.
(n.) Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
(n.) The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
(n.) To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor.
(n.) To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
(n.) To pass off in fumes or vapors.
(n.) To be in a rage; to be hot with anger.
(v. t.) To expose to the action of fumes; to treat with vapors, smoke, etc.; as, to bleach straw by fuming it with sulphur; to fill with fumes, vapors, odors, etc., as a room.
(v. t.) To praise inordinately; to flatter.
(v. t.) To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Peak Expiratory Flow and Forced Expiratory Mean Flows in the ranges 0-25%, 25-50% and 50-75% of Forced Vital Capacity were significantly reduced in animals exposed to gasoline exhaust fumes, whereas the group exposed to ethanol exhaust fumes did not differ from the control group.
(2) Poor workplace health and safety, inadequate toilet facilities and dangerous fumes from mosquito fogging that led to one asylum seeker with asthma collapsing were all raised as concerns by Kilburn, although he stressed that he believed G4S management and expatriate G4S staff acted appropriately.
(3) Cadmium fumes and compounds have been found to be instrumental in the development of some cases of chronic bronchitis and emphysema in Sweden.
(4) It is referred to an additional potential endangering by gun fumes and the measures for the protection of labour which are to be derived from this.
(5) The prevalence of occupational dust exposure was 32%, and gas or fume exposure, 19%.
(6) Hydrogen sulfide poisoning from inhalation of roofing asphalt fumes is a rare but devastating injury.
(7) Where efficient fume extraction was in use, levels of air contaminants were lower than with natural ventilation.
(8) Using field observations, modelling techniques and theoretical analysis, parameters describing the performance and collection efficiency of large industrial canopy fume hoods are established for, a) steady state collection of fume and b) collection of plumes with fluctuating flowrates.
(9) In January, Boehner announced that Netanyahu had accepted an invitation to address a joint session of Congress – a move that left the White House fuming, since Obama was not consulted about the visit.
(10) Some abnormalities (increased VC, decreased RV) are typical of diving activities, but the deterioration of effort-dependent expiratory flow values and alveolar-capillary diffusion must be ascribed to specific nuisances (fumes, polluants, toxic substances) associated with fireman's activities.
(11) Subjects with gas or fume exposure had relative odds of symptoms between 1.27 and 1.43 when compared with unexposed subjects.
(12) Black Cats manager Gus Poyet fumed: “If you ask every single manager we want to talk about football, but we always find ourselves talking about a decision.
(13) The highest fume concentration on the horizontal was shown in the fumes collected directly above the arc.
(14) The tea-shop owner’s home is just a couple of hundred metres from a huge, ageing coal-fired power plant in central Turkey , whose red-and-white chimneys spew dirty fumes.
(15) A total of 69 male subjects occupationally exposed to cadmium fumes in a factory producing silver-cadmium-copper alloys for brazing, were subjected to lung function tests, including ventilation (FVC and FEV1), residual volume (RV) and alveolar-capillary diffusion capacity (TLCO and KCO).
(16) But after more than half a million people signed an Avaaz petition calling for Ca ñete’s rejection , environmentalists were left fuming at a perceived democratic deficit in the EU.
(17) Two individuals developed an asthma-like illness after a single exposure to high levels of an irritating aerosol, vapor, fume, or smoke.
(18) Exposures to various gas fumes and vapors accounted for the largest percentage of all hospitalizations (38%), and the second largest percentage of deaths (20.6%).
(19) Data collected on various types of filters (dust and mist; dust, fume, and mist; paint, lacquer, and enamel mist; and high efficiency) challenged with a worst case-type sodium chloride (NaCl) and dioctyl phthalate (DOP) aerosol are presented.
(20) All four gave immediate bronchial reactions to inhalation of the fumes, varying from one breath to 3 min of exposure.