How To Use Culpable In A Sentence

Doug in MV, your guys are as culpable as the Republicans. Transportation Special Session Ends
Some suggested business schools might be partly culpable. Times, Sunday Times
Still, though, the head of the investigation said there was no evidence of deliberate distortion or what Lord Butler called culpable negligence. CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2004
It is especially noteworthy that The New York Times, itself culpable of, or accessory to whatever alleged crimes Mr. Assange may be accused of, has kept its lips discretely, if unheroically sealed. Michael Brenner: Obama's War on WikiLeaks -- and Us
If that doesn't quite amount to an intention to offend, it does amount to culpable negligence in avoiding pointless offence. Times, Sunday Times

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Raw politics is making the arrival of boatpeople a divisive issue once more when it shouldn't be, and the Rudd government is as culpable as the Coalition when it comes to emotive catchcries and racist innuendo. Public Opinion
The attempts to suggest that the government was culpable are dangerous. Times, Sunday Times
The driver arrested after the accident which killed former president Nelson Mandela's great grandchild will face a charge of drunken driving and culpable homicide, Gauteng police said.
He would immortalize Jack and vindicate himself from his culpable grief by becoming what Jack would have been.
Both sides then squandered chances with Motherwell especially culpable in passing up three golden opportunities in quick succession.
Last year alone, $239 million of hard-working Kiwis' money was gouged out of them and just thrown out, and this Government was totally culpable for that.
The prime minister is highly culpable in this affair.
It doesn't matter that their past failings arguably make them more culpable than successors who were holding the wheel when the iceberg was actually hit. Times, Sunday Times
It will not please England, though, that two of his wickets, both front-line batsmen, were culpable.
Other racecourse owners are sometimes equally culpable. Times, Sunday Times
But there are many others who are equally culpable. The Sun
He is being tried for bribery, graft and corruption, betrayal of public trust and culpable violation of the Constitution.
Anything else is culpable negligence. Times, Sunday Times
She was reduced to the last degree of poverty; her friends held themselves aloof, disgusted at what they termed her culpable weakness; she and her children suffered from cold and hunger; and during her subsequent illness she and they must have starved and frozen but for the public charities, that would not let anyone in our midst perish from want of necessary food and fuel. Ishmael In the Depths
Anything else is culpable negligence. Times, Sunday Times
My sense is that quite a lot of them are vincibly ignorant, and thus culpable to one degree or another. CONFIRMED
The media has played along, nothing but culpable in promoting James 'renegade image exampled in the recent breathless national reports about the return of James' pit bull after a two week disappearance to his starring in (and producing) cable TV reality shows, including one called "Jesse James is a Dead Man". It's Official: Poseur Jesse James Is a Big Dumb Idiot
Now many of us will agree that such a person is culpable and guilty.
The coroner all but accused the Government of sending a man to his death by culpable negligence. Times, Sunday Times
As such, objectification is very much a part of our contemporary social condition because on a daily basis we are surrounded by and possibly even culpable such acts because the simple, if tragic, fact is that there are innumerable ways to objectify people. Some homework | Living the Liminal
SHERMAN: Yes, but when you ` ve shifted through their underwear drawer and you got everything she ` s written on the computers, her text messages, everyone in the world is informing on her, you would think you would come up with some statement that -- is inculpable. CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2008
Their slightest charities aggrandized, their failings easily forgiven and forgotten, inculpable colossi towering over their lessers, imposing themselves and shattering lives with a casual indifference born of self-affected ambition. Masked
And you talk about companies being culpable not only for dealing directly with the South African government, but for what you call profiteering from apartheid, for supporting the apartheid system, which could be interpreted as any investment in the economy there ... CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2002
We should record in particular that we have found no evidence of deliberate distortion or of culpable negligence.
The prime minister is highly culpable in this affair.
For example, the magistrates could only exercise their power of committal to prison on a finding of wilful refusal to pay or of culpable neglect.
From a human angle, that might make them less culpable, and so less immoral. Times, Sunday Times
It was a problematic message and the police were swift to say that they didn't want to imply that women were partly culpable if they were attacked. Times, Sunday Times
Equally culpable are drivers who use the outside lane, despite clear inside lanes, and travel far below the speed limit.
In fact, yours truly may be even more culpable for, as he and others have repeatedly said, I found the chief.
According to Bayle, because she thinks the man is her husband, the wife, in ceding him those rights, not only is inculpable of an act that otherwise would be adulterous, but actually performs her duty. This, About The Man I Met Out Here In Nearly Nowhere
Let me put it as circumspectly as I can - the government is culpable, and not just for incompetence.
culpable negligence
This past winter, lumbered with a poor side, he was arguably less culpable. Times, Sunday Times
If this doesn't disgust the so-called Christian Right, they are inculpable of empathy and are hypocrites in their opposition to abortion, a practice I find just as disgusting, as abortion itself. OpEdNews - Diary: Remember Tom DeLaye and Jack Abramoff? I'll Bet Mr. Schaffer, Hopes Not
In public he pleads culpable to his part in that shock result.
To the defensive or culpable Right Winger the emotion-based gesticulations of the flailing Liberal plaintiffs will never sway them and only serve to illustrate their already disdainful characterizations of the limp-wristed Left. Steven Weber: Listen to the Mocking Bird
The defense's case: These alleged acts were not culpable or committed with malicious intent and so they are not impeachable.
The men were found guilty of rioting, arson and culpable homicide amounting to murder.
If that doesn't quite amount to an intention to offend, it does amount to culpable negligence in avoiding pointless offence. Times, Sunday Times
According to Judge Robreno, Mr. Wider's lawyer, Joseph Ziccardi, "snickered" at his client's conduct and failed to stop his client's tirades and was therefore culpable as well. If Spitzer Loses Law License,
There be also books which are partly useful and excellent, partly culpable and pernicious; this work will ask as many more officials, to make expurgations and expunctions, that the commonwealth of learning be not damnified. Areopagitica
In the impeachment complaint, Estrada has been charged with bribery, graft and corruption, betrayal of public trust and culpable violation of the Constitution.
In this light, Mexico is doubly culpable.
They are not only powerless to stop the trade but culpable. The Sun
It is difficult to apportion blame since both sides seem to be equally culpable.
And so the story goes, of all the organizations and institutions that have engaged in culpable activities, one is singled out for punishment by the Federal Government. ACORN files lawsuit over loss of federal funding
The accident was the result of a culpable failure to consider the risks involved.
Some suggested business schools might be partly culpable. Times, Sunday Times
If someone robs a bank and gives me the money that I know is from a robbed bank, am I morally inculpable? The Volokh Conspiracy » This is Pretty Cool…:
Nor was she old enough to appreciate the injustice, to see that it is the creators of the harami who are culpable, not the harami, whose only sin is being born. Excerpt: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
His political position is clear: capitalism is an oppressive system and the constituents of the organizational bloc that wields political power are all equally culpable. Critical Social Research
To me the only place the Feds are culpable is in the authorization of funds to build up the levees. Rebuilding New Orleans? « BuzzMachine
Therefore spodizators, gesinins, memains, and parazons, be not culpable of dilatory protractions in the apposition of every re-roborating species, but rather let them pullulate and superabound on the tables. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
This past winter, lumbered with a poor side, he was arguably less culpable. Times, Sunday Times
The coroner all but accused the Government of sending a man to his death by culpable negligence. Times, Sunday Times
His political position is clear: capitalism is an oppressive system and the constituents of the organizational bloc that wields political power are all equally culpable. Critical Social Research
Here, knowledge and intent or culpable negligence would seem to be required for criminal liability.
Often, they swallow the facile lie that victims of terror are somehow culpable.
But probably the most important contemporary trend is the development of a culture where people are encouraged to see themselves as the victims of harmful external agents or culpable agencies.
I shouldn't say police scandal, because -- we don't believe the government of Germany is culpable for what we call a screw-up. The Fall of Pan Am 103: Inside the Lockerbie Investigation
But the law accepted that business failure was understandable rather than culpable, and offered generous terms to bankrupts to pay off part of their debts before returning as active risk-takers.
If some of those who followed were slightly less culpable it was largely because the game was well and truly up. Times, Sunday Times
It was a problematic message and the police were swift to say that they didn't want to imply that women were partly culpable if they were attacked. Times, Sunday Times
At the same time, the culpable faction is viewed as exempt from organizational control.
If the waste disposal company gets it wrong, it seems it is the veterinary practice that is culpable. Times, Sunday Times
Third chapter is the standard of Recoupment against Employees with Culpable Negligence, this also a premise which the Recoupment against Employees with Culpable Negligence.
If allowing sin to enter creation makes God" culpable "-- well, it can't be said He hasn't suffered for it ... Pharyngula
Note first how he calls it "the Mulcaire case", mentioning only the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire and thereby neatly omitting to mention the name of his own culpable royal editor, Clive Goodman.
Does that mean that Gillette will have to start making blunter razor blades so they will not be culpable if we nick ourselves shaving?
I'm sure, I'm greatly obliged to you, gentlemen, and I hask a thousand pardons for troublin 'you," she concluded in a somewhat severe tone, that left them abashed and culpable; and vanished as mysteriously as she had appeared. Complete March Family Trilogy
From a human angle, that might make them less culpable, and so less immoral. Times, Sunday Times
If we believe that humans are morally culpable for sexual behavior then we must uphold that view.
The cause of the accident is unknown and police are investigating a case of culpable homicide.
Police suspect the vehicle's wheel nuts were not properly fastened and a case of culpable homicide has been opened.
As in heresiology, polemics sets itself the task of determining the intangible point of dogma, the fundamental and necessary principle that the adversary has neglected, ignored or transgressed; and it denounces this negligence as a moral failing; at the root of the error, it finds passion, desire, interest, a whole series of weaknesses and inadmissible attachments that establish it as culpable. Punknews.org
These bleeding heart liberals are just as culpable as those who took part. The Sun
He wrote "I will test the theory that bullets speak louder than words, perhaps the blood of the inculpable will cause a paradigm shift. CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2008
When police arrested those identified to be culpable in the riots, it was only normal that bad eggs should be separated from good ones.
The prime minister is highly culpable in this affair.
These bleeding heart liberals are just as culpable as those who took part. The Sun
If allowing sin to enter creation makes God "culpable" -- well, it can't be said He hasn't suffered for it ... Pharyngula
It's exhausting for many of us to have to keep explaining the fallaciousness of this suggestion -- that Edwards is culpable of "something" because he didn't have the good sense to know a $400 dollar hair cut would land him in the doghouse. New York Times' Leslie Wayne Continues Twisted Jihad Against Edwards
Both parties were held to be to some extent culpable.
He appears no less culpable for this, but all the more tragically human. The Times Literary Supplement
And to remain apathetic in the face of such unnecessary suffering renders us all culpable.
It was common to charge manslaughter and culpable driving together.
If some of those who followed were slightly less culpable it was largely because the game was well and truly up. Times, Sunday Times
But on the other hand, it must be remembered that her standard of exactingness was 'high, and some of the things that in her eyes it was merely culpable to leave undone might be counted by others among virtues of supererogation. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy
The culpable do not break down and confess their sins merely as the result of close questioning.
Sloppy accounting was culpable for the shortfall in revenue.
But there are many others who are equally culpable. The Sun
As a last resort the liable person might be committed to prison if guilty of wilful refusal or culpable neglect, and might also be disqualified from driving. Times, Sunday Times
But they are both culpable for putting political life on the danger list.
The theory that thimerosal is singularly culpable in bringing about autism is only one of three upon which courts will decide," the news media report. Federal court hears case of potential autism-vaccine link
How culpable are they, can they be held responsible and will they pay for their mistake?
It vandalises a gutsy satirical classic, in this case with a mixture of misjudged condescension, smirking spoofery and culpable failure of nerve.
The above argument is not a defence of genuine culpable negligence.
He should know full well the Church does not "condemn those of different religious view" with some damning and wholesale wave of the hand, but instead argues that contraception is objectively evil, which means those using contraceptives may or may not be culpable for their actions, depending on what they know and so forth. Life Issues
The result of checking - out the DNA proved him inculpable.
Yesterday, the Crown accepted a guilty plea to the reduced charge of culpable homicide.
If they don't, are they culpable for the death and suffering that results?
He appears no less culpable for this, but all the more tragically human. The Times Literary Supplement
Remember, there are also specific child abuse laws that many states have that go beyond intentional crimes that can make you criminally responsible for what they call culpable neglect. CNN Transcript May 5, 2002
Other racecourse owners are sometimes equally culpable. Times, Sunday Times
DURBAN, South Africa, March 9 (Reuter) - Police said on Wednesday they were investigating 64 counts of culpable homicide against the driver of a commuter train that crashed near Durban on ANC Daily News Briefing
Now if that is not a form of culpable negligence, then I do not know what is.
She is speaking to us from the security of her living room, safe in her culpable life, dilating on the most hopeless of catastrophes.
It seems to me in the media, particular in this country in the national media, are so culpable.
They are not only powerless to stop the trade but culpable. The Sun
The prime minister is highly culpable in this affair.
The attempts to suggest that the government was culpable are dangerous. Times, Sunday Times
In this, of all ages, we should learn the lesson that to put only a fraction of the potentially culpable in the dock is to invite injustice.
Journalists who had followed the case from start to finish could not agree how culpable she was, how knowingly she lied.
Declarer was only really culpable for the fourth undertrick. Times, Sunday Times
Still, he would have done if it hadn't slipped his mind, and surely the intention made him culpable.
Every organic morsel of her inculpable being meant as much, and had as much complexity as this star system. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
So, too, negligently failing to treat a patient is as culpable as doing so in a negligent manner, and if death results a manslaughter charge could be brought.
Note first how he calls it "the Mulcaire case", mentioning only the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire and thereby neatly omitting to mention the name of his own culpable royal editor, Clive Goodman.
All I have viewed is the lamas hit the inculpable citizens in Tibet. Wikileaks Tries to Spread Tibet Videos - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
Raymon had the art of being often culpable without arousing hatred, often eccentric without being offensive; indeed he sometimes succeeded in arousing the pity of people who had the most reason to complain of him. Indiana
As in national law, in international criminal law a culpable state of mind is normally proved in court by circumstantial evidence.
It is not premised on any culpable act or omission on the part of the employer; an employer who is not personally at fault is made legally answerable for the fault of his employee.
If a person's failure to be fully incorporated is inculpable for some reason, God can and does count that person's positive response to grace as a measure of incorporation into Christ, and therefore as a degree of membership in the Church. Who can be saved: reconceiving the question
During the reign of the late king, the ark had been left in culpable neglect. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
She did not know what this word harami - bastard - meant Nor was she old enough to appreciate the injustice, to see that it is the creators of the harami who are culpable, not the harami, whose only sin is being born. A Thousand Splendid Suns
They fear raising people to a level of knowledge that might actually render them morally culpable for rejecting what is irreformably taught by the Church. Archive 2007-08-01
Their decision to do nothing makes them culpable.
While you list a number of shops that are failing to provide access to wheelchair users, other businesses are equally culpable.
Your involvement in the potential perpetration of fraud will render you culpable. Peter Sumaruck II
Decisions are often based not on general concepts of blameworthy or culpable conduct, but on the precise interpretation of technical terms within the act.
Both parties were held to be to some extent culpable.
Meanwhile the unbelieving victim remains at least somewhat culpable due to his/her unregenerate state.
This is mostly childishness, which is, I suppose, morally culpable, although again I can't see that it should affect our estimation of whatever genuine insights and aesthetic achievements arise from their iconoclasm as artists. The Biographical Fallacy

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