How To Use Innocence In A Sentence
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I felt, in reading your unreproaching letter to her, as self-reproachful as anybody could with a great deal of innocence (in the way of the world) to fall back upon.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
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If the borsholder could not find such a number to answer for their innocence, the decennary was compelled by fine to make satisfaction to the king, according to the degree of the offence. [
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John
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A 35-year-old Briton languishing in a Bangkok jail under sentence of death for a crime he says he did not commit is planning to protest his innocence by refusing to plead for a royal pardon.
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So weeding out potential jurors with unchangeable views on guilt or innocence has the elaborateness of celebrity trials like that of O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted at the same courthouse in 1995.
Jackson jury Q&A tests media's grip
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He took with him messages of support from Andy's family and friends, who remain convinced of his innocence.
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Like the invitation to run together, he blurted out such things as if he were completely unaware of how they might be interpreted, with a guileless innocence that couldn't help but put me at ease.
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When they are captured, they will often loudly proclaim their innocence.
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I loved the very air of innocence and naivety that this place held.
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He asserted his innocence and his financial probity.
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In spite of her off-screen antics, she remains the darling of Disney remakes, with her on-screen innocence and charm.
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Their songs have a certain elegant charm and a quality of innocence that's genuinely disarming.
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Instead of dissuading him from further crime, the fact of having been labelled a criminal may be sufficient to make him what, if we believe his protestations of innocence, he was not.
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The court heard that he still maintained his innocence over the offences which were years old.
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The accused country has to prove its innocence, the accuser has to prove nothing.
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She appeared on daytime TV in a forlorn attempt to persuade the public of her innocence.
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The draft reflects a similar innocence about how the media operate, while presuming to call shots and issue admonitions and injunctions in an often condescending way.
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Even the biting wit of this film has something of lost innocence about it.
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Not only are offenders presented with indisputable evidence of culpability, but also unconnected suspects rely on the technique to prove their innocence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Much of his work deals with the theme of innocence corrupted by capitalism.
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While he radiated innocence and virginity, Siterra radiated seductiveness, wildness, and deadliness.
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They're the co-authors of ‘Actual Innocence.’
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His session description very clearly demonstrates both incompetence and unethical behavior . . . regardless of Jackson's guilt or innocence which is an entirely different matter, albeit I tend not to buy the whole pure as undriven snow the Jackson sycophants are pushing.
Uri Geller's Report . . .. . . on the Hypnosis Session he did with Michael Jackson . . .. . . bad trance management
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One early morning at an elementary school bus stop, I gaily waved at the visible faces of our future leaders and innovators, children whose dreams and innocence were yet unscathed by disappointment or grim reality.
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He offered to avouch his innocence with his sword.
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Finally, we know that Father Doria very likely will not be saved, because he is sadistic, "avaricious" 88, and completely insensible to Guilo's youth, innocence, gentleness, and beauty.
The Boy Martyr; Or, Manfresti's Page. A Story of 1567
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It is so lovely to view the sweet innocence of the ghouls and hobgoblins who visit our thresholds, calling out ‘trick or treat’, often accompanied by imaginative verse of their own making.
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She laughed that remarkable laughter that sounds so very much like chimes, the laughter of feminine innocence, pure joy, a laugh that begins in the diaphragm, explodes through a grin and electrifies the eyes.
Stop the runaway horses
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Roger Daltrey, frontman of The Who, wore a T-shirt proclaiming Davis's innocence, with the convicted man's name daubed across railway and road bridges.
BBC News - Home
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All of those charges have protested their innocence, claiming that they were using accepted interrogation methods.
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Mr. Collins, who maintained his innocence, spent much of those 15 years in a computerless prison law library.
His Case for Freedom
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There is no paradise on earth equal to the union of love and innocence.
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A few birds cheeped in bird innocence, but that was the only sound as the man sauntered toward that purse like some tough sheriff in a Western, though then again, maybe it was just the leather chaps, well, chapping, that made him walk that way.
The Six Rules of Maybe
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I beg permission to have a few witnesses examined concerning my character; and if their testimony shall not overweigh my supposed guilt, I must be condemned, although I would pledge my salvation on my innocence.
Chapter 8
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The issue is one of innocence and defenselessness on the one hand, and a decision by one who truly does have a choice on the other.
Requiring viewing of pre-abortion ultrasounds: I’m with Crist on this one
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An untarnished innocence that hadn't dimmed any, since the day he was born.
AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE
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So let there be that self-moving thing, a sweet girl mentioned by innocence in an off moment because of her skin, because of the way rain beads up on it.
Fabulous birds
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Will she pull through and prove her innocence?
The Sun
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I love everything about them: their cuteness, their innocence, their clothes.
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Whether or not he testified on the issue of guilt or innocence or as to matters in extenuation or mitigation, the accused may make an unsworn statement to the court in mitigation or extenuation of the offenses of which he stands convicted, but the right to make such an unsworn statement does not permit the filing of the affidavit of the accused.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10214
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The worrying and earnestness is my job — the playing and innocence is Miss Baby’s.
When Bad Things Happen To Good Dolls | Her Bad Mother
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his declaration of innocence
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She was famous for portraying naïvety and innocence on stage, qualities far removed from her real-life personality.
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One way is to emphasize the inherent innocence of all people with the disease.
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Phillips has repeatedly proclaimed his innocence.
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In his innocence he had allowed the salesman in to discuss vacuum cleaners.
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The big accountancy firms and lawyers that advise them also plead innocence, claiming they are just doing their job.
Times, Sunday Times
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We can and should form opinions about guilt or innocence in the same as we form other opinions, by choosing the position that best fits the available evidence.
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It is not for them to be concerned about the niceties of justice or right and wrong or guilt or innocence.
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We grasp the near impossibility of innocence in a country that has itself become a criminal conspiracy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Blanche keeps up the facade of virginity, innocence, and properness.
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I did, though get a reaction when I asked, in all innocence, if she would take dictation.
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With squint-eyed innocence and un-metered awkwardness, Stewart delivers an unexpected hit performance that would later land him additional appearances in commercials and voice-over roles.
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This sense of boyish innocence and hope helps define The Devil's Backbone as something more than just your average trip to the boneyard.
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Cullen often dwells on the innocence and clear-eyed religiousness of his youth - the holy water the family blessed themselves with before leaving home, attending Mass every morning.
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But he asserted his innocence almost immediately after his plea.
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Perhaps it was the shock that kept them hoping or maybe it was a naive innocence.
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Now it is rare to see his name in print unless it is being invoked as shorthand for corrupted innocence or curdled dreams.
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In 1794 the ruffians, Danton and Robespierre, fell in succession, and expiated their crimes (if indeed such crimes be expiable at all) on that guillotine which they had so often deluged with the blood of innocence, even of female innocence and beauty.
Celebration in Baltimore of the Triumph of Liberty in France
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It has definitely helped me to be a better individual, I have developed the strange innocence and carefreeness of a child.
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I took no view, but always felt uncomfortable that his dogged insistence on his innocence should count against him.
Times, Sunday Times
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BRAND: I think you would want to press the procedures that were used, see whether the wiretaps have been legitimately authorized, whether all the material that was wiretapped, including some things that we lawyers call exculpatory -- that is, things that tend to prove your innocence -- are not on the tapes or that should be on the tapes and available to you.
CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2008
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In a day filled with numerous sidebars requested by the Assistant District Attorney Thomas, Smith maintained her innocence and asserted that Laura Jones could not have committed the crime.
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Chris' expression betrayed naught but the purest innocence.
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Oliver becomes someone to whom things happen and his innate goodness and innocence palls when he's surrounded by so many more vibrant and colourful characters.
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She has this apparent innocence which, I suspect, she uses to her advantage.
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One of the things I adore about Jet Li is the way he often plays this terrifically competent martial arts expert who at the same time retains a sense of innocence and humility and a sometimes comedic lack of suavity around attractive women (this movie includes a mother-daughter team of thieves, so you can be sure there is some comedy).
2008 Film Reviews: More Catching Up
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* PROJET: Une salamandre (pour mes origines) sur le haut de la nuque, un dragon imperial sur la cheville (pour la culture asiatique, une de mes passions), un papillon sur la hanche droite (pour l'ambiguité), un code barre derriere l'oreille droite (pur produit de consommation) et des ailes d'ange sur les omoplates (pour l'innocence) 30.
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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Michael had the tainted innocence of an outcast, but I knew he was better than the very people who would reject him.
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One idea has been to impanel two juries - one that would not be death-qualified, to decide upon guilt or innocence, and a second death-qualified one to decide on the penalty following a guilty verdict.
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We will walk free and prove our innocence, right?
Times, Sunday Times
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There is no paradise on earth equal to the union of love and innocence.
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By defending their innocence and resisting fascism, the Rosenbergs literally broke the back of the Cold War.
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Of course, no matter how suggestive his lyrics, Kelly is entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Yet court after court had declared his innocence and removed the stain from his character like mud from his boots.
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More protestations of innocence followed and shortly afterwards, creepiness slunk in.
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The more the evidence points to complete innocence, the battier the MSM becomes: that's Whitewater in a nutshell.
Republicans Demand Obama Say He Wants Fitzgerald To Stay -- Even Though He Already Has
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It is about the loss of childhood innocence and the bruises of adult experience.
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Accompanying the petition is a series of portraits of Icelanders holding up their own protestations of innocence.
Icelanders protest terrorist label
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No, I still didn't look up the word "auguries" but I imagine it means the various and diverse occasions of innocence.
A New Respect for William Blakes' Auguries of Innocence
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The suspect protested his innocence
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We can scoff now at the innocence of the early atomic age when we were all advised that in a nuclear attack it was safe to hide under the kitchen table.
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But we cannot, since even Adam, in innocence, needed one amidst his earthly employments; therefore the sabbath is still needed and is therefore still linked with the other nine commandments, as obligatory in the spirit, though the letter of the law has been superseded by that higher spirit of love which is the essence of law and Gospel alike (Ro 13: 8-10).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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They believe in a culture of blame which moves from the presumption of guilt rather than innocence.
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As the picaro physically travels, he emotionally and intellectually proceeds from innocence to disillusionment; desengaño, of course, is also a sentiment that permeates baroque texts.
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There, He washed you with his own precious blood, clotured you with the spotless robe of innocence, adorned you with the gifts of grace, and adopted you as his own child.
The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus
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She has always maintained her innocence.
Times, Sunday Times
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And like I said, the prospect of despoiling innocence is the greatest lure of all.
NIGHT SISTERS
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This innocence clashing with the ugliness of life, was this good news for art?
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It was a devastating blow - and Marina Voncina says any chance Noel Han had of proving his claim of innocence, is gone.
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The governor has declared his innocence and says he plans to serve out his term.
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People talk about that as contravening the right of presumption of innocence.
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She is 22 but her voice is more blighted bud than rose, an emotional instrument that conveys innocence broken on the wheel of restless craving.
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With a slow deliberation she folded it and held it out to him with a playful innocence that made him want to rush over to her and kiss her.
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Folk and country, romance and ruefulness, innocence and experience are all conjoined in their bewitching vocal harmonies.
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His sister stands behind him, dressed in the genderless garb associated with workers and cadre members, only her braids suggesting her own youth, innocence, and gender.
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There is in liberty as in innocence and virtue a satisfaction one can only feel in their enjoyment and a pleasure which can cease only when lost.
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We stand aghast at the loss of innocence.
Christianity Today
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These include efforts to: present the pronouncements of the President to be inconsistent, and at odds with established ANC policy; cover matters relating to the President's pending court case in a manner that undermines the principle of presumption of innocence; suggest conflict between the President, Deputy President and Treasurer General; make various other claims about Officials being "gagged", former NEC members being targeted for "dodgy deals", and the inaccurate reporting of
ANC Today
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Suddenly he sat down and started licking his paws, a portrait of innocence.
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We've heard it before and we'll probably keep on hearing it for as long as we all buy into this idea that in growing up we lose our innocence and fall out of touch with our true selves.
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I asked her the question in all innocence. I didn't know it was going to upset her.
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And in that look is the end of innocence, of benevolent patronage, an era when strolling architects and plumy journalists can gossip complacently about how they have arranged a good time for the rest of us.
The Festival of Britain, 60 years on
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You have an endearing quality of youth and innocence that attracts people around you today.
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Determined to prove her innocence, she then paid various small children to buy sweets from the same shop where she had purchased the chocolate creams.
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If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur of glory, but from convicton of ntational innocence, iformation, and benevolence.
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This is not self-punishment and has nothing to do with guilt or innocence.
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I play the child, and weep at the recollection — for the grief is still fresh that stunned as well as wounded me — yet never did drops of anguish like these bedew the cheeks of infantine innocence — and why should they mine, that never was stained by a blush of guilt?
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
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Their abstainence, chast and innocence; Set them miles apart.
Light4u Diary Entry
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He managed to convince the jury of his innocence.
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The presumption of innocence and the equality of arms are either part of our gladiatorial adversarial criminal justice system or they are not.
Times, Sunday Times
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Kevin held his look of innocence, while his eyes danced and twinkled, laughing at her.
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He pleaded innocence and has been found guilty.
The Sun
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As he feels the noose tightening, Whitlock finds himself in a race against the clock to uncover the mysteries surrounding the deaths and maintain his innocence.
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dewy-eyed innocence
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His looming cameo proclaims sweet innocence, and through the next two-hours we will endure several sightings of his ghost.
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She also displays a number of interesting artefacts, notably an early ballot box, with discs for voting on the guilt or innocence of an accused.
Times, Sunday Times
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The unfortunate woman stood accused of the murder of the workhouse gravedigger and pleaded her innocence to the last.
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Witnesses have cast doubt on the suspect's innocence.
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But last night they protested their innocence and claimed the false accusations had ruined their lives.
The Sun
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He'll try to convince you of Mitchell's innocence.
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Their songs have a certain elegant charm and a quality of innocence that's genuinely disarming.
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Her music may be deep-rooted in the teen market but her image crosses over into the adult market where she is often shown on adult magazine covers posing seductively while still maintaining an ‘innocence’.
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Desperate attempts have been made to prove the innocence of fun, and the allowableness of wit and humor.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858
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The ancient Egyptians had this down to a fine art long ago; a smooth and hairless body was the standard of beauty, youth and innocence.
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babelike innocence and dependence
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It should be made clear to the jury that the most important evidence was that which bore directly on the guilt or innocence of the accused person.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like souvenirs from an idyllic past they being a narrative of a journey from innocence to experience.
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Answers in the negative are not necessarily an indictment of the police, just as they are not necessarily proof of the accused's innocence.
Times, Sunday Times
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My vote for the most untranslatable word would go to nyakaa, a Bengali word that could mean coy, or teasing, or bashful, or suggests fake niceness or phoney innocence.
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When leading lady Marcia Lane is arrested for the killing, her suiter, a studio writer, starts to investigate the killing in order to prove her innocence.
Movie:The Death Kiss (1932)
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The chauffeur made wild, appealing gestures of his innocence, evidently to no avail, for when he turned around and climbed back into the driver's seat his expression was not a little dejected.
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Innocence and naivety really helped us.
Times, Sunday Times
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A man-child with a high-pitched voice, his brilliant acidic wit shields the petrified innocence of someone incompetent at everything except moving furniture and writing.
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It was the innocence and charm of his work that won him the admiration of the avant-garde.
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It's It'strip search searches them regardlessly regardless of age or innocence, children, grandmotherswhoever, whomever.
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With that artless piety, which innocence only knows, she addressed the Supreme Being, and resigned herself to his care.
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I know they are carrying me with their sweet innocence, their natural optimism.
Times, Sunday Times
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This new evidence will prove their innocence.
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The idea of ‘innocence’ is a central quality in the social construction of childhood.
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Now I look back at my innocence with a wintry smile.
Times, Sunday Times
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Statutory presumptions placing an evidential burden on the accused do not breach the presumption of innocence.
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She has this apparent innocence which, I suspect, she uses to her advantage.
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She has always maintained her innocence.
Times, Sunday Times
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The presumption of innocence - widely overused as a rhetorical lifeline for the arrantly guilty - is indeed deeply rooted in Anglo-American common law.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center, an American non-profit civil rights organization dedicated to combating bigotry, wrote in a recent report that " ... certain Americans, who have been prodded into paranoia by clever activists, opportunistic politicians and guileful media players, seem downright eager to deny Muslims the guarantees of religious freedom and the presumption of innocence.
Parvez Ahmed: Muslims In America At The 10th Anniversary Of 9/11
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My son\'s innocence died Tuesday after he saw a redheaded woman named Dora getting doubly penetrated by two marines when I Google-image-searched the words \ "Dora\" and \ "explorer\" for him.
Esquire.com Article Feed
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These are songs they sing with such wide-eyed innocence that it sounds childishly naughty.
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His innocence, and seraphic ways might have been the reason why his father loved him so.
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She was far from perfection and innocence, yet far from devilishness and wrong.
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Luke's innocence and virtuousness are emphasized in comparison to Hans' rugged masculine physical appearance, his morally ambiguous occupation and mercenary ideologies.
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Her innocence exchang'd for guilty state; Whatever you write, in every golden line Sublimity and elegance combine; Thy nervous phrase impresses every soul, While harmony gives rapture to the whole. '
Life Of Johnson
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There is a canny innocence about it that is either very funny or grimly laddish.
Times, Sunday Times
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It differs from petit jury in that it does not decide questions of guilt or innocence.
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Bitterly, he murmurs how he should have refuted the women and explained his innocence.
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But his unworldly innocence disguises his disregard for the real social consequences of his actions.
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There is no paradise on earth equal to the union of love andd innocence.
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Why am I running away instead of proving my innocence when I didn't commit the crime?
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Elizabeth was sad and desponding; she no longer took delight in her ordinary occupations; all pleasure seemed to her sacrilege toward the dead; eternal woe and tears she then thought was the just tribute she should pay to innocence so blasted and destroyed.
Chapter 9
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We shall fight to establish our innocence.
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The traditional doctrine of the fall presupposed an original state of innocence for the human race.
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A good act or the naivety of innocence?
Times, Sunday Times
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The prisoners passionately proclaimed their innocence in front of the jury.
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Within, was the peace as of innocence, reckless blindless, deluding joy, hope, whose still anchor rested on placid but unconstant water.
The Last Man
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“Innocence always calls mutely for protection,” the book warns, “when we could be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.”
Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
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They hope this new evidence will prove her innocence.
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She had taken advantage of his innocence.
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All his protestations of innocence collapse in the face of the bare honest facts.
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His narrative is one of unmitigated Spanish rapaciousness and violence and Indian innocence and moral purity.
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If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur of glory, but from convicton of ntational innocence, iformation, and benevolence.
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Towards the end of his career he became increasingly convinced that many of the protestations of innocence made at the gallows were genuine.
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I always tell her she has the quality that all of us need to project more, which is purity and innocence.
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And when his human dignity was gone, his innocence sullied, he felt something sharp plunge into his chest.
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It was an experimental time in music but simultaneously has a great innocence to it.
The Sun
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His innocence, his undiminished hope, are ultimately inspirational.
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Her simpleminded innocence, her laughter and kindness, cast a mysterious poetic glow over it.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is a provocative bunch of yobs among their exports, while not listed soccer thugs, still ignite tempers by taunts and tease and then claim innocence when the law steps in.
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DNA is unique to each person and acts as a fingerprint which in terms of crimes can prove someone's guilt or innocence.
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The council then banned the driver from driving school buses but he protested his innocence and insisted the girls had lied.
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Edward was a quiet, honest, simple American who had always protested his innocence.
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Yes, there have been protestations of innocence from our own Foreign Secretary, and an outright denial from the President.
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Thus the imagery of Aquarius dwells upon the cleansing power of water to offer the representation of youth, innocence and purity.
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The pair have protested their innocence throughout.
The Sun
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In American literature and film, this is where innocence is set, in small towns among old-fashioned American types: the avuncular family doctor, the aproned fellow called Pop who runs the diner.
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He explains that as a Catholic, the ideas of purgatory, heaven and hell, enter strongly into Kelly's worldview and because of this he must convince the audience, and himself, of his innocence.
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These new facts, together with the other evidence, prove the prisoner's innocence.
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He maintained his innocence
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The governor has declared his innocence and says he plans to serve out his term.
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If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence?
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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The presumption of innocence is central to British law.
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Thomson's denunciation of the slave trade, and of cruelty to animals, especially the caging of birds and the coursing of hares; his preference of country to town; his rhapsodies on domestic love and the innocence of the Golden Age; his contrast between the misery of the poor and the heartless luxury of the rich; all these features of the poem foretoken the sentimentalism of Sterne and Goldsmith, and the humanitarianism of
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
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a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal
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There is in liberty as in innocence and virtue a satisfaction one can only feel in their enjoyment and a pleasure which can cease only when lost.
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She could have established her own innocence and virtue easily enough.
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In these particular instances it should be up to the courts to decide guilt or innocence.
Times, Sunday Times
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She could have established her own innocence and virtue easily enough.
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Russie, "tom.iii. p. 217: --" Je sauvai la vie ` a une fille de dix ans, dont l'innocence et la candeur formaient un contraste bien frappant avec la rage de tout ce qui mlenvironnait.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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Instead of glorifying suffering and redemptive violence, Jesus lived so that humans would receive back their dignity as creatures of God, so that they would regain their innocence and uninhibitedness in relation to God.
Rev. Candace Chellew-Hodge: Should Christians Be Pacifists?
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Perhaps there had even been a kind of innocence in our duplicity.
THE EXECUTION
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She steadfastly maintained her innocence.
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A guppy is a small life loving creature with an innocence of a child and a thrill for fun and adventure.
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