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

When such evils happen, they surely are more imputable to the tyranny of the master than to the cruelty of the servant.

From Political Pamphlets by Saintsbury, George

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

The expedition to Portugal in which he commanded has been already related, and its ill-success was certainly imputable to no want of courage or conduct on his part.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Aikin, Lucy