How To Use Mea culpa In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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.
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The company has since undertaken a public mea culpa, but there two hurdles to reform.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a grand and unambiguous public mea culpa.
Times, Sunday Times
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Is it always mea culpa?
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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.
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_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
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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
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It's mea culpa for the purpose of relicensure," spokesman Tom Pool said.
The Orange County Register - News Headlines : News
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I recently picked fights with both my sisters and it struck me, as I voiced my mea culpas, that my brattiness is a result of caring about them again, after years of focusing on friends and lovers instead.
Phoenix New Times | Complete Issue
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We can find further critiques of the way that the newspaper made its mea culpa in Rodrigo Vianna's blog [pt].
Global Voices in English » Brazil: The Character Assassination of a Presidential Candidate
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Now a personal mea culpa.
Times, Sunday Times
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Or maybe it's his special gift for issuing halfhearted and self-serving mea culpas, an apologia disguised as an apology.
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Nicosia tallies one point on my alleged ‘inaccuracies,’ misdating Dewey Canyon III; mea culpa.
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For this, I can only beat my breast violently and mutter _mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa_.
Dead Giveaway
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As Grant moved through his week of mea culpa, he gradually adopted a position of wry humility.
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Politics and celebrity culture have infected history with the mea culpa fashion.
Times, Sunday Times
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A "mea culpa" by Governor Paterson would be difficult for no other reason than it would cause disdain among other municipalities burdened by shortfalls that will not or cannot be "remedied" for financial or political reasons.
Yonkers Tribune
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And when it turns out to be false, there will be many mea culpas, as after the financial crisis which was predicted to be impossible by so many mainstream economic models, but the one thing that will not be contemplated is the practice of relying on assumptions that are known to be false but are required in order to continue using the same modeling toolkit.
Matthew Yglesias » The Revenue Deadlock
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I plead guilty . Mea culpa.
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Dan Neil/The Wall Street Journal Ferrari FF: Sort of cool, sort of not One of the more endearing acts of journalism I've seen was William Safire's occasional "On Language" mea culpa, a column in which the famed word maven would admit to errors and misjudgments—throwing himself on the pikes of the punctilious, as he might say.
A Showroom of Regrets: What I Got Wrong in 2011
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a saint -- but -- but -- _mea culpa, mea maxima culpa_, I don't want him to show me those special treasures of yours.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
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If this be so, he can only plead, _Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa_.
Probabilities : An aid to Faith
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Mea culpa photoshop wise, or shoulkd that be mea cupula?
Political Betting: Re-Design, Cable for Chancellor?
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In this tryptic, I find the lampoonery of the physical deformation inherent to both the slight-statured, fat-footed Frodo and the EPO-swilling, peglegged pirate in the first 2 images to be apt signifiers of his poorly cobbled performances and subsequent attempts at mea culpa.
The BSNYC Absentee Art Exhibition (Part II)
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One of the weightiest is the unexpected mea culpa that Abby Mann wrote for the defendant Dr. Janning, played by Burt Lancaster, in "Judgment at Nuremberg.
A kiss, as time goes by
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Daily Kos does a fairly hysterical "annotated" version of the mea culpa.
Archive 2009-08-01
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Mea culpa 'thwack', mea culpa 'thwack' (oo that feels good), mea culpa 'thwack'
Army Rumour Service
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He came close to tears delivering his first mea culpa for the 2002 disaster.
Times, Sunday Times
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A bit of shock, a few deflected mea culpas, a wringing of hands, a hasty flutter of robes andwhite vestments as, in church after church, the molesting priest slips behind the chancel, vanishes into thesacristy.
Dominus Vobiscum
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Rather, this rigorous mea culpa of a documentary shows why he was worthy of it.
Times, Sunday Times
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'_Mea culpa, mea culpa_,' he murmured wearily, then as he rose up with pale cheek a gleam of fire lit in his eye, for he would die rather than permit Saint Oswyn's shrine to be pillaged by the heathen.
Border Ghost Stories
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_Mea culpa, mea culpa_; and _can_ you forgive a very much mortified old lady who is really and truly fond of you?
The Younger Set
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He used it in his laughable mea culpa in Florida last month and he used it on Sunday.
Times, Sunday Times
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I plead guilty . M - mea culpa.
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There are many ways that presidents admit responsibility besides publicly issuing the big mea culpa.
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As Grant moved through his week of mea culpa, he gradually adopted a position of wry humility.
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I can't say I share your 'Mea Culpa' view re lack of theory ... there is no great question of theory behind the advocacy of the slogan, nor of lack of theory behind our objections to it; and I still think the switching off from class struggle to race struggle an exaggeration, and a departure from Lenin, quite apart from what you call expediency (as if 'theory' were something above expediency or expediency below theory).
Sidney Percival Bunting
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Sometimes he drew in advance on things he hadn't been paid for; and sometimes a great mea culpa would cross the ocean.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It is then that we realize the "mea culpas" we give ourselves for the little we have advanced, and they are not few, especially in two areas that define the true power of a community: the politics and the corporative.
José Fernando López: Latinos in the Corporate World: Representation or Inclusion?
