Sentences with phrase «accept culpability»

Ben Affleck is a smug, self - absorbed lawyer who refuses to accept culpability for his moral lapses and deals with pangs of guilt by going on the attack.

«Ultimately, I think with your leaving, you accept culpability for the greatest tragedy since 9/11,» he said.

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The reasons for accepting it do not form the kind of deductive proof we require in logic or pure mathematics, but they resemble the arguments used in a court of law to establish innocence or culpability.

Marc Agniflio, the lawyer for former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, jumped right in after the lunch break Tuesday, hitting hard at prosecution witness Frederick Mei's credibility — and culpability for accepting cash, trips and other bribes from restaurateur Harendra Singh.

Kirn's willingness to examine his own culpability in accepting these falsehoods makes his memoir a powerful examination of deceit and its even creepier cousin, self - deception.

I know nothing about the inspection at the construction sites, but some few inspectors are notoriously lax in accepting shoddy construction methods, too much of a proportion of water inthe concrete for example.But there's plenty of culpability to go around.