Sentences with phrase «culpability by»

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The incident appears to be the first time a pedestrian has been killed by an autonomous vehicle, and it is sure to ignite debate about the ethics, safety, and legal culpability of the technoogy.

Perhaps you can understand why many find the apologetic form of the Nuremberg Defense no less palatable than when it was offered by the Nazi officers disclaiming any culpability.

The assumption of traditional moralism is that by emphasizing the individual's personal culpability one would make him more responsible and more moral.

My full passage which Mr. Golijov characterizes as anti «Semitic is «Golijov diminishes Jewish culpability in Jesus» death by editing out of Mark's text most passages that present Jewish officialdom in a less than benign light.»

The question of God's historical culpability can be asked only by one whose nurture and education have suggested that God is historically responsible in the first place.

It shouldn't be surprising that apologists will defend biblical chattel slavery given they are equally willing to defend the slaughter of children and infants; completely disregarding any notion of judgment based on an exercise of free will, completely disregarding any notion of empathy for their suffering, and with complete rejection of any personal moral culpability in offering their various incarnations of a Nuremberg defense by placing their self - serving deference to perceived authority over any and all other moral considerations.

As Yves Simon and Heinrich Rommen long ago demonstrated, there is room for disagreement within the tradition of natural law about how one envisions the role played by God as the author of human nature, or about the tortuous problem of culpability when there is deeply rooted perversity of basic inclinations.

It would certainly explain how he can believe that all of our choices are completely determined by their causes, yet consider those causes irrelevant to the determination of legal culpability.

For that reason it is inadequate to deal with the issue of media and violence within a framework that deals with the media in isolation and by attempting to prove media culpability.

Negredo's goal just before half time was caused by a combination of midfield culpability, individual positional errors and an individual technical error from Mignolet.

Politicians and experts suggested the mayor's November reelection was virtually assured by the statements clearing de Blasio of any criminal culpability.

«We make decisions about how to address conduct by individuals who we come across in the course of our investigations, and we take into account a lot of things, including their level of culpability, including the need for deterrence, including personal circumstances, including the type and quality of testimony that they may provide, and rare circumstances — there's one here — we go into a non-prosecution agreement,» he said.

But while Donovan found no criminal culpability, a report released by a state ethics panel found Lopez violated the public trust.

Giannoulias, himself a former loan officer there, has largely sought to avoid culpability for the firm's collapse by arguing he left the bank before its troubled deals were struck.

Boscia is also at the center of a criminal investigation being conducted by the regional court in Lecce into the potential culpability of scientists for either introducing the virus or succumbing to pressure or financial persuasion not to stop it.

What could be a film about an investigation turns more into a dark meditation on culpability and fraternity, anchored by terrific performances from Edgerton, Tom Wilkinson and Jai Courtney.

But by the time the movie really gets going Judge has laid culpability for the crumbling mental capacity of society at the feet of lawmakers, corporations and opportunistic politicians too.

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.

Still, the sleazy smooth operator seems oblivious of his own culpability to the very end, whether he's lamenting an ill - advised liaison with the mob - connected, mattress salesman (Jon Lovitz) that brought down his empire or channeling Al Pacino (from «And Justice for All») by yelling «You're out of order!»

As we follow our intelligent, pleasant, perfectly well - intentioned hero in his increasingly difficult dealings with the press — notably an American journalist played by Elisabeth Moss — and others, the film explores the limits of responsibility, culpability, connectivity, even humanity.

The Commission argued that the report used «a small number of cases to arrive at a generalized conclusion» and secondly, that report was «contradictory» by making «sweeping general assertions about AMISOM culpability» before «exhaustively interrogating the scale and prevalence» and thirdly, that «report lacks coherence in its account of AU's efforts to prevent and respond» to the allegations (AU, 2014, September, 8, pp.1 - 2).

The previous starting threshold recommended for all corporate manslaughter convictions was # 500,000, but under the new guidelines, a category A (high culpability) offence committed by a large organisation would start at # 7.5 million with a category range of between # 4.8 — # 20 million.

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Duncan and Pike, by contrast, were out to worm their worrisome notions into teens» skulls, forcing them to ponder their own propensity for misjudgment and culpability.

Music of the Ghosts by survivor Vaddey Ratner only touches on American culpability, but the grueling, heart - wrenching novel indicts any treatment of Cambodia as mere footnote.

By aligning the death of humanity with the birth of Western industry — running closer to German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk's notion of the «Eurocene», which laminates the Industrial Revolution onto the Anthropocene — Starling prompts us to contemplate Western culpability for the end of days.

Homage to Ana Mendieta (1991 - 93), joins a group of works by different New York women artists, all inspired by the artist's death and the possible culpability of her husband, Carl Andre, who was acquitted of murdering Mendieta in 1988.

These numbers are vitally important, because they provide a direct evidence - based link between culpability — those responsible for the emissions driving climate change — and victimhood, those who are suffering the consequences, including losing their lives -LSB-...] The legal implications are analogous to those faced by the tobacco industry once evidence solidified about the links between smoking and cancer.

Foreign Companies Deny Culpability At a time when many Chinese see the developed world's pressure on China as hypocritical — rich countries are liable for most of the world's greenhouse gases (and to some extent, China's, too), goes the argument — pollution violations by multinationals only add insult to injury.

What we are concerned with is the possibility that a culpable defendant may be unjustly punished; evidence of culpability warranting some punishment is not a substitute for evidence providing at least a rational basis for the particular deprivation of property imposed by the State to deter future wrongdoing.

Also, whether your own statements on Facebook were true, false or neither (e.g. statements of opinion) is irrelevant to the culpability or liability of the people providing the tip to your employer, so long as their description of your posts made to the employer were substantially accurate or to the extent that they were inaccurate were accompanied by a means by which the employer could determine what you actually said without relying on their second hand account.

Ferguson suffers from vertigo and acrophobia (fear of heights), guilt about his culpability for the death of a police officer, and a romantic obsession that is artfully manipulated by the villain and forces of villainy.

In an article in the current New York Review of Books, «The Torture Memos: The Case Against the Lawyers,» Georgetown law professor David Cole examines the role and culpability of the lawyers of the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, who, under the Bush administration, wrote memoranda approving of and authorizing torture by the CIA.

The Court notes that lack of financial incentive may indeed reduce an offender's moral culpability — a factor relevant to the flexible use of discretion enjoyed by sentencing judges.

In line with the guidelines for sentencing environmental offences which came into force in July, the proposed guidelines include tariffs of fine ranges for companies with different levels of annual turnover, modified by the seriousness of the offence and the level of organisational culpability.

Because the individualized assessment of the appropriateness of the death penalty is a moral inquiry into the culpability of the defendant, and not an emotional response to the mitigating evidence, I agree with the Court that an instruction informing the jury that they «must not be swayed by mere sentiment, conjecture, sympathy, passion, prejudice, public opinion or public feeling» does not by itself violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.

I was hit by a big rig while riding my motorcycle to work, the police investigation found the other driver to be 100 % at fault yet the trucks insurance company did not see it that way and was refusing to take full culpability.

Where an offender who has attained the age of 18 is convicted of an offence committed while under the age of 18, his culpability is to be judged by reference to his age at the time of the offence.

Ng Ariss Fong has established precedent - setting cases concerning the necessity of mental culpability for findings of professional misconduct in BC, the right of professionals to maintain anonymity during appeal processes, errors in reasoning by tribunals, and public interest factors bearing on name publication decisions.

If the purpose of a conduct rule is to change behaviour, and compliance with the rule is encouraged by the prospect of sanctions to be applied to the individual, then there is no point to a rule that can be breached by an individual without fault or culpability on his part.

I want to write about a couple of other aspects of the story: the culpability of 270,000 Facebook users in disclosing the data of 50 million of their peers, and what this situation tells us about evergreen proposals to «open up the social graph» by making users» social media content portable.

By the time Nikolas Cruz goes on trial for 17 counts of murder, and 17 counts of attempted murder, only his defense lawyers will still be arguing about a disordered mind and diminished culpability.

Someone should tell Zuckerberg never to ruin an apology by following it up with factoids trying to diminish one's culpability.

Showing culpability is a sign of maturity and professionalism.This is also the time to consider specifying that the the bad decision was entirely a result of error, to combat any presumptions by the hurt individual that you did anything intentionally.

ABSTRACT: Judgments of criminal culpability often are influenced by factors unrelated to case content, such as the emotionality of the victim and the personality of the judge.

Judgments of criminal culpability often are influenced by factors unrelated to case content, such as the emotionality of the victim and the personality of the judge.

Clinical psychology was a very male - dominated field in the early 1980s, when she was starting her career, and that was all too clear when a colleague shared his idea for a study that would explore male undergraduates» attitudes toward rape — by having models pose in varying sizes of padded bras and be rated for their desirability and culpability if raped.