(1) But these qualities in Bush were all too apparent in last night's interview, particularly in the way he would dance away from any acknowledgement of culpability by saying that he could "understand why people feel that way", whether it be about what he euphemistically called a "lack of a crisp response" to Hurricaine Katrina, or anger at the bank bailouts.
(2) A key issue addressed is patient culpability in compliance.
(3) Advocates for persons with mental retardation have argued that because their disability reduces culpability in capital offenses, the death penalty is always inappropriate.
(4) A most attacking left-back, the Dutchman has been culpable for the concession of quite a few goals during his distinctly chequered time on Wearside but, equally, scores his fair share.
(5) I think the AFP definitely need to give a more forthcoming explanation and they have to accept some culpability for what occurred.
(6) Culpability for any alleged crimes would almost certainly stop at the doorstep of the small circle of people who surround the Rajapaksa family.
(7) An alcohol provocation test is described wherein a 20% solution of alcohol was injected intravenously in 57 subjects with three major goals: 1) To determine criminal culpability.
(8) Both were culpable: Haye of pushing an emotional man too far, Chisora of resorting again to the sort of physical problem-solving referred to by judge Purdy.
(9) There's one other issue highlighted by this disparate reaction: the question of agency and culpability.
(10) Aberdeen city council, NHS Grampian and Police Scotland said they would seek an independent chair to lead the exercise, a day after a trial concluded that Bailey’s 16-year-old killer was guilty of culpable homicide .
(11) The Egyptian military obviously thinks so – but then, this deflects attention from its own culpable role under Mubarak.
(12) He has previously sparked controversy by questioning the existence of "homophobia", suggesting that some people find same-sex relationships "distasteful if not viscerally repugnant" and arguing that there are "different degrees of culpability" in rape cases.
(13) However, the Barcelona coach, Jordi Roura, said the players had to accept the culpability.
(14) In the case of a child's death in the family bath tub or the backyard swimming pool, the extra society sanctions of culpability and accusation further intensified the likelihood of the normal grief process being transformed into a pathological variant.
(15) This is unfortunate news for him and his family, and it’s a blow to China’s democracy movement, as so many people have placed hope in him, and rightfully so.” 'Your Lifelong Prisoner' – Liu Xiaobo's poem from prison Read more Sophie Richardson, the China director at Human Rights Watch, said: “The Chinese government’s culpability for wrongfully imprisoning Liu Xiaobo is deepened by the fact that they released him only when he became gravely ill.” A foreign ministry spokesman was “not aware of the situation” when asked about Liu’s case at a daily press briefing.
(16) Culpability rests with the irrigation authority and Government health services.
(17) In that regard we are culpable and must reflect on our government’s actions.
(18) Yet Labour ministers are not the only culpable parties.
(19) For the purpose of assessing possible opiate dependence (question of culpability) toxicological tests (gas chromatography; mass-spectrometry) were performed on cuttings of hair of a 30-year-old man who had within a short period committed several punishable offences 8 months previously.
(20) The Interview will become a global must-see and their Soviet-style control-freak instincts will look silly and culpable.
Liability
Definition:
(n.) The state of being liable; as, the liability of an insurer; liability to accidents; liability to the law.
(n.) That which one is under obligation to pay, or for which one is liable.
(n.) the sum of one's pecuniary obligations; -- opposed to assets.
Example Sentences:
(1) Liability of retransplanted syngeneic skin grafts to rejection could be almost entirely abolished by their exposure to 300 rads irradiation before placement on the intermediate host.
(2) Tata Steel, the owner of Britain’s largest steel works in Port Talbot, is in talks with the government about a similar restructuring for the British Steel pension scheme , which has liabilities of £15bn.
(3) These results are discussed in relation to previous reports suggesting a common addiction liability for both morphine and alcohol in inbred strains of animals.
(4) The precise aetiology of AHQS is still unresolved but it is concluded that it probably occurs post-natally and that some pigs have a genetic liability to develop the condition.
(5) But Burr admitted the bill would still allow companies to share directly with the NSA, and could potentially receive liability protections if information is shared “not electronically”.
(6) Two years later, the Guardian could point to reforms that owed much to what Ashley called his "bloody-mindedness" in five areas: non-disclosure of victims' names in rape cases; the rights of battered wives; the ending of fuel disconnections for elderly people; a royal commission on the legal profession; and civil liability for damages such as those due to thalidomide victims.
(7) For a substantial majority of the symptoms, the variance in liability was best explained by only genetic factors and environmental influences specific to the individual, where 33% to 46% of the variance was due to genetic factors.
(8) The authors describe several recent court cases in which judges have ignored or distorted acceptable clinical practices, conceivably creating a new liability standard whereby a tragic outcome is considered the result of failure to apply appropriate judgment.
(9) Whilst a charity may seem to have plenty of cash to meet its general liabilities, if the money is in the form of restricted funds it can only be used with permission of the donor or the Charity Commission .
(10) The Tony Abbott lecturing the American president on taxation fairness is, of course, the one who as Australian prime minister is presiding over policies of taxation amnesty for the richest Australians who have themselves offshored their hidden wealth, capping their taxable liability to merely the last four years.
(11) Recent court decisions since the landmark Wickline v. The State of California case in 1987 have addressed this issue of shared liability between payors and providers.
(12) We could be in a situation now where the potential liabilities are higher, which makes it more unlikely to find private investment.
(13) In summary, there are now available very potent narcotics, with small side effect liability.
(14) Continued escalation of claims frequency, however, and average paid-claim costs mean that other remedies will have to be sought if the professional liability problem is to be solved.
(15) But once legal liability cases began, evidence emerged from internal documents that Wyeth knew of far more cases of pulmonary hypertension than had been declared either to the FDA or to patients.
(16) In summary, the liability to exencephaly in SELH mice appears to be a multifactorial threshold trait, and it therefore resembles human neural tube defects in type of genetic etiology.
(17) This escape from liability occurs despite the fact that almost half of all traffic fatalities are attributable to alcohol.
(18) The infrastructure of New York that was once an "engineering marvel" is now a "liability", he said, urging a long-term rethink.
(19) To assess the physical dependence liability of dynorphin A analogs, mice were given repeated injections of various dynorphin A analogs twice daily for 5 days, and rats were given repeated administration of [N-methyl-Tyr1,N-methyl-Arg7,D-Leu8]dynorphin-A-(1-8) ethylamide (E-2078) twice daily for up to 7 weeks.
(20) The relative merits and liabilities for each wavelength and delivery system are discussed.