(v. t.) To clear from alleged fault or guilt; to prove to be guiltless; to relieve of blame; to acquit.
Example Sentences:
(1) The introduction in 1968 of the legal concept of Grave Abnormal into the penal code, Development of the Personality Amounting to a Disorder made possible criminal exculpation on the basis of psychosocial maldevelopment.
(2) Some subjects presented a state of psychopathic decompensation of a psychotic level at the moment of the law-breaking act, which accounts for exculpation of this group.
(3) Thus exculpated, he was able, in his own mind, to show off his extravagant talent.
(4) To these assorted exculpations I reply: "Do me a favour, love!"
(5) However, by attempting to limit the admission of liability to the two years between 2004 and 2006 – and by so doing effectively sacrificing two senior executives and former editor Andy Coulson – she appears to be trying to exculpate herself from the scandal."
(6) Even the patient's own repeated request does not exculp the doctor if he directly acts to end the life of the patient before the disease has run its natural course (sections 77, 78 StGB).
(7) It is unethical and irresponsible to not tell the patient experiments are being conducted on him, to charge the patient to perform research on him, or to ask the patient to sign an informed consent aimed at exculpating the doctor rather than protecting the patient.
(8) In most such cases, exculpation is based primarily on the specific content of their delusions and how it comports with the law of the jurisdiction specific content of their delusions and how it comports with the law of the jurisdiction in which the act was committed (the lex loci delicti commissi).
(9) That‘s what grates you isn’t it, that the company’s shopped you?” Pharo replied: “No, what really grates me is that the company has provided a fraction of the evidence in this case and we fitted the bill.” Wright asked him how these missing emails could exculpate him, suggesting they were a “smoke screen” in his trial.
(10) The 1992 decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Foucha v. Louisiana, holding that the Constitution does not permit the continued confinement of a still dangerous, but no longer mentally ill, insanity acquittee, makes it all the more necessary that the insanity defense be abolished and that an offender's mental illness be considered primarily in the context of mitigation, disposition and sentencing, rather than exculpation.
(11) Nor had he provided his understrappers with any lines of defence, any excuses or exculpation for a decision that went against everything he had declared in the past few months.
(12) In order for an impairment of understanding or of self-control to exculpate, the offence must be causally connected with the impairment in question.
(13) What a farrago of self-regarding, self-congratulatory self-exculpation it was!
(14) This formulation permits the defendant possessed of mere surface knowledge or cognition to be exculpated, requiring that he have a deeper affective appreciation of the legal and moral import of the conduct involved if he is to be held criminally responsible.
(15) Yes, of course we need to focus on that but it should in no way exculpate the people who have done this, the criminals and scumbags responsible for terrorist atrocities in our country and around the world.” On BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, Rudd also said the report had never been intended to be shared publicly.
(16) Those who died during hospitalisation, were fully exculpated more often than those who survived at the end of their term; furthermore, they had served their sentences on the average for a longer time than the survivors.
(17) The rationale of exculpation in general, which applies also to the case of mental illness, is that the offence does not indicate a morally bad attitude in the offender.
(18) The former solicitor general added: "The current issue surely is should somebody be investigating something in which their brother has been named, however he may in due course be exculpated?
(19) No other executive said anything remotely designed to exculpate her.
(20) Although delusions are prima facie evidence of psychosis, their mere presence is not a sufficient condition for exculpation on the grounds of insanity.
Vindicate
Definition:
(v. t.) To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.
(v. t.) To maintain or defend with success; to prove to be valid; to assert convincingly; to sustain against assault; as, to vindicate a right, claim, or title.
(v. t.) To support or maintain as true or correct, against denial, censure, or objections; to defend; to justify.
(v. t.) To maintain, as a law or a cause, by overthrowing enemies.
(v. t.) To liberate; to set free; to deliver.
(v. t.) To avenge; to punish; as, a war to vindicate or punish infidelity.
Example Sentences:
(1) In some respects, the impasse is a vindication of the UK electorate’s decision to leave the EU and pursue its own agreements.” He said when the UK government was free to make its own trade deals after leaving the EU, it should target willing partners such as emerging markets.
(2) It’s about state sovereignty.” The BLM’s retreat vindicated his stance, he said, tapping a copy of the US constitution which he keeps in a breast pocket.
(3) In the end, Jill feels her decision was vindicated when her marriage broke up after she discovered he was having an affair.
(4) Jonathan Rees, who was yesterday cleared of murdering his former business partner, Daniel Morgan, is a private investigator of a particularly unpleasant and vindicative kind.
(5) It represents something of a vindication for Spielberg whose last high-minded awards contender, the first-world-war drama War Horse, failed to win anything at the last edition of either the Globes or the Oscars.
(6) Yet victory at Wembley will be hailed as vindication of the decision to change manager.
(7) The damning comments by Judge Alistair McCreath both vindicated Contostavlos – who insisted she was entrapped by the reporter into promising to arrange a cocaine deal – and potentially brought down the curtain on the long and controversial career of Mahmood, better known as the "fake sheikh" after one of his common disguises.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Osborne: Google tax deal vindicates government approach The Guardian understands that Google’s 2014-15 taxes increased by £13.8m under the new formula.
(9) Vilified, prosecuted, but – in the court of public opinion – ultimately vindicated: this is what happens to the heroes of democracy.
(10) George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, said: "This is hugely significant, as it completely vindicates the big decision taken by David Cameron and myself on the economy, and it leaves Gordon Brown's political plans for the G20 and the budget in tatters."
(11) Cimarosa's break with the rules of omertà appears to vindicate the policy of asset seizures, which have cut Messina Denaro's cash flow and forced him to squeeze his backers harder for funds.
(12) Stable healing of the ligament and a good functional result in all cases as well as a very low rate of complications vindicate this management.
(13) Balls also reveals the personal sense of vindication he felt when the chancellor had to admit in the autumn statement how much higher borrowing is going to be in the future.
(14) Every effort was made to discredit those who rejected the case for invasion and occupation – and would before long be comprehensively vindicated.
(15) The press conference comes one day after the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, said Trump was “extremely confident” that the justice department would produce evidence to the House committee that vindicated the president’s accusation.
(16) The comedy, in which she stars as gaffe-prone vice-president Selina Meyer, has been seen as a personal triumph for Louis-Dreyfus, as well as a stateside vindication for the comic method of its creator, Armando Iannucci .
(17) That reality, and its vindication of the miners’ stand , is well understood 30 years later, and reflected in the power of contemporary films such as Pride and the new documentary Still the Enemy Within .
(18) Pékerman had insisted life would go on without Falcao and was thoroughly vindicated.
(19) Schalke's 20-year-old Ivan Rakitic showed why he is so highly rated and vindicated Bilic's decision to aim for more mobility by picking him as an auxiliary attacker at the expense of Mladen Petric.
(20) The results also vindicate the current policy of giving BCG vaccine at birth and probably indicates the need to revaccinate at school leaving age, in accordance with WHO recommendations.