"hold" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- An example of a moral evil might be murder, or any other evil event for which someone can be held responsible or culpable.
- Nevertheless, a defendant who successfully argues involuntary intoxication will not be held culpable for actions they carried out while intoxicated.
- If this does not work they cannot be held culpable.
- Later, I learned that I and members of my family could be held culpable.
- Roscoe was uneasily aware that he was held culpable in some quarters for Jake's escape.
- In modern times, it is considered in most criminal justice systems that non-human creatures lack moral agency and so cannot be held culpable for an act.
- He would not be held culpable in the circumstances.
- Psychiatrists are divided as to whether these men can be held culpable for their actions.
- Those who became pregnant were held morally culpable for having got themselves into "trouble," as if their seducers or traducers were in no way responsible.
- The Clintons, it seems, had the intelligence to be held culpable for their actions.
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