Sentences with phrase «assigns culpability»

Taking her cue from the legal concept of «wilful blindness,» which assigns culpability to those who could have and should have known something that they chose not to see, journalist Heffernan asks why individuals and organizations are so often unwilling to recognize the truths in front of them.

Brian's been great lately at building the farm system, but there are areas where his judgment is questionable (although one can never be confident in assigning culpability in a front office where the owners seem to rely on self - effacing loyalty from employees; i.e., fall on your sword if you want to work here, and you didn't hear it from us).

Not exact matches

Being critical the blame for the goal should loosely be assigned to Lucas and Gerrard; another case of midfield culpability.

As a parallel example, many legal jurisdictions, for instance, assign a higher culpability to drug pushers / dealers than to drug addicts, though unfortunately the latter group is in the United States subject to excessive legal penalties for non-violent drug offenses.

For a fair and just legal system relies on the sound judgment of these impartial third parties, as they decide the culpability of defendants and assign appropriate punishments.