Example sentences for: culpability

How can you use “culpability” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Although scholarship continues to ascribe some culpability to the British--for instance, the British did contribute to the Irish dependence on potatoes--most historians emphasize the famine was primarily a natural disaster, and conclude that British inaction was hardly part of a deliberate plan.

  • She faults the biographer, Tanenhaus, for sharing his subject's viewpoint and not doubting "the Soviets' more or less total culpability for the long disaster we call the Cold War."

  • Asking U.S. law enforcement officials to concur with an intelligence-based case before their investigation had been concluded "could give rise to charges that the administration had acted before final culpability had been determined."

  • The conservative Daily Telegraph also argued for a tough line, saying that "the atrocity cannot be allowed to go unpunished" and that if the culpability of the Serb police was established, "Milosevic should face indictment as the commander-in-chief of the Yugoslav security forces, with ultimate responsibility for their actions.

  • Tanenhaus, however, though he points to some of Chambers' blind spots and ideological excesses, does not doubt the Soviets' more or less total culpability for the long disaster we call the Cold War.


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