Sentences with word «exculpation»

«One would have expected Jonathan to be cautious in seeking to advance very childish and inadmissible exculpation of his subordinates for glaring acts of corruption.

The directors are also entitled to (i) have the Company purchase directors» and officers» liability insurance on their behalf in reasonable amounts, (ii) the benefits of indemnification to the fullest extent permitted by law and by the Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws and any indemnification agreements, and (iii) exculpation as provided by state law and the Articles of Incorporation.

Inevitably the camera effects a kind of cinematic exculpation: Liv Ullmann's delighted smile can cover a multitude of sins.

Nor had he provided his understrappers with any lines of defence, any excuses or exculpation for a decision that went against everything he had declared in the past few months.

Very well, but to take the position (as he does later in an analysis of the issues in the case) that he was not only Baby Doe's Surgeon - General, he was also the Surgeon - General for the parents of Baby Doe as well as the Surgeon - General for all the physicians in Bloomington, Indiana, is a clumsy and ludicrous attempt at self - exculpation.

In the end it does not really matter whether Heidegger's late philosophy was a mad labor of craven self - exculpation, or the fruit of genuine moral awakening, or a bit of both.

Simon Hoggart: What a farrago of self - regarding, self - congratulatory self - exculpation the former defence secretary's speech provided

Is it exculpation?

No liability will, in any event attach to an innocent act of shooting, but the culpable actor, as against innocence, must bear the burden of exculpation.