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 first introduction of slaves is not imputable to the present generation, nor even to their ancestors.
From American Eloquence, Volume 2 Studies In American Political History (1896) by Alexander Johnston
When such evils happen, they surely are more imputable to the tyranny of the master than to the cruelty of the servant.
From Political Pamphlets by George Saintsbury
"As the coadjutor of Jefferson," he wrote, "in the establishment of this paper, I include Mr. Madison in the consequences imputable to it."
From James Madison by Sydney Howard Gay
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