Sentences with phrase «culpability of»

As a counterpoint to the culpability of mothers is the invisibility of fathers.

The assessment of the culpability of the offender is an important element in the application of the latter principle.

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.

However, I do not know what the law in AZ determines the culpability of the safety driver's when there is an accident.

First of all, the source of the fire has to be taken into account, as well as the culpability of the auto owner in the blaze itself.

But what I can say is that is that if we have reached the point that our justice system is so broken that we have to resort to the incarceration of family litigants, based on the subjective assessment of a single justice who has clearly formed strong opinions about the culpability of the parties, we have a very big problem that should be alarming all access to justice advocates.

Although articulated slightly differently, both standards prohibit punishment that is «grossly disproportionate» to the crime or the individual culpability of the defendant...

An engineer speaking of «stress» in analyzing why a bridge may collapse is not likely to think of its impact in the same way that a lawyer would in submitting that «stress» influences the culpability of his or her client.

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.

The criminal culpability of the appellant is not to be measured as if he was driving in a vacuum.

Sentencing Council member Mr Justice Holroyde said: «The guidelines aim to ensure sentencing that properly reflects both the culpability of the offender and the seriousness of the harm which has been caused.»

However, it has been argued that «[a] n increased focus on corporate criminal liability should not result in the culpability of offending individuals within a corporation being overlooked.»

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.

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.

Now, «when the court finds that the defendant satisfies the criteria for dangerousness, a life sentence [under s 225 of the 2003 Act] should be reserved for those cases where the culpability of the offender is particularly high or the offence itself particularly grave» (per Mr Justice Openshaw at 17).

«Posner goes on to explore the subtleties of motivation, reception and culpability of a range of literary, student and academic plagiarists and near - plagiarists as well as the phenomenon of ghostwriting, and the difficulties of writing textbooks without borrowing ideas.

[59] Second, the type of sanctions which may be appropriate for the offender because of his or her particular Aboriginal heritage or connection «bears not on the degree of culpability of the offender, but on the effectiveness of the sentence itself.»

With the increased maximum individual penalty, these penalties will likely increase, and may do so significantly, depending upon the seriousness of the contravention and the culpability of the individual.

His regulatory experience involves a wide range of matters including anti-money laundering and anti-bribery controls, listings rule breaches, conflicts of interest, suitability of investment advice, treatment of customers, client asset rules, market misconduct, competition law and personal culpability of individuals.

Divers from coastal communities around the world wrapped crime - scene tape around dead coral reefs during a series of underwater dives to highlight the catastrophic damage to this valuable ecosystem and the culpability of the fossil fuel industry for its loss.

Its magazine cover proclaims the culpability of global warming as an obvious fact:

This latest article is just another attempt to evade the culpability of «advisors» like himself for this ongoing policy failure.

Sir Paul is very aware of the culpability of scientists and that will come across in the film.

The «loss of trust» issue, and the culpability of the IPCC «consensus process» have been discussed on this site on earlier threads.

Meanwhile there is a huge kerfuffle in Australia over the question of the culpability of climate change in increased bush fires.

Now they have risen to the challenge of questioning the moral ambiguity and culpability of governments waging the war on terror, whose methods may, according to this writer, have done more to weaken democracy than any terrorist

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.

The leaps of logic in the plot and farfetched ideas on the judicial system stretch the believability to its maximum proportion, and even if the underlying message of the movie is the culpability of big businesses in tainting juries for their own profits, the contortions made to hold together the story make for some rough patches.

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.

When it comes to the culpability of his aides, a majority, 52 %, think de Blasio's staff either did something illegal, 22 %, or something unethical but not illegal, 30 %.

«We shared different views on the culpability of James Murdoch in particular.

Nana Adusei Atwenewa Ampem, wants thorough investigations to be conducted into the incident to prove the culpability of the Principal and the accountant or otherwise.

He added: «Even if the individual sentences for each count are appropriate sentences given the statutory maximum available, some of the sentences should have been made to run consecutively, so that the total sentence passed reflected the culpability of the offender, the harm caused and to deter others.»

The issue remains a vexed one, with the judiciary's sentencing of offenders and government initiatives to crack down on child abuse often clashing with social perceptions of the culpability of these offenders and the appropriate level of punishment.

A document obtained from Customs, shows the heavy culpability of the head of the FDA at the Tema Port, Solomon Agampim, who flouted strict instruction to detain the rotten chicken from Holland Weddam Food Link BV, until it was properly certified.

Simply because those mitigating circumstances can severely lessen the moral culpability of the offender.

Such a view of law would permit for - profit corporations to have the moral culpability of criminal convictions, take moral views on a slew of ethical concerns, and let corporations exercise other constitutional guarantees as persons while inexplicably siphoning off only for - profit corporations from religious protection.

But whereas I had presented this as a kind of apologetic for Christian faith, Shepard saw it as displaying the enormous culpability of Christianity for the profound sickness of our time.

The very phrase «the culpability of God» grates on one's sensitivities — and for a variety of good reasons.

However, the primary focus on causation in the inner realm risks obscuring the gravity of trespasses in the «outer» world, the systematic and institutional nature of oppression, and the culpability of the perpetrating agents.

First, with so much data to consider and so many goods to be balanced, those who stand outside the decision are in no position to pronounce on the individual moral culpability of parents who make these choices.

The investigation into Yahoo is continuing and the SEC has yet to make a decision about the role or culpability of individuals, the SEC said.

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.

Not exact matches

«I'm calling for the SEC's enforcement arm to look into whether there's culpability and manipulation, while the corporate finance department of the SEC should re-examine the reasoning behind allowing exactly these kinds of products... to be in the first place.»

In the early days after the attack, May won the support of French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President Donald Trump when they said they shared Britain's assessment of Russian 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.

Tanaka didn't challenge the findings of the report, but did shirk away from culpability.

(Earlier Chainsaw rid himself of a class - action shareholder suit for $ 15 million, without admitting culpability.)

With Facebook still reeling from accusations that its laxity enabled Russia to conduct large - scale information warfare during the election, polarizing the American populace and perhaps influencing the result, Stamos and his fellow executive were anxious to minimize the appearance of culpability here.

I've always felt some small sense of shame and culpability for what happened to me.