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
Perhaps it may not be; but a careful Admonition is of that Moment, that Paul accounts it imputable to Mothers, if the Children degenerate from Piety.
From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus
Stayner in reporting on the subject, admitted that this was quite likely the case, but insisted that no blame was imputable to him.
From The History of the Post Office in British North America by Sir William Smith
His avowal was as follows:— "He had now to say, however, that the merits of these works, if they had any, and their faults, were entirely imputable to himself."
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 571 (Supplementary Number) by Various
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