Sentences with phrase «people blameworthy»

The dreaded appeal would be to those principles of law so deep that they are not contained in the text of the Constitution (for example, that «we do not hold people blameworthy and responsible for acts they were powerless to affect»).

Not exact matches

The choice not to act, I realized after a college class on postmodern thought, is itself an act, and like most people I came to recognize the secular version of the sin of omission and to understand that, sometimes, failing to act is just as blameworthy as acting badly.
No rational person can look at cheating this widespread and decide its existence is about the individuals, however blameworthy their behavior may be.»
This, in itself, hardly seems blameworthy, but Amazon compounded the offense by suggesting cheaper alternative books to people who searched for Hachette titles — it directed users to «Similar items at a lower price.»
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