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
Let us remember, that the sin of not even every unwarrantable innovation, is exclusively imputable to the innovator himself.
From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor
"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 Gay, Sydney Howard
Is not guilt imputable to an action like this?
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden
