Sentences with phrase «least culpable»

When Minimums are Applied It would be wrong to impose the minimum on the least culpable offender in the least serious circumstances and then provide the same sentence upon someone who is more culpable and for a more serious offence where they would have received that sentence under the old regime.

«We have consistently called for proper negotiations on the key issues of paying more and working longer for less, but the government has refused at every point, leaving us with no choice but to oppose what is nothing more than a political attempt to make the least culpable pay the highest price for the failings of the banks.

I find it particularly meaningless when this team's ability to handle the high press is consistently bad irrespective of who the CB pairing is, and Rugani having played the fewest minutes is the least culpable for the team's deficiency in this regard.

Conservatives, for their part, suggest that the radicals» emphasis on justice rather than freedom conceals Marxist sympathies or at least a culpable naïveté about the evils of communist totalitarianism.

Not exact matches

Christendom Nigeria — at least, the vocal minority — took the cue: culpable indifference.

Persons found culpable in the $ 72 SSNIT OBS software scandal must be, at least, barred from ever serving in public office, Vice President of IMANI Africa, Bright Simons, has said.

When the day comes to string up the fossil fuel assholes I hope the anti-nukes are put up right beside them because they are at least as culpable.

But if the animals are questionable even though bad shipping can be ruled out, it could mean that the supplier is at least partially culpable for the problems.

There are probably at least two duration - related disputes on the slowdown: whether it (assuming «it» is real) was predicted by models (and whether the models should be culpable for not predicting it, our assessment of their quality impacted, etc.); and whether the trend is «significant».

It appears Suzuki is entirely culpable and must be held accountable for social irresponsibility at the very least.

yeah, if only «they» were a monolith, they might have official bodies capable of issuing position statements on behalf of their scientist members, they might have some sort of (I don't know) Royal Society even... they might, in short, be capable of at least a rudimentary form of self - policing, perhaps even enough to render themselves culpable en masse for the abuses they collectively turned a blind eye to, despite having the collective ability to stop them.

-LSB-...] they might, in short, be capable of at least a rudimentary form of self - policing, perhaps even enough to render themselves culpable en masse for the abuses they collectively turned a blind eye to, -LSB-...]

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.