imputable
Example Sentences
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When a prosecutor offers him a chance to provide extenuating circumstances for his crimes—“Can you affirm that your acts are imputable to external influences of some kind ”—Sylvain is unable to follow the question:
From The New Yorker ● May 1, 2017
"What the state of Texas has done in this case is imputable in law to the US and engages the United States' international responsibility," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2011
Is not guilt imputable to an action like this?
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
His avowal was as follows:— "He had now to say, however, that the merits of these works, if they had any, and their faults, were entirely imputable to himself."
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 571 (Supplementary Number) by Various
"As the coadjutor of Jefferson," he wrote, "in the establishment of this paper, I include Mr. Madison in the consequences imputable to it."
From James Madison by Sydney Howard Gay
