How To Use mea culpa In A Sentence
- Mindful of his senate testimony, the Chief Justice wrote a 14-page mea culpa (in legal parlance called a concurring opinion) explaining why his vote to overrule earlier cases did not overrule his testimony before the U.S. S.nate. CounterPunch
- It's not simply the mea culpa he extracts from the US president over Watergate, but the scale of the project (29 hours of conversation, edited down to six), the risk (he sold his shares in London Weekend Television to pay Nixon $600,000 – it was regarded by many as the start of chequebook journalism), and the drama (the real thing is even more compelling than the movie). The Saturday interview: David Frost
- Never mind, Asia can manage minus the mea culpa - as long as the agency listens to the region more and revises its policies in light of experience.
- The company has since undertaken a public mea culpa, but there two hurdles to reform. Times, Sunday Times
- It was a grand and unambiguous public mea culpa. Times, Sunday Times
- Is it always mea culpa? Times, Sunday Times
- And then there rises up in our hearts a veiled form, and from its majestic lips comes 'Thou art the man'; and our whole being echoes assent -- _Mea culpa; mea maxima culpa_ -- 'My fault, my exceeding great fault.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
- But while he got as far as the obligatory buck-stops-here mea culpa, he did not confess to the main charge: overselling the weapons.
- _Men culpa, mea culpa_!" cried poor Father Jordan, as though he were at confession, to the excessive amusement of the young men. The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century
- When his deception was uncovered, the NYT ran a 7,239-word front-page mea culpa, which called the affair "a low point in the 152-year history of the newspaper". The Guardian World News
