imputable
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When a prosecutor offers him a chance to provide extenuating circumstances for his crimes—“Can you affirm that your acts are imputable to external influences of some kind ”—Sylvain is unable to follow the question:
From The New Yorker ● May 1, 2017
"What the state of Texas has done in this case is imputable in law to the US and engages the United States' international responsibility," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2011
The tardiness in this respect, however, cannot be said to be in any way imputable to a want of diligence, zeal or ability in the legation of the United States at Madrid.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 by Various
Randolph protested that the blame was imputable solely to himself.
From Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson
Whether a Dog, that is sick of some disease chiefly imputable to the mass of blood, may be cured by exchanging it for that of a sound Dog?
From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Henry Oldenburg
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