imputable

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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

Immigration had in a great measure ceased; a circumstance imputable to nothing so probably as the change in its religious policy.

From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various

There is no room, however, for the allegation made; and the full amount of her slumber is justly imputable to the gross darkness which so long enveloped the horizon of Russia.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time by Kerr, Robert

This was no other than Thomas Craig, to whose malignity and cunning all her misfortunes were imputable.

From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden