Sentences with phrase «more culpable»

Skilling's 24.3 - year sentence reflects a profound and unwarranted disparity compared to the (1) uniformly below - Guidelines sentences imposed on eight even more culpable high - ranking executives from major corporations; and (2) the 5.5 year sentence imposed on co-defendant Richard Causey.

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.

Looking to the loss by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) of two CDs containing HMRC's entire child benefits database, it is hard to see how this loss would not be even more culpable.

Its not quite as clear cut as this - certainly older children are more culpable then younger children - as there capacity to grasp the consequences of there actions increase, so to do there rights, obligations and responsibilities.

This is an interesting take on the question, which raises the much more likely prospect of a country such as France denying entry to the governor of, say, Texas, who is arguably more culpable in the death of an executed prisoner, having signed the death warrant.

«The governments have been much more culpable...» That's what happens when you forget to take your muck boots off after reading the rw science denialism spread over the unkept barnyard.

«Holding companies responsible for defrauding the public about basic science is a critical piece of enabling our country to make advancements...» The governments have been much more culpable of misleading the public than the corporations.

So next time you find yourselves sputtering mad over the cultural perversity of The Twilight Saga and its ability to rake in billions of sparkle - tainted dollars, an even more culpable target for lowering the standards of cinema can be found merely by looking at kiddie flicks, which undoubtedly kick starts bad taste in movies.

The faults are on all sides of the political divide, even if the anti-immigrant right appears to be more culpable on this occasion.

ShekB, everyone in the state legislature is culpable, but some are more culpable than others.

Yes Wenger is ultimately responsible and yes he has messed up on a number of things but I do find the general failure among supporters to make players more culpable and responsible for crap, inept performances quite worrying.

As for shaving one's head, that is not much different from styling one's hair — not quite in the same league as a surgical procedure, but, yes, wanting to improve one's appearance, as long as it does not become an obsession [I am thinking of the heart - wrenching tragedy of Michael Jackson], is no more culpable than wanting to improve one's mind or any other natural attribute.

Here my own ignorance was the more culpable, since I had been raised in the Church before leaving as a young adult.

Not exact matches

In reality, the U.S. mainstream firms are just as culpable, in fact arguably more so.

Truth, I think if you actually look, the Republicans are just as culpable, if not more so, than the Democrats.

@colin You have a nasty habit of putting words in other peoples mouth, no one said the acts committed were acceptable.Lot, by the very testimony of the story was not culpable in the matter.Replied previous, but cnn put the reply on its own thread two pages ahead.Same basic response, little more information.

Actually, were you a less culpable person, you'd understand that the symbol itself IS the optical displeasure and that it's very existence in places where the more sane people frequent (those being logic - based Atheists) is an open would to everything that that ALL religion has stolen from human kind.

Let them declare this guy Grand High Poobah if they want, won't make them any less culpable for the horrors they have inflicted, the prejudice against women and gays they continue to sprout to this very day and certainly won't make them any more useless to a modern world.

, just published in paperback by ISI: «As more and more populations are added to the immense «global middle class,» each people is commanded to divorce itself from its culpable past» one said to be defined by intolerance and oppression.

Maybe I am more subjectively culpable.

Those found culpable are to face the appropriate penalties and sanctions for their respective roles in causing the public purse to lose more than 1.9 million Ghana cedis to Smarttys in a deal that should not have cost the national kitty more than 1.7 million Ghana cedis.

«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.

Perhaps the character needed to be a little more morally culpable to begin with, or the payoff for his work needed to be more exciting.

Australia and the USA are culpable on two counts, they are producing more greenhouse gasses than any other nations (considering population sizes) and they are doing less about controlling their emissions than any of the other major greenhouse gas emitting nations.

With reproductive rights being such a hot - button topic internationally, it's a wonder why more attention isn't paid to combating pollution on this basis or why those responsible for perpetuating fossil - fuels aren't held culpable for endangering them.Male Infertility Caused by Air Pollution The first study, conducted by urologist Jorge Hallak, coordinator of the Reproductive Toxicology and Andrology, Hospital das Clinicas, examined 748 male workers who inhaled the air of major thoroughfares, according to a report from O Estado.

While 64 percent of respondents blamed firms for having been slow to change, 45 percent said they were culpable for not demanding more change.

When a culpable party participates in those forbidden activities and an injury results, they can more easily be found negligent.

Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide on Friday, escaping the more serious charge of murder for the killing of his girlfriend, and will now battle to avoid going to prison.

What, then, the culpable actor has done by his initial negligent act is, first, to have set in motion a dangerous force which embraces the injured person within the scope of its probable mischief; and next, in conjunction with circumstances which he must be held to contemplate, to have made more difficult if not impossible the means of proving the possible damaging results of his own act or the similar results of the act of another.

Walton v. Alberta Securities Commission et al. 2014 ABCA 273 Securities Regulation Summary: The Alberta Securities Commission, in a decision reported as Re Holtby, 2013 ABASC 45, found G. Walton, B. Holtby, Burdeyney, Randy Kowalchuk and Shepert (the appellants) culpable of insider... [more]