That's not to say that journalists are blameless — we're not.
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And no one by the same token is completely blameless.
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The EU 153 are by no means blameless in this.
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"We try to have a blameless postmortem," said one engineer.
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" The judge added: "He has lived an otherwise blameless life.
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Seeking immunity is not typically the strategy of the blameless.
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The costs to blameless employees, they argue, are too high.
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Donald Trump is neither a felon nor is he blameless.
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Clinton is portrayed as morally, as well as legally, blameless.
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The Trump administration might be frustrated but is hardly blameless.
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Let he who is blameless cast the first stone. Anyway.
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But Pompeo is not blameless, and he should be held accountable.
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I'm not saying that he's blameless, but we'll see what happens.
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I'm not saying that he's blameless, but we'll see what happens.
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Television was the biggest offender, but print media was hardly blameless.
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Like the F.B.I., another regular Trump target, Amazon is hardly blameless.
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Bin Salman is likely to emerge entirely blameless, the sources insist.
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But Rubio and his party weren't exactly blameless victims of history.
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The problem with this narrative is not that antifa is blameless.
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Blameless, a Bay Area startup, wants to put it reach of everyone.
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Some miscommunication had occurred and he was surely not blameless in it.
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" At sentencing, Judge Ellis argued Manafort had led an "otherwise blameless life.
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Jokowi and Messrs Kalla and Darmawan are widely believed to be blameless.
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Iran, of course, is not blameless for the collapse of the deal.
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Nobody is completely blameless from a moral or ethical point of view.
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"Those who escaped here and left a debt," he said, are blameless.
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He is hardly blameless for the failures of the Clarence Thomas hearings.
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The coronavirus crisis has punished the blameless across the world this year.
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Nazis, after all, are menacing only because they have blameless, helpless victims.
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His grandfather might have lived a blameless life and become a millionaire.
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But, from a legal standpoint, he argued, the Trump Organization was blameless.
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Don't get me wrong -- they are not blameless and took unfortunate risks.
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"Your clients are not blameless in this affair," Chief Justice Roberts said.
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The simple golden puppers, of course, remain blameless and perfect in all this.
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Those mistakes might not warrant criminal action, but they were not blameless either.
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But Goldwater held himself largely blameless for the outcome of the 1964 election.
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Trump's brand of leadership is to present himself as infallible and ever-blameless.
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To be sure, he is hardly blameless for the failures of the hearings.
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He believes politicians "are using us like flags," casting immigrants as blameless victims.
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And so even the seemingly blameless — Yara Shahidi, Rowan Blanchard, Chris Evans, etc.
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He built custom systems for Box and Mulesoft before launching Blameless two years ago.
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The sex is clearly a mistake in "Cat Person", but neither character is blameless.
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There are above-board ways to argue that Obama isn't blameless in Trump's rise.
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But Ellis argued that the former campaign manager had lived an otherwise "blameless" life.
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So you could almost hold the president blameless when he proceeds with reckless abandon.
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"He specifically said the Blameless post-mortems are something he sees value in," Wong said.
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We can all fail one another, even if we think we're nice and hence blameless.
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But soon it may be hard for the tech giants to say that they're blameless.
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Can we really be willing to doom so many blameless children to an uprooted life?
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May, a principled woman, is personally blameless and embarrassed by the atmosphere of sexual scandal.
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Neither party is blameless, but to me, the Democrats deserve the bulk of the blame.
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The blameless incandescence of the 7-year-olds has given way to cringing self-consciousness.
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The judges did not find Mr. Silver to be a blameless man who'd been wronged.
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But it's not entirely clear that THC products being sold by legal businesses are blameless.
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"Blameless lives are being taken away," wrote Akhmatova in "Requiem", one of her best-known poems.
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As we all know, frogs are perfect, blameless creatures exempt from the stain of original sin.
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That's a horrifying thought, because the memory wipes leave the perpetrators of terrible acts almost blameless.
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The MQM, in turn, accuses the Rangers of kidnapping and killing dozens of blameless political activists.
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Ellis argued that the former campaign manager had lived an otherwise "blameless" life before his crimes.
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" Thirty-one percent of respondents also felt that "police viewed whites as blameless and above suspicion.
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Screenshot: Blameless Screenshot: Blameless As companies move to containers and continuous delivery models, it brings a level of complexity to managing the developers, who are working to maintain the delivery schedule, and operations, who must make sure the latest builds get out with a minimum of bugs.
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Rizqi says SRE changes the way you work and interact and Blameless gives structure to that change.
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"His fatalism allowed him to hold himself blameless; his determinism convinced him he'd be a winner again,"
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England's federation is not under investigation by UEFA, but its fans are not blameless, the police said.
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To the Editor: Political historians have not been entirely blameless in the decline of their subfield's status.
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The difference is that Job was blameless while Facebook has brought many of these disasters upon itself.
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Mr. Volker, for his part, views himself as blameless, according to people who have spoken with him.
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Only Simpson -- not "Charlie," not the blameless Jason, not anyone else -- had the motive to kill Nicole.
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They burned blameless children; As for Hadil, they sniped her in public, Killed her in broad daylight.
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The color pink symbolized the virtuous and blameless aspects of breast cancer and the femininity the disease threatened.
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No side in the conflict is blameless, and the stalemate today indicates that no military solution is possible.
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But with so many blameless people being punished, and severely, worrying about proportionality for this guy seems dumb.
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The Knicks' record isn't Fizdale's fault, as he's been handed a difficult task, but he isn't blameless either.
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Even "independent counsels" have hardly been blameless; witness the lingering bitterness over Kenneth Starr's investigations of Bill Clinton.
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In any event, she said, she was not blameless in the cruelty that her cousin's family had experienced.
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In Xinjiang the state has detained hundreds of thousands of blameless Muslim Uighurs in Mao-style re-education camps.
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As for the armchair grammarians: it is time to give attacks on the (mostly blameless) passive voice a rest.
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The world is short enough of occasions for joy that to disparage such a blameless one may seem harsh.
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In all versions of the story, including this one, Lucretia's father and husband believe her to be entirely blameless.
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"Michael Rizzi did not invent the world of escorts and prostitution, but he is not blameless," Mr. Solano wrote.
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While neither side is blameless here, the record over the last half-century or more is far from even.
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Was Tenet a Bush administration official, and thus blameless under Fleischer's account, or an intelligence community figure, and thus blameworthy?
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Experts are not entirely blameless, as too often they assert their conclusions with greater confidence than their underlying analysis merits.
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Perhaps because that view enables us to think of ourselves as blameless, as physical objects obeying the laws of nature.
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This wouldn't apply to their blameless staff, whom Democrats and Republicans are going to need for passage of any budget.
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MMB said it was evaluating the order and its options, but that it was confident it would be found blameless.
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The news organizations that employed the best workaday reporters on the Mueller beat are not entirely blameless in this regard.
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But Mr. McMillian, 47, has also subjected seemingly blameless appliances and other pieces of furniture to some pretty serious violence.
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Not only does this suggest that he is blameless, it overlooks the fact that your own life is being ruined.
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I said earlier that Trenton and Mobely were blameless, which isn't totally true — they were instrumental in the original hack.
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But that does not mean the idealistic fight against redlining is blameless in the financial shocks of 2008 and thereafter.
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Picture the ambient-music YouTube channel's aesthetic applied to everything else: anodyne, blameless, meaningless, boring, designed only to occupy time.
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I mean, we're setting records," Trump said June 21625, adding, "I'm not saying that he's blameless, but we'll see what happens.
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Outside, he's being attacked very viciously by the press, and I'm not saying that he's blameless, but we'll see what happens.
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Ms. Sandberg is hardly blameless, but notice that she is the one facing the real firing line and not Mr. Zuckerberg.
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He is a graduate of a university and law school here, Georgetown for both, and he's lived an otherwise blameless life.
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That honour belongs to Huang Junjiu, a researcher at Sun Yat-sen University, in Guangzhou, whose research was blameless and above-board.
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When forced, they might put out a blog post — claiming their tools are impartial, their platforms neutral, their role mere 'blameless intermediary'.
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By the time Episode 1 of 'Blameless' ended, she still had one pancake, two strips of bacon and some home fries left.
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The judge who sentenced Paul Manafort to just four years in prison said Trump's former campaign chairman lived an otherwise "blameless" life.
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The judge called the Mueller team's proposed sentence "excessive," arguing that Manafort had "lived an otherwise blameless life" outside of his crimes.
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While neither Kendall nor Rob are perfectly blameless here, this is a very common scenario and we can all learn from their encounter.
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Those who peddle dark conspiracy theories driven by racial paranoia would seem to not be blameless by simple virtue of doing, well, that.
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We are not in denial about polls, and do not hold Hillary Clinton blameless for the difficulties she's faced on the campaign trail.
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Presuming she is indeed pregnant, Sansa, as a chaste, blameless medieval noblewoman, would have had a choice, at least early in her pregnancy.
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This should not be hard to do when the stranger is young, blameless and working hard to make this country a better place.
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" That didn't seem to matter much to Judge Ellis, who indicated in court on Thursday that Mr. Manafort led "an otherwise blameless life.
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Mr. Trump's conduct did not meet the rigorous legal standard of participating in a criminal conspiracy, but it was far from being blameless.
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Mr. Ross also said that America's trade deficit with Canada was "blameless" because it was the result of energy needs, rather than misdeeds.
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And then, there is something about Ms. Russo, some combination of compassion and contrariness, that made her love those blameless walls even more.
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The main objection to having Vladimir Putin's man in the job was that Russia often tries to use Interpol to arrest blameless critics abroad.
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While Democratic leaders are not blameless for government inaction, Republicans are largely responsible for the current belittling of science and disregard for the environment.
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And just like the neo-Nazis—who spent Sunday spreading Alex Jones's message that Charlottesville was a George Soros conspiracy—Trump is always blameless.
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" Judge Ellis explained his decision on Thursday to the packed courthouse in Alexandria by saying he believed Manafort had "lived an otherwise blameless life.
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Now, less than a mile away and five months later, the police had another mystery and another blameless bystander lying crumpled on the ground.
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" On Manafort's record of an "otherwise blameless life": "The defendant is a Category I in criminal history; that is, he has no criminal history.
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"He's lived an otherwise blameless life," Judge Ellis said of a man who acknowledged orchestrating a sophisticated financial fraud scheme that lasted a decade.
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Outside, he&aposs being attacked very viciously by the press, and I&aposm not saying that he&aposs blameless, but we&aposll see what happens.
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There is a hierarchy of victims in the media and in society, where we are more willing to label a young white girl as blameless.
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Meanwhile, President Donald Trump shrugs: "I'm not saying that he's blameless, but we'll see what happens," he told reporters at the White House last week.
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The idea behind Blameless is that customers create incident reports, without assigning blame, so they learn from mistakes and avoid making them in the future.
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But even as the situation with the Lodges grows more and more dire, their neighbors continue to point the finger at the blameless black family.
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There is no reason an organization that exists to provide governance and oversight should get to be blameless because of lack of governance and oversight.
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I'm not going to call one strain a problem or say it has bad behavior—both strains of mouse are blameless—there's some biological difference.
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It could have held platforms blameless just as phone companies are unlikely to be punished for a copyrighted song played during a large conference call.
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Egalitarians should agree about clear cases of blameless misfortune: the quadriplegic child, the cognitively impaired adult, the teen-ager born into poverty with junkie parents.
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If the rape took place outside of city walls, however, the woman would be blameless, since no one would have been around to help her.
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"There is some legwork involved," the lawyer, Jason M. Hiveley said, but noted that it is possible for blameless people to get their $25 back.
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Judge Ellis said that Mr. Manafort "has lived an otherwise blameless life," and he cited other tax cases that had resulted in minimal prison time.
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But as both inquiries concluded, neither the prime minister's office nor the English intelligence apparatus were blameless — either in the war, or in Kelly's death.
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And Bong's enduring political message seems especially concerned with how the poor and the rich feed off one another, and how nobody is ultimately blameless.
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"Sheriff Israel and [the Broward Sheriff's Office] are not blameless for the tragedy at Stoneman Douglas," the report read, according to local TV station WSVN.
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This is a fact that Democrats believe makes them blameless in the Senate, but anyone who buys this line is ignorant of the Senate's rules.
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On the other hand, Michele's challenge wins plus a blameless voting record might be enough for her to win a million bucks from a bitter jury.
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Come the next morning, the sun has broken through the clouds and a suddenly blameless Churchill can only flash the queen a nice, shit-eating grin.
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The ambiguity provides cover for the states while leaving the national party both blameless and fully responsible for the continuing gulf between blacks and the party.
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Now we're not here to say that we are blameless or that excesses of the past have not done discredit to our profession, but 94 percent!?
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Rather, it exists as a blameless reality of an unsolvable problem of the digital age — presenting unknowing consumers as clear-cut victims of Big Bad Tech.
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The article could leave readers with the impression that the accused are blameless, as responsibility to prevent such behaviors still apparently rests on the victims' shoulders.
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Dreamers are a blameless population and constitute productive members of society, but their ability to stay in this country and contribute now has an end date.
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Don't believe them; most reports holding sugar blameless are from sources tied directly or indirectly to financial support from the industries that depend on caloric sweeteners.
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Don't believe them; most reports holding sugar blameless are from sources tied directly or indirectly to financial support from the industries that depend on caloric sweeteners.
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"I think police unions are always going to default to the position that the officers are blameless in instances where they use deadly force," Nolan said.
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What if Naz is angry and troubled and has a stone of hate secreted away in his heart, but is also totally blameless for Andrea's death?
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There are signs that the Silicon Valley giants have had about enough of the shadiness of their lesser peers (though neither is entirely blameless or immune themselves).
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But if Miami fails to make noise in the playoffs, Johnson is basically blameless; there was no sacred chemistry to be fouled up in the first place.
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A lawyer for the group said China was "cutting out the hearts and other organs from living, blameless, harmless, peaceable people," describing the situation as an atrocity.
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"Un-American" appeared to trump "immoral," an admittedly blameless choice of words, though it had the unfortunate effect of echoing the nationalist chauvinism of the president himself.
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I'm not saying that he's blameless, but we'll see what happens," Trump said then, and didn't answer a reporter who asked if Trump was "tired' of Pruitt.
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This isn't to say Brazil or Rio's power structure are blameless—far from it—or that there's nothing here for other prospective mega-event hosts to learn.
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"Even now, faced with the reality of a toxic environment Dartmouth fostered for multiple generations of female students, Dartmouth considers itself blameless," Marcuse said in a statement.
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A kakistocracy, emboldened with blameless impunity for its falsehoods, eclipses even the smallest shreds of hope, and it does it even better, more seamlessly, when it's ugly.
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To be clear, we do not suggest that people who commit crimes are blameless, or that the predominant narrative of the genocide in Rwanda is without fault.
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But it saddened me also because it is obvious that you too are suffering, and it pains me to think of that, of you, who are blameless.
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Brutality exists in America, but it's in the Planned Parenthood videos where blameless babies are dismembered, their tiny limbs and organs hawked by smirking, self-righteous abortionists.
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In a letter sent to Matsumoto last week, Shkreli wrote, "I was a fool," and called himself "far from blameless" as he asked the judge for leniency.
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A truly humane system wouldn't only accommodate the blameless but would also make room for error — mistakes that, until humans are entirely replaced by robots, are inevitable.
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The bottom line: This entire situation has been a disaster for the White House and for Kelly personally, but he's sticking with his story and insisting he's blameless.
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It has spent millions of dollars commissioning research on its weapons, much of it backing the company's contention that its stun guns are blameless in deaths or injuries.
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A blameless man had been killed by the police, but the officer was not one with a history of violence or who had obviously acted out of malice.
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Of course, it wasn't possible to say whether all these stories were entirely true—or at least whether the men were blameless—but most sounded fairly harrowing nonetheless.
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"Let us not forget that while I am being used as a convenient scapegoat, those who are truly responsible for the crime remain free and blameless," he said.
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And then went on to say as to the conduct, he said he wasn&apost blameless and then the famous, "we&aposll see what happens", which is sometimes ominous.
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Blameless, a developer of software for site reliability engineers, announced a $20 million round last week from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel and strategic investors, one of which was Decibel.
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Trump would deserve plenty of criticism for wielding his executive power like a kid with a loaded handgun, but lawmakers past and present wouldn't be blameless in the matter.
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Because although the show is centered on Carrie, she is not always portrayed as the blameless, virtuous sun of the SATC universe that all other characters mindlessly orbit around.
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"CNN and many other outlets are clearly not blameless in this hype machine and the Democratic Party was plenty happy to engage in this speculation as well," she continued.
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But for six and a half seasons, Anthony was in the middle of it all, far from blameless, a central figure in the scattered highs and the many lows.
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It is but one of Mr. Lucas's sad, dead-on insights, in a play that's full of them, that no one is really blameless, and yet everyone is Job.
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He also speaks up for Kevin Hart who, in his telling, lived a blameless life when his dream of hosting the Oscars was dashed because of a few tweets.
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Elders are in a position of respect, almost blameless for their words and actions against those beneath them, just as teachers and parents are above their students and children.
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She and Katz both mentioned Christie's commissioning of the so-called "Mastro Report," a taxpayer-funded Bridgegate probe led by former Giuliani aide Randy Mastro, which found the governor blameless.
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It is a useful interpretive approach, from the viewpoint of mental hygiene—even if he sometimes takes aim at largely blameless thinkers like Hume, Kant, Mill, Marx, Darwin, and Russell.
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Either they are criminals (the worst of the worst, rapists, murders, pedophiles) or they are blameless hard-working heroes (say, doctors or professional basketball players from Australia in the N.B.A.).
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She is either a beautiful symbol of a hoped-for pan-racial harmony or a treacherous, ill-mannered black woman who somehow tricked a blameless white man into marrying her.
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Intel believes that AVs operating with a Responsibility Sensitive Safety model will be essentially blameless, which is probably not the first thing you want to tell someone after a fender bender.
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The public emphasis of the members of Congress in advocating for the law has been on helping blameless people in need of drug treatment, that is, a kind of constituent service.
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Can you ever imagine Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, or any other previous president threatening to halt emergency funding to blameless disaster victims as they struggle to recover?
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Yet a large number of Africans outside Zimbabwe have been hoodwinked into believing Mr Mugabe's lie that sanctions were responsible for hamstringing the entire economy and harming millions of blameless Zimbabweans.
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All of them met the same criteria: they were impoverished, they insisted that they were blameless, they were serving life sentences for serious crimes, and they had exhausted their legal options.
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Nor is Section 230 license for an internet-user free-for-all, in which platforms' hands are both tied and blameless—though Hawley is not alone in making these kinds of claims.
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"Victim for victim and death for death, cutting out the hearts and other organs from living, blameless, harmless, peaceable people constitutes one of the worst mass atrocities of this century," he said.
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CS: Your reluctance to celebrate your colleague at her baby shower stems from your disapproval of her infidelity, but as you rightly point out, her soon-to-be-born baby is blameless.
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Theodore M. Hesburgh, who was president of the University of Notre Dame for 35 years, is a portrait of a man who can be seen as not merely blameless, but genuinely heroic.
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It's not good for our cause, in my view, to imagine that all women are honorable, good-natured, extremely smart, fearless and blameless, and, above all, no longer the accomplices of men.
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The people who originate the memes, like peasants who grow poppies or coca, aren't painted as blameless, exactly, but their behavior is understood to reflect incentives that have been engineered by others.
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On Twitter, there were mixed responses to Mehaidli's termination, although even people who thought he should've shut up and put the barbecue sauce on his shelf said that Fastenal wasn't blameless either.
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"Victim for victim and death for death, cutting out the hearts and other organs from living, blameless, harmless, peaceable people constitutes one of the worst mass atrocities of this century," Sabi said.
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"It's about a particular moment in my life, when someone very close to me wanted the attention of somebody else," Puth says, before admitting that he wasn't entirely blameless in the relationship's dissolution.
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On the whole, it simply transfers wealth from punters to bookmakers; in the most extreme cases, it paves the way for devastating gambling addictions that can plunge bettors' blameless families into financial ruin.
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The ideological message about Israel included only selective historical references, with both speakers blaming Israel for the lack of peace, holding the Palestinians blameless, and insisting that Israel sacrifice to repair the situation.
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The judge in the case, T.S. Ellis III, said that while Mr. Manafort's financial crimes were very serious, he had "lived an otherwise blameless life" and the guidelines suggested an unduly harsh punishment.
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One Republican member, Andy Goodell, worried that the rules could burden small businesses, which he said could face financial hardship from legal fees related to harassment claims even if owners were found blameless.
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Poor whites, meanwhile, mostly showed up in stories about hunger and old age — poverty often considered blameless — and in fewer than half of stories on poverty, far below their share of the poor.
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And Barry himself can never quite see that he is not a blameless victim, and that even his own self-pity is a luxury, a commodified good on par with his expensive watches.
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"We are told that Mr. Blaine has been delinquent in office but blameless in public life, while Mr. Cleveland has been a model of official integrity but culpable in personal relations," the supporter said.
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But given that at least one employee said Bloomfield effectively told her to get to "get used to" Friedman's behavior or "get out" — what's obvious is that she knew enough not to be blameless.
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When Clay listens to his tape, Hannah informs him immediately that he is blameless and innocent, that she's just including him on her list because she wants him to know what happened to her.
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We've all grown disillusioned with a media that insists it be treated as a kind of oracle, blameless and objective, while concealing its inevitable biases, its susceptibility to the pressures of advertisers and trendiness.
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Modern commercial airline conditions like shrinking economy seats and packed flights are of course not blameless for mid-air misbehavior, but the study highlights the ability of reminders of inequality to escalate the situation.
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Creditors – who are far from blameless, having ignored the risks of investing in an island whose finances had been shaky for years – want as much a return on their investment as they can recover.
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Or at least it was until we saw the execution of our own innocents, when Trenton and Mobley, two of the most blameless characters in this story, were cruelly murdered as Dark Army patsies.
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But Judge T.S. Ellis III opined that Manafort had lived "an otherwise blameless life," and that the probation office's guideline sentence of 19 to 24 years would be "excessive," according to CNN's Shimon Prokupecz.
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That this potential reconciliation is being spun as a positive in the British tabloids shows just how dire Prince Andrew's PR situation is, as Fergie is not exactly blameless when it comes to Epstein.
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They want to be seen as temples to the creative spirit untouched by the ruthless machinations of capital, a blameless zone of public service, but a quick scan of their patrons reveals the truth.
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Some jurors "could never get comfortable" with saying Shelby was blameless in the death because it appeared she could have used a Taser in the moments before Crutcher reached into the vehicle, the letter said.
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French pharma giant, Sanofi, who makes the sleep aid notorious for causing its users to do strange things while in a sleepwalking state, quickly retorted with a tweet defending their blameless product against such libel.
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Journalists are invited to the Oval Office to ask about infrastructure; he turns the subject to how Bill O'Reilly, late of Fox News, is a "good person," blameless, like him, in matters of sexual harassment.
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This is something everyone knows, and there is no way that Schwarber, when asked, would or even could have given anything but this sort of blameless, rote answer to the sort of flat, rote question.
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At the funeral for 103 Russian sailors, Captain Sergei Pavlov hailed the "blameless heroes" for dousing the fire that broke out on their nuclear spy submarine, called the Losharik, during a secret mission last month.
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"Neither Republicans nor Democrats are blameless for where things stand in our politics and on this nomination," Mr. Bennet said in a statement, which did not reveal his voting intentions on Judge Gorsuch's nomination itself.
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"Pharma bro" Martin Shkreli said, "I was a fool" and called himself "far from blameless" in an emotional jailhouse letter to a judge asking her to give him a light prison sentence for his crimes.
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It was the blameless, hard-working Warriors, like Steve Kerr (averaging a salary of $5 million a year) and Kevin Durant (guaranteed more than $54,000,36.83 between this year and next year), who would pay the price.
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To their surprise, they discovered that the other group — apparently seen as blameless in their country's policies — had been treated much better than the Al Thanis during their captivity, with adequate food, showers and respectful guards.
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It couldn't be my own conscience, which is as innocent as a spring lamb, and certainly couldn't be because the long, extremely slow-moving arm of the law has been on my blameless mind these days.
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Lawrence has found her ultimate fate as the season three equivalent of season two's Eve, the blameless nice white lady who is destroyed by Gilead through no fault of her own, thus illustrating its fundamental corrosiveness.
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Armitstead appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on the basis that she was blameless for the first whereabouts failure, in Sweden last year, because the testers had not contacted her in the proper manner.
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RECENT police shootings of apparently blameless black men in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Falcon Heights, Minnesota have shed fresh light on a decades-old concern: the alarming rate at which police officers use lethal force on civilians.
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"After examining the evidence, including the security guards' versions and the video footage ... the case has been closed against one of the guards for lack of evidence and the other because he was blameless," the ministry statement said.
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Despite the fact that these remote populations are essentially blameless for the climate crisis, which is primarily caused by fossil fuel emissions from wealthy nations, they are facing disproportionate disruptions as they lose a crucial source of freshwater.
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Never mind that music in that vein is now a shorthand for a patriotism as blameless as a bald eagle and has been paraphrased for campaign ads for Ronald Reagan and Rick Perry (incongruous, given Copland's political proclivities).
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Next week, Judge Amy Berman Jackson will sentence Manafort for other crimes he was convicted of and will probably show less kindness and generosity to the criminal that Judge Ellis incredibly stated had otherwise lived a blameless life.
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On the other hand, Duncan was always at his most interesting when he was a little creepy, and the show's insistence on giving him a blameless hero's exit means that he's leaving as the blandest version of himself.
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And while Ellis reportedly said he was surprised Manafort didn't apologize — he didn't really seem to hold it against him, opining that Manafort's life had been otherwise "blameless," before making a dramatic downward departure from the sentencing guidelines.
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The stories served to remind the court of what had been lost, but they also must have reassured Roof that these were indeed the type of blameless, decent people whom he said he had set out to hurt.
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Between his sycophancy, which moved George Will to say that Pence could be "America's most repulsive figure," and his widely noted absences, Pence has established a record that would make him blameless but also acceptable as a successor.
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But several Democrats interviewed in the aftermath of the election say Clinton is hardly blameless, pointing to her original decision in 2009 to create a private email server outside of government systems during her time as secretary of state.
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For example, hacking into a power plant in Russia so it can be shut off if conflict arises between the two countries may appear to be an effective deterrent, but deployment may cause collateral damage and impact blameless civilians.
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He spoke favorably of Manafort at times, noting that aside from the criminal conduct he was convicted of, he'd "lived an otherwise blameless life," and pointed to supportive testimonials submitted to the court by Manafort's wife, daughter, and friends.
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Under existing law, before DACA, these children were just as subject to deportation as their parents, even though they were blameless in the decision to cross the border and most have known no other home besides the United States.
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That a subsequent news story of alleged sexual assault — a crime in which Clinton was obviously blameless — would then lead some of those same suburban white women to discount the female candidate is a painful, paradoxical quirk of history.
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And Gen can't let herself be mad at Peter because she's still pursuing him, so she gets mad at blameless Lara Jean instead, convincing herself that Lara Jean just went for it with Gen's crush and betrayed their friendship.
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"Hakan Atilla is a blameless pawn, collateral damage in a story that belongs in the 'Twilight Zone,' not in an American courtroom," Victor J. Rocco, a lawyer for Mr. Atilla, told the jury on Tuesday in the defense's summation.
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Simmering violence between Iran and Saudi Arabia isn't about a millennium-long religious conflict in which both sides resort to asymmetrical tactics like terrorism — it's about Iran spreading its malign influence at the expense of a blameless U.S. ally.
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Other environmental groups worry that it will not prove possible to contain gene drives to a single place, and that species seen as invasive in one place might end up decimated in other places where they are blameless, or even beneficial.
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Though it may be possible to identify the rational and moral elements of Huggins's fear, are not some fears, like those we experience when our lives are threatened, purely rational, and the capitulations they authorize blameless concessions to threatening force?
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Ahead of the meeting, experts and administration officials fretted that the President could emerge from his meeting with Putin without condemning Russia's actions toward Ukraine, or perhaps even having accepted Putin's interpretation of the incident -- one in which Russia was blameless.
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Koreans will be quick to tell you that the gray haze steamrolling their city wafts over from China and Mongolia, but the unending parade of cars in this sprawling metro area of over 20 million are probably not entire blameless.
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For that matter, you may not care for the rich too-muchness of his source and touchstone, the Book of Job, in which God allows the faith of his most blameless believer to be tested by a pileup of outrageous adversity.
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Flowers were piled knee-deep at the gates of the royal palaces; grown men wept openly in the streets; mild-mannered citizens inveighed against the usually blameless queen for what they believed was an inadequate response to a national crisis.
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At the hearing before a packed courtroom, Judge Ellis called the recommended guideline range "excessive" and remarked that Manafort — a man who built a vast fortune consulting for tyrants of various stripes around the world — had led an otherwise "blameless" life.
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Now that a high-profile Hollywood star has chosen to publicly conflate his homosexuality with alleged sexual misconduct with a minor, how many more parents in small towns will whisper warnings to their children about their blameless gay teacher or lesbian church leader?
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The jury foreman, in a letter released to the news media, wrote that some jurors "could never get comfortable" with saying Shelby was blameless in the death because it appeared she could have used a Taser before Crutcher reached into the vehicle.
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For example, Duo co-founder and technology chief Jon Oberheide, who sold his company to Cisco for over $2 billion last year, is already working with the Cmd team, while Bhaskar Sunkara, chief technology officer and co-founder of AppDynamics, is advising Blameless.
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While some of the staff were the ones responsible for all the messes — ranging from regulatory missteps to dysfunctional management to toxic workplace behaviors to legal minefields — a great swath of Uber's 16,000 staffers are blameless and just trying to do their jobs.
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Therefore, it is not surprising that Judge Ellis has further demonstrated his lack of fitness by inexplicably characterizing the life of Mr. Manafort as "otherwise blameless" and by imposing a sentence of such unwarranted leniency as to virtually obliterate the sentencing guidelines.
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None of them look at observed facts and seek to explain their relationship; they do the opposite, starting with an unshakable conclusion (Trump is beloved, West is left-leaning, Kavanaugh is blameless) and speculating that some facts must exist to support it.
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I would take a page from Bill Gates, who pulled back from Microsoft and transformed from the corporate villain of a generation into the philanthropic patron saint of billionaires, the billionaire who made billionairedom so lovable and blameless in the first place.
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BERLIN, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Europe is not blameless in the trade tensions casting a pall over the global economy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, mentioning the lengthening Brexit negotiations as a source of uncertainty to stand beside the United States-China trade war.
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If Congress can work with President Trump and cut a deal that expands highly skilled immigration and lets us keep our blameless, extraordinary young immigrants, it will be a great triumph -- for the tech industry, jobs, the economy and America as a whole.
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He is not blameless — compare his body of work this season with the brilliance of Westbrook, who has miraculously steered the Thunder to a 32-25 record in the absence of Kevin Durant — but his opportunities to chase a championship are thinning.
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Boyhood in its innocence was a realm on which Mr. Abloh had set his sights and — while the designer's motives may be blameless — one got the sense that if Vuitton does not yet own that particular demographic, it is certainly on the list.
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I just thought, "Wow," because he deviated from those sentences and then sentencing guidelines and then added to putting salt on the wound by saying, the judge said about Manafort, "He led a blameless life until then," and that just wasn't true.
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In the interview, Pelosi doubled down on her belief that Facebook wasn't a blameless party during the foreign election interference in 2016, pointing to the fact that they kept the falsified video of her up on the platform even though they knew it was manipulated.
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National Democrats, seizing on the story to accuse Trump of breaking a promise, would have put their desire to accuse the Trump administration of going after blameless "DREAMers" over their obligation to be honest with their constituents about the reality of current immigration policy.
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More from Trump's 20-minute chat with reporters: Scott Pruitt's ethical behavior: "Scott Pruitt is doing a great job within the walls of the EPA," but "I'm not saying he's blameless" Trump said he's considering pardoning thousands of people, including deceased boxer Muhammad Ali.
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And so the players here, most of them blameless in the qualifying debacle, were fully aware that the weight of disappointment would rest on their shoulders, that the task of starting to rehabilitate the spirit of the program was, for the moment, in their hands.
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And if Price isn't reasonably blameless in this stock purchase incident or if he's not up to taking the intense heat sure to come his way, his chances to survive the Democrats' extreme desire to shoot down at least one Trump nominee won't be very good.
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It also didn't have much of an objective — beyond downing as many blameless machines as possible — but the trailer suggests that main character Alloy is going to face aggressive humans as well as AIs on her quest to work out what the hell happened to society.
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A few clear examples come — fittingly enough — courtesy of Variety, whose January 26 cover story takes on the #OscarsSoWhite issue directly, even while admitting that Variety, with its deep connections and widespread influence in Hollywood, is far from blameless in the grander systemic scheme of things.
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While actual DACA recipients are likely to be in their 20s and 30s — someone in high school when the DREAM Act was first introduced, in 2001, would be 30 or older now — the stereotypical DREAMer has remained a high school or college student, blameless and bright-futured.
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To the Editor: What has justice come to when a judge can say that a man who has served tyrants and engaged in every manner of political skulduggery has led an "otherwise blameless life" before being found guilty of multiple counts of fraud and tax evasion?
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I mean, sure, he maybe didn't live them — immediately helping Tom collect "skulls" by figuring out where to cut costs at Fox News stand-in and principle violater ATN, a revelation that will likely ax the few relatively blameless people at the network — but he said them.
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They're the kind of books you love if you're still waiting for your Hogwarts owl but also would really enjoy a good conversation over whether Snape can strictly be said to be redeemed at the end of the Harry Potter, given his years of bullying blameless children under his care.
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While they will no doubt want to be held blameless, at least some appear to have been negligent in monitoring their admissions programs and others at a minimum clueless as to things like so-called student athletes gaining admission for sports they never played and won't play at the college level.
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The party has long been in the habit of rejecting awkward facts and attributing them to conspiracies: it's not a big jump from claiming that climate change is a giant hoax perpetrated by the entire scientific community to asserting that Trump is the blameless target of a vast deep state conspiracy.
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The bulk of the book consists of Grandison delivering life lessons to, and being praised by, his many admirers; what little plot it has concerns a love triangle in which our hero, though blameless—according to his own protestations—winds up entangled with two women, both desperately in love with him.
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Government-run prisons aren't blameless here—prison-guard unions lobby for longer sentences and tougher laws—but the private companies know how to throw their weight around, and they benefit from strong local support, as they are often in rural towns without many other sources of jobs or tax revenue.
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That's hardly any sort of endorsement -- ringing or otherwise -- of Trump's long-held position that the entire probe is a witch hunt for which he is entirely blameless and which is solely the result of disgruntled Democrats who can't get over losing what they believed to be a sure-thing election.
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Francesco Totti was harshly sent off for diving; Damiano Tommasi had a goal wrongly disallowed for offside; Choi Jin-cheul two-footed Gianluca Zambrotta and Kim Tae-young threw an elbow at Alessandro del Piero without consequence, even if the Italians were less than blameless in the rough and tumble of the game.
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Contention — between those who believe that Shostakovich was a blameless martyr, opposed to and victimized by the Soviet government, and those of us who believe he made pragmatic compromises to survive and prosper — reached such a pitch that if you search for "Shostakovich wars" on Google, it will fetch thousands of hits.
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"Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general, said that Vindman is blameless and simply followed the training he'd received as a soldier, migrants are 'overwhelmingly good people' and 'not all rapists'; and Trump's decision to condition military aid to Ukraine on an investigation into [Biden] upended longstanding U.S. policy," Peter Nicholas reports in the Atlantic.
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That's not to say that this NRA is completely blameless: it has a tendency to oppose things like increases to the minimum wage, pay increases for workers who receive tips (read: restaurant workers), and increased numbers of sick days, and it has actively campaigned against legislation to lower the legal blood alcohol content for drivers.
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When it comes to Afghanistan policy, there are no blameless, or bloodless, hands among any of the American presidents, Democrat or Republican — and this goes back even further than Carter: in fact, to Eisenhower pumping billions into an Idaho-based construction company tasked with creating dams and towns called "Little America" in southern Afghanistan.
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"We do not believe that the DREAM Act should be coupled with any additional border enforcement measures or the elimination of family visa categories, since the bill by itself represents the best of American values, and gives blameless young people the chance to succeed and contribute to our country," wrote LULAC's National Executive Committee.
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"Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless," the Bible verse read.
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And as cruel as it seems to many Americans to deport people they think of as blameless children, it's arguably crueler to take official government recognition and security away from someone who hasn't done anything to provoke the revocation, and who handed all of her personal information over to the government in order to receive protection.
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That celebrities are taking action is good, but governments and multinationals that do business with the wealthy sultanate have an obligation to look for ways to persuade Sultan Hassanal and other beneficiaries of Brunei's oil riches that they best quickly bring their laws into compliance with their human rights obligations and abandon vicious punishments for blameless behavior.
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The case also introduced the argument that undocumented children were legally blameless, unlike their parents: "The classification at issue deprives a group of children of the opportunity for education afforded all other children simply because they have been assigned a legal status due to a violation of law by their parents," Justice Lewis Powell wrote in a concurring opinion.
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That said, when June dropped the stone in "Night," it felt earned: She was choosing to direct her anger toward Gilead, instead of letting Gilead redirect her anger onto a probably blameless target the way she did during the Salvaging all the way back in episode one, and we could see the emotional impetus for it.
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In her research at one government organization, she found that employees tended to view the sexual harassment policy as a way for irrational women to target blameless men: "The employees shifted the meaning of the policy such that female targets of sexual harassment were framed as the perpetrators and male perpetrators were framed as innocent victims," she wrote in the Harvard Business Review.
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Ron WydenRonald (Ron) Lee WydenWyden blasts FEC Republicans for blocking probe into NRA over possible Russia donations Wyden calls for end to political ad targeting on Facebook, Google Ex-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity MORE (D-Ore.) said Congress is not blameless, as it cut funding from the co-op program from $6 billion to about $2.4 billion.
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The first time I saw a horse trainer "steal" a race — by shipping a horse more talented than it looked in its past performance chart to a track far from home and cashing a bet on it — I was standing at the rail when a crowd of angry bettors turned not on the trainer but on the (this time) blameless jockeys.
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Put into context, Oberheide is helping with half of Decibel's portfolio, which includes the three-year-old, Vancouver-based cybersecurity startup CMD, which last month closed on $15 million in funding led by GV. (It's this team that Oberheide is helping.) Decibel has also backed Blameless, a developer of software for site reliability engineers that announced $20 million in funding just last week led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
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So it was striking, this week, to find Mr Arpaio rather relaxed after several days in which Mr Trump seemed to hint that his immigration policies might be about to soften—even to the point of giving interviews saying that he will focus deportation efforts on "bad guys" and other foreigners with criminal records, while pondering a more leisurely approach for those who have lived blameless working lives for many years.
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The man in charge of the Berghof, and Heydrich's match when it came to villainy, at least among Germans who still believed that Hitler was excitable but blameless—a visionary whose ravings might fill tens of thousands of followers at a torchlit rally with fear and trembling, but who in fact lived only to restore Germany to its rightful glory—is the Führer's chief of staff and private secretary, Martin Bormann.
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To critics of the #MeToo movement who fear that we are in the midst of a witch hunt and that blameless men are being publicly destroyed, Keillor's story became exhibit A. In the New York Times earlier this month, Daphne Merkin held him up as a contrast to "heinous sorts" like Kevin Spacey and Matt Lauer, arguing that Keillor had been unfairly tarred with the same brush as serious sexual predators.
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She even wrote this untitled poem, most likely in 1861, about her persona: A solemn thing – it was – I said A Woman – white – to be And wear – if God should count me fit – Her blameless mystery – A hallowed thing – to drop a life Into the mystic well – Too plummetless – that it come back – Eternity – until – I ponder how the bliss would look – And would it feel as big – When I could take it in my hand – As hovering – seen – through fog – And then – the size of this "small " life – The Sages – call it small – Swelled – like Horizons – in my vest – And I sneered – softly – "small"!
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