Of course, none of this absolves Shincheonji of potential wrongdoing.
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The film defames with one hand and absolves with the other.
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Being two steps removed absolves you from any PR problems right?
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Rather than harshly judge Vincent's shitty behavior, 'Catherine' instead absolves him.
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Do you think addiction absolves users of responsibility for their actions?
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Data informs how decisions get made; it also conveniently absolves Facebook of blame.
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None of this absolves Badger or Daubenspeck for passing on misinformation to investors.
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The shift also, in a way, absolves the company of responsibility for moderation.
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Remove the big government umbilical cord that absolves personal responsibility and breeds dependence.
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To be clear, none of this absolves the teams or even the players themselves.
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It temporarily absolves us of the responsibility to address the heart of the matter.
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When the Senate absolves him next year he will claim to have been vindicated.
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They rationalize that Trump's indulgence of certain religious factions absolves him of his sins.
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Wayne's other notable Gaga moment isn't dramatically better, but maybe it absolves him a little.
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He absolves her of guilt and then tells her it's not going to be simple.
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Viserion's death in no way absolves Game of Thrones of those kind of narrative shortcuts.
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"Viceroy's House" absolves everyone—Lord Mountbatten, the British, Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims—of blame for the suffering.
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"Oh, well she hasn't read it yet" somehow absolves you from your crime — for a period.
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It is the phrase that absolves the A.K. Party of its own transgressions and condemns everyone else.
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Like many Cubans she absolves Fidel of blame for the country's current economic hardships but holds Raúl responsible.
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Ben absolves her of that responsibility, but let's not put him in the good guy column just yet.
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Writing them off as "irredeemable" precludes that possibility, since it absolves us of any responsibility to engage them.
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Apparently, Trump would eat his burgers without bread, which either absolves it or makes one question his judgement.
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It keeps the burden where it's always been, which is on women, and absolves men of their responsibilities.
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It absolves us of our own complicity in how the world of power around us has been shaped.
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Like the emotional labor of guilt kind of absolves them of actually confronting inequality in a material way.Right.
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It saves costs, it avoids hard decisions, it absolves leaders and employees of the sins committed by users.
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Declaring force majeure absolves a company from responsibility for delays to fulfilling contracts due to circumstances beyond its control.
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His oft-repeated contention is that Apu's positive, nuanced portrayal in the past absolves the show of any guilt.
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If you can communicate the right things to the right people at the right time, it absolves that exacerbation.
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The lie surrounding black erasure absolves Forsyth County's whites of racial cleansing and mass theft of black-owned property.
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That said, none of this absolves Saudi Arabia of its responsibility to reform many social and legal issues internally.
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We are constructing a narrative that absolves us — citizens of wealthy countries — and places other culprits in our place.
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But others have cottoned to the Trump-is-liberal line because it absolves the movement of responsibility for creating him.
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Rod Rosenstein's expected departure from his post in no way absolves him of his responsibility to answer questions before Congress.
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" But it absolves Ms. Clinton of responsibility, adding, "Secretary Clinton never personally denied any requests for additional security in Benghazi.
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Their hope, these people said, is that the argument somehow absolves him from the typical company restrictions around whistle-blowing.
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They call it Ganga Mata, or mother Ganga, and believe a dip in the river absolves a lifetime of sins.
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This is thanks to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which legally absolves platforms from responsibility for user-generated content.
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The agreement absolves Stone and Kilmer from any wrongdoing and forbids O'Heaney from ever discussing the allegations and the settlement publicly.
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Still, none of this absolves investors from doing the hard work of determining what each candidate would mean for their money.
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In so doing, it absolves the rest of us (white people) from responsibility for the popularity of Mr. Trump's unabashed racism.
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I am past hating, past the longing for Italy where blowing snow absolves and whitens a kneeling mountain range outside Milan.
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Khaled, you see, is a "provider" of material comforts, and in his mind, this absolves him from needing to pleasure his wife.
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Fifty years after the fact, she absolves him of any lingering shame he feels about not dashing out to save her sooner.
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"Do You Believe"—an upbeat southern soul anthem, the ultimate neo-Christmas song for the non-Christian—absolves me of that dilemma.
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It implies that poor outcomes happen only because a patient fails treatment and wholly absolves the treatment for its lack of efficacy.
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" Meanwhile, Mr. Trump has continued to focus on insisting that the report absolves him personally, tweeting, "Nothing changes from the Mueller Report.
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Thousands of Indians immerse themselves and idols of their gods every day, believing a dip in the Ganges absolves a lifetime of sins.
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That absolves them (and, by proxy, us) from any moral or ethical responsibility; by the end, the story becomes less complex, not more.
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Whether the report absolves Trump or not, many people close to him who cooperated with the special counsel believe it likely could prove embarrassing.
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It absolves those who chose to support Trump's bigotry, and those who chose not to resist it with everything they have, of all responsibility.
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THR reports that the show has been shelved indefinitely, while the Netflix deal absolves Benioff and Weiss of ever having to touch it again.
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But the film goes beyond the surface, past that gut response, and absolves itself from painting Sarah as the evil heartbreaker we initially perceived.
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I want equal time with men at all awards shows, not just one woman-focused one that absolves Hollywood for the rest of the year.
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It absolves our tribal leaders of their reluctance to show up for meetings and to fight diligently and thanklessly in the trenches of numb process.
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He's been repeatedly accused of selectively editing videos from protests in a manner that absolves far-right activists of responsibility and skews blame towards antifa.
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Because shredding the INF Treaty won't make the Russians behave -- it just absolves them of responsibility and shifts blame for the breakdown to the Americans.
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" He also wrote that a good-guys-bad-guys narrative "absolves us of the hard things we have to do to win back the world's trust.
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Look no further than the debate over Section 230, part of a 1996 law that absolves platforms of legal liability for the content published on it.
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As a fellow millennial, I know firsthand that Ocasio-Cortez's college experience probably taught her that being a socialist absolves her of knowing much at all.
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Ohler does not believe the drug abuse even slightly absolves the crimes against humanity committed by the Nazis, nor does he think it normalizes their behavior.
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In a particularly disturbing look at his psyche, Kelly also seems to believe that the cycle of abuse made their actions inevitable — and absolves their responsibility.
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Even as we say we disapprove, we also tend to say it is necessary, or unavoidable, or some other word that absolves us of our decisions.
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It also absolves all of us — Indians and other Americans — for the greatest sin of all: We made the government that is doing this to us.
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" Watkins wrote, adding: "Rather than governing our way into a sustainable economy, Yang's plan absolves the government from overseeing companies that could render countless workers obsolete.
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For a very different view, Christopher Buskirk argues in The Times that the Mueller report absolves Barr and Trump and makes only the media look bad.
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" Mr. Buffett added, "My will also absolves both the executors and the trustees from liability for maintaining what obviously will be an extreme concentration of assets.
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And the formal investigation into the 9/11 attacks absolves Iran of fore-knowledge and operational involvement in the attacks on New York and the Pentagon.
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Attorneys James Voyles and Jennifer Lukemeyer said the finding "exonerates and absolves Mr. Curtis Hill of any factual and legal criminal behavior," according to a statement.
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Forgiving the shooter, immediately after the tragedy or a year later, neither absolves nor clears America of the history of racism that contributed to the tragedy.
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But none of that absolves his FBI, or the DOJ for that matter, from failing to divulge essential and exculpatory information from Ohr to the FISA court.
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This reading absolves the Confederacy of its desire to preserve slavery and frames the conflict as a hero's fight for states' rights and the preservation of heritage.
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When you sign up to use almost any online platform, you're agreeing to some variation of a Terms of Service agreement that absolves the platform of responsibility.
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But it would be recklessly premature for the president or anyone else to conclude that today's filing absolves the Trump campaign and its associates of any wrongdoing.
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And don't worry: If anyone starts to think that reading a book about racism absolves them from complicity with the system, the poetry winner will set them straight.
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When consumers diligently separate their recyclables from organic waste at the source, trust in their local recycling systems absolves them of much of the mental guilt of consumption.
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The central question in the case is whether the pollution's transit through the earth before hitting ocean absolves the county of the need to acquire a federal permit.
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This aspect of the report incorrectly suggests that the structure of the Free File program "somehow absolves or excuses the program from public accountability," Warren and Brown wrote.
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I genuinely can't believe it's so beloved in some circles, even when accounting for how much white people (guilty as charged!) enjoy entertainment that absolves them of responsibility.
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The flailing also absolves the Democratic Party, currently torn between radicalism and evasion on immigration, from actually having to propose a coherent alternative to the White House's approach.
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This is an ideology that absolves men from any responsibility of committing the crime of rape and blames the victim for not protecting her honor by covering up.
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Put together, the changes signaled an attempt to strike a "we publish, you decide" stance that absolves Facebook of responsibility for declaring what is and is not true.
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But the most pernicious lie beneath "avant-garde" or "experimental" is that some people falsely claim that this designation somehow absolves them of the political context of their work.
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Indeed, pointing out the awfulness of the West Bank model in no way absolves the Palestinians of responsibility for their refusal to make any kind of peace with Israel.
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Relying on the vague idea of attrition absolves the court of its responsibility to be the ultimate arbiter and guardian of the Constitution — and specifically of the Eighth Amendment.
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Apple's App Store Terms and Conditions clearly absolves it from any responsibility for a hack, breach, or data loss stemming from the use of any apps you purchase from it.
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But none of this absolves the United States of a basic responsibility to keep vulnerable people, children above all, in the most humane conditions possible when their detention is required.
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But experts say that Trump's offer to save ZTE is worrying both as a total policy reversal and because it absolves ZTE for actions that undermined US national security interests.
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In Hawley's view, Section 230 is a "sweetheart deal" from Congress that absolves tech companies of responsibility for the content users post on their platforms and how they police that content.
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I won't go so far as to say that Green Book absolves the North of racism, because it doesn't, but it certainly points to where it thinks the "worst" racism was.
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These details complicate her valorizing portrait — a complication that remains unresolved in the biography (although, presumably, Gropius's later marriage to a Jewish woman absolves him of any charges of anti-Semitism).
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But Trump's White House counsel insist that they are cooperating with Mueller in the hopes that he will bring the investigation to a swift conclusion that absolves the president of wrongdoing.
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None of this absolves some of the key players from culpability in the crime, much less their sins as parents and caregivers, but their destinies aren't entirely their own to determine.
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"I think whatever we do should be limited and businesslike and, frankly, always accompanied with the caveat that none of this absolves him from previous wretched behavior and statements," said Rep.
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Even if we give Congress the benefit of the doubt — job roles vary across the respective chambers and offices — the math doesn't lie and it absolves no party and no chamber.
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Why it matters: The window for Saudi Arabia to put forward an explanation that explains Khashoggi's disappearance, absolves MBS of responsibility and passes muster with the world is getting narrower and narrower.
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I think that is naive in the most overdetermined and unconvincing way, and that it absolves a lot of things that aren't remotely worth absolving, but mostly I think it is childish.
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Many people shift the blame onto her parents, specifically her mother Kim Kardashian West, but to do so absolves the paparazzi — and indeed, ourselves, as the consumers of these images — of culpability.
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For instance, as psychologist David Ley argues in his book TheMyth of Sex Addiction, when we incorrectly use the "addiction"label for behaviors like this, it effectively absolves people of personal responsibility.
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In this way, the film envisions a clear determinist timeline of human evolution that absolves our species of any credit or blame for our past technological progress or our ultimate future destiny.
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To the Editor: S. Matthew Liao, a professor of moral philosophy, absolves Facebook of any responsibility for its role in the ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya population in largely Buddhist Myanmar.
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Devout Hindus believe that bathing in the waters of the Ganges absolves people of sins and bathing at the time of the Kumbh brings salvation from the cycle of life and death.
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" In a letter to Pelosi earlier this week, White House counsel Pat Cipollone said the House was undertaking a "constitutionally invalid" and "illegitimate" impeachment process that absolves lawmakers of "taking political accountability.
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But there is an ad hominem quality to this attack that frees Trump to play tribune to the poor, and, more importantly, absolves the broader GOP for nominating and endorsing Trump's racist candidacy.
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The CIA has declassifed a memo that absolves nominee Gina Haspel of responsibility for the destroying of the tapes -- but as CNN's Manu Raju explains, the controversy isn't a closed chapter just yet.
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Blaming pilots, who often aren't alive to defend themselves, absolves everyone else – air-traffic controllers, regulators, plane and parts manufacturers – and allows the system to carry on without identifying or solving the underlying problems.
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He has a book coming out next year and has said he could testify in Trump impeachment proceedings if a judge absolves him of the President's claims of executive privilege to mask their conversations.
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If Riyadh finds a scapegoat and absolves senior members of the royal family over the disappearance of The Washington Post columnist in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul two weeks ago, Trump may accept it.
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The Ukraine server conspiracy matters not only because it's wrong, or because it empowers and absolves Russia, or because it weakens the strategically vital relationship between the US and Ukraine for no discernible benefit.
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"Our understanding of the circumstances" implies that Rowling, Yates, and others involved in Fantastic Beasts know something we don't – something not legally documented or publicly stated but which ostensibly absolves Grindelwald of his alleged crimes.
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The trouble with assigning blame to an individual, as most of the Dota 2 community has done, is it absolves the system of any responsibility for laying the foundations for that individual's supposed moral failings.
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The repeated descriptions of Idlib as a "terrorist hotbed" support the regime's narrative that all opposition to its rule consists of terrorist groups; it also absolves the international community of any responsibility to protect civilians.
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And while the love story comes together, the mystery of how Aden and Miranda will best Vale is a satisfying plot engine that absolves readers from romantic worry while they enjoy this enticing, enchanting ride.
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Mom's group: We'll never be silent on guns again The companies contend they are shielded under the federal legislation, which absolves gun manufacturers from liability if a firearm is "misused" in a crime to kill people.
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Therefore while we acknowledge Grzelcyk does adjust his body position in making a play on the puck, he does not do so in a way that absolves Sundqvist of responsibility for the nature of this hit.
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These other people when they make a mistake, the left absolves them and doesn&apost, you know, sort of excuses them and explains why what they said wasn&apost that bad and that there are no consequences.
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Like Facebook, Google, and Twitter — who all have substantial hate speech problems of their own — it is protected under section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which absolves platforms of liability for the behavior of their users.
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When the flesh that nourished us well Is eaten piecemeal, ah, see it swell, And we, the bones, are dust and gall, Let no one make fun of our ill, But pray that God absolves us all.
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Behind Trump, supporters wore T-shirts with "Read The Transcript" written on them, a reference to the White House line that the partial readout of the President's call with the Ukrainian President absolves him of any crime.
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Craig Antico, founder of the nonprofit charity R.I.P. Medical Debt — which buys and absolves health care debt in bulk — told NYT that the market price for $81 billion in debt could be as low as $500 million.
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In the second quotation, D'Souza absolves herself of responsibility for the critique by using the passive construction "was … read," as though others were responsible for that reading and she merely means to report their feelings and arguments.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg pointed out that under the accommodation, it is the insurer or a third party who have an "independent obligation" to provide the coverage which exempts absolves the objecting groups from having to do so.
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READ: Saudi court absolves Crown Prince by sentencing 5 Khashoggi hitmen to death The alleged hacking of Bezos' phone came five months before the murder of Khashoggi, who was killed inside the Saudi embassy in Istanbul in October 2018.
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According to Wellerstein, the problem with the misperception is that the entire world will be transformed into a toxic river in less than three hours, is that it absolves people of the responsibilities that come with surviving a nuclear war.
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Finally, the whitelash thesis is convenient because it absolves liberals of not recognizing how their own obsession with diversity has encouraged white, rural, religious Americans to think of themselves as a disadvantaged group whose identity is being threatened or ignored.
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"They still have a lot of opportunity to point their clients and the firms they work for toward which levers in Congress to pull without actually having to make the calls themselves, which absolves them of the requirement to file," Auble said.
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He then hilariously blames Barack Obama for this mess—as if the situation in the Crimea somehow absolves his bromance with Putin or his campaign's communications with Russian intelligence—before returning to the primary talking point: that the real story is the leaks.
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You could argue the system worked because it meritocratically promoted Geguri and her new teammates as it demoted the players they are replacing, but that absolves the system of how it went about evaluating the relative merits of those players last year.
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Now, however, as part of the Trump administration's drive to remove "unnecessary" regulatory "burdens" on the energy industry, the Interior Department has advanced an alternative interpretation of the law that absolves companies from engaging in foreseeable and preventable activities that kill birds.
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"[Cuomo] thinks that by checking the box on passing legislation, it absolves what is either deliberate indifference within his own administration or the lack of understanding of how serious a problem this has been within his own government," he told POLITICO last week.
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The point is that conversations about Trump's sympathy to white supremacists are transformed into celebrations of growing bank accounts, and a tacit acknowledgment that a booming economy absolves Trump's sins, even those that touch (in my opinion) third-rail issues of American character.
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The bottom line: Craig Antico, founder of the nonprofit charity R.I.P. Medical Debt — which buys and absolves health care debt in bulk — "estimated that the market price for $81 billion in debt could be as low as $500 million," the Times reports.
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Upholding the contract without allowing even temporary deviation from it essentially absolves Dr. Luke—it's a tacit suggestion that he's not guilty, or that if he is guilty, Kesha's accusations are frivolous in the face of more important concerns, like her monetary value to Sony.
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The many problematic aspects of religion, from the ways it's often received (through prophets and apostles who believe God's word in their ears absolves them of any atrocities they commit in realizing their goals) to the ways it can be warped by self-serving manipulators.
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Nonprofit charity R.I.P. Medical Debt, which buys and absolves people's health care debt in bulk, has wiped away $700 million since its inception in 2014 — and that number should hit $1 billion later this year, co-founders Jerry Ashton and Craig Antico told me.
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It's not that the constant churn somehow instantly absolves all the back-rimmed free throws and palpably jittered players and long stretches of clammy pack-zone boredom; even if you are inclined to forgive all that, it is still only precisely what it is.
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The show never absolves him of blame for his actions—he's an unlikable lead who keeps failing to get better or to fix the problems he causes—but in the sixth episode of its new season, the show tries something new: letting us inside of BoJack's head.
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And my third and most likely theory: that he's just not that into you but too cowardly to say so, instead employing this excuse that conveniently absolves him of accountability and relies on the stereotype that women are clingy girlfriends who become ball-and-chain wives.
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This is the whole reason that our age-old "Madonna versus whore" dichotomy exists in the first place: If women can be separated into good girls and bad, and only bad girls get punished, it justifies male dominance and absolves men of blame for treating women unfairly.
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Stahr quickly absolves him of the conspiracy innuendo that has dogged him from Eisenschiml to Bill O'Reilly, and on the vexed matter of whether he said that Lincoln now belonged to the "ages" or the "angels," Stahr suggests that Stanton most likely said nothing at all.
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Ultimately, UnReal absolves Rachel and Coleman of the part they played in Romeo's shooting, focusing on their regret instead — and immediately turning its lens back to their sagas, like whether or not Romeo's shooting might jeopardize the show, and all the other white people who work on it.
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There are plenty of self-identified progressives who say the Democratic Party shouldn't have to make that choice — that the things Moore stands accused of ought to overshadow any criticism of Franken, that the presence of Trump in the White House absolves any sins of Pelosi in defending Conyers.
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At its best, it temporarily relieves you from those negative feelings or absolves you from weird guilt and shame you have for not doing X, Y, or Z. But I do think we both come around to this fact that when it wears off, you are still stuck with yourself.
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"The Labor Department and the National Restaurant Association can dress this up any way they want to, but ultimately, this rule change is nothing more than robber barons masquerading as Robin Hood—not to mention that it absolves employers of their responsibility to fairly and adequately pay their employees," she said.
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State legislators in Washington have proposed eliminating a provision that absolves officers who kill unless there's proof they acted with "malice"; lawmakers in California introduced a bill to raise the standard for a justified police killing from "reasonable" to "necessary" and to require jurors to consider the role an officer played in escalating an encounter.
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Trump's pick to replace Pompeo leading the CIA, Gina Haspel, isn't scheduled to have her confirmation hearing until May 9, but late last week the agency declassified an internal memo that absolves Haspel of responsibility for destroying videotapes showing the waterboarding of terrorism suspects in 2005, an issue that's been a key sticking point for senators weighing her confirmation.
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I know that for millions of Americans, the presence of a badge on a man or woman's chest absolves him or her of just about any kind of wrongdoing, and that even though that badge confers an outsized level of power -- the legal right to detain and kill and seize property -- it comes with a lower, not higher, level of responsibility.
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Or is it worse the Democratic party bought and paid for the Russian lies that were never verified, and yet, were regurgitated by the self-righteous, sanctimonious, delusional media in this country that absolves itself as something they are not, as they claim to be unbiased and fair when they are nothing but the cheerleaders and crusaders for all things that only matter to the Democratic Party and liberal causes?
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"I think that Warren's DNA test, which shows her likely to have a smidge of Native ancestry, is first of all politically expedient for her, in that it absolves her of lying, and that gives her much needed credibility in the face of the right's attacks on her, led by Trump," said Dina Gilio-Whitaker, a citizen of Colville Confederated Tribes and an Indigenous studies scholar and writer.
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