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
Let us remember, that the sin of not even every unwarrantable innovation, is exclusively imputable to the innovator himself.
From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor
The heavy line AA´ represents, by its height at different points above the base line EE´, the product that is specifically imputable to labor in different employments.
From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by Clark, John Bates
It may be feared that his Sermons were less popular from another cause, imputable more to the congregation than to the pastor.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 2 by Swift, Jonathan
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