And Mr Trump says he is considering absolving more crimes.
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But it could also end up absolving him of responsibility.
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Not everyone accepted the idea of absolving the Syrian government.
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How did they trick themselves into absolving responsibility for care?
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She says that no one must anticipate God's absolving hand.
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We are not absolving ourselves of any connection to this incident.
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I've never quite mastered either of these: letting go or absolving.
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My thoughts on Ellen and this absolving of Kevin Hart. pic.twitter.
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Trump's comments absolving Kim of responsibility for Warmbier's death were widely criticized.
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It served the dual purpose of absolving their failure and delegitimizing Trump.
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But she'd wanted Father James to absolve her if she needed absolving.
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Without exonerating or absolving these men, Maras gives them a dose of humanity.
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Painting these boys' mothers as monsters is the shortest cut to absolving ourselves.
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But some Qataris say that absolving people of their debts sets an unhealthy precedent.
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The proposal calls for the absolving of student debt for undergrad and graduate students.
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Money is the great leveler in the industry, absolving all sins, including creative ones.
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So whenever I have those critiques about toxic masculinity, I am not absolving myself.
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And they did so quickly, with officials issuing a statement absolving Spieth of any wrongdoing.
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The trouble with these hysterics, too, is that they serve a certain self-absolving purpose.
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Looking at those images, she seemed to suggest, was both self-absorbed and self-absolving.
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But it's interesting to see both of them employ the same phrase in absolving her.
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You also need to know you have no place absolving those who harm black queer folks.
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The project is about letting go: acknowledging hurt and absence, and absolving yourself from that pain.
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This isn't about absolving Ansari, or dragging Grace, or even questioning the journalistic integrity of babe.net.
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Perhaps this was a way of absolving their guilt for being dishonest or wasting my time?
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Both have painted liberal fixation on Russian influence as a conspiracy theory absolving them of 2016 sins.
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Crucially, and unlike other games, 1870 doesn't present that desert as some kind of absolving, saving place.
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Egyptian courts have been absolving Mubarak-era officials, while imposing long sentences on liberal and Islamist activists.
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A 1977 amnesty law offered a solution, absolving Franco's political opponents while shielding his supporters from prosecution.
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It was an increasingly silly assertion, possibly a way of slightly absolving himself of certain journalistic responsibilities.
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And, many conservatives hope, it may be a useful tool for absolving insurance companies of the contraceptive mandate.
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Absolving her of her responsibilities gives her little incentive to protect others from her dog in the future.
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Members are expected to continue urging the Pentagon to take additional steps, such as absolving the debt completely.
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Asked about those failures during the town hall, Trump changed the topic before ultimately absolving himself of responsibility.
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Instead, under Trump, we're absolving ourselves of all responsibility, and our allies want nothing to do with us.
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He acts as a kind of confessor in the front seat of the car, absolving Clark of his sins.
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She accused the measure's authors of inexplicably absolving Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza and organized the protests.
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The new policy, she added, encourages people to keep coming to the library without absolving violators of their responsibility.
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When it came to absolving himself of what the press called "the character issue," Hart was his own worst enemy.
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Some members of Congress, Republicans and Democrats, say that absolving ZTE of its misdeeds runs counter to national security interests.
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If the motion is granted, the next disclosure would answer most of the outstanding questions in this case, potentially absolving Wayne.
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And for that matter, Clinton and Obama aren't preemptively absolving Republicans so much as offering Republicans an opportunity to absolve themselves.
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But Mueller told ABC that he never wanted money, he simply wanted a letter from Swift absolving him of any wrongdoing.
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He seemed to be attempting to quote the governor, while at the same time absolving himself of accountability for this crisis.
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" By largely absolving Prince Mohammed of any responsibility in the killing of Mr. Khashoggi — "Maybe he did and maybe he didn't!
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Mr. Mueller's report notes that his office explicitly considered absolving the president of obstruction of justice, but emphatically chose not to.
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"The Human Rights Council enables abuses by absolving wrongdoers through silence and falsely condemning those that committed no offense," Pompeo said.
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Plaintiffs' lawyers say clients have previously been asked to hand over or destroy evidence or sign affidavits absolving defendants of wrongdoing.
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That justice-seeking fantasy I've conjured persists and grows as I watch the masses tire of self-absolving, duplicitous corporate-speak.
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White privilege is the ability to condemn how others protest their own oppression all while absolving ourselves of any sort of responsibility.
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There's a difference between not letting the haters get you down and absolving yourself of any responsibility when you write racist jokes.
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In a statement, WhatsApp seems to be absolving responsibility as the content is being shared as private messages and not public posts.
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U.S. aid in Africa has become a "moral hazard" absolving African regimes from responsibility to care and provide for their own people.
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Any historian of the Middle East would cringe at such simplistic analysis meant at absolving us from any responsibility in the conflict.
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The judge instructed the administrator overseeing the settlement to not pay the lenders, in effect absolving the players of repaying the loans.
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Kelly not only thinks he is successfully absolving himself of guilt in the public eye but somehow in the legal system as well.
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Comics who don't see that praising and absolving Louis C.K. after his apology and acknowledgement of his predatory behavior is hasty and irresponsible.
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XXXTentacion's murder sparked a complex conversation online about his contentious legacy: Did mourning him publicly mean you were absolving him of his crimes?
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The only switch case to reach a jury resulted in a verdict absolving GM of liability for a 2014 crash in New Orleans.
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Or as they might put it, they feel that morally absolving the killers would be trivialising their loss or dishonouring their loved ones.
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Ailes reportedly penned a letter to Rupert Murdoch that was also leaked to the Drudge Report, absolving himself of the claims of harassment.
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He is the one baptizing and absolving, which sure makes it sound as if he wants you to think of him as Jesus.
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This contract protects racetracks from lawsuits, but the agreements go beyond absolving the track for accidents out of their control or honest mistakes.
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Robert L. Caslen Jr., the academy's superintendent, agreed that the women should not be punished, but stopped short of absolving them of responsibility.
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Yet, in the Nashville Statement, the CBMW casts itself in exactly this role while simultaneously absolving itself of any destruction it might inflict.
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A means of absolving the sobbing, heaving, ugly mass of flesh that is his wife, the mother of his one-year-old daughter.
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" Still, he didn't get any help from anchor Bill O'Reilly, who is absolving the Cruz campaign and instead blaming rival CNN for "misreporting.
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Historians have long debated the emperor's culpability in the war, and General MacArthur helped shape the postwar narrative absolving Hirohito of direct responsibility.
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Fortunately, the district potentate seemed more amused than anything else by the idea of one man's death absolving the wrongs of a whole species.
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My mother wrote a letter, expressing pride in her five children, telling her grandchildren she loved them, and absolving her family for her decision.
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Too often, dialogue about sexual assault happens exclusively in the theoretical realm, absolving people of the responsibility of questioning their own practices around consent.
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This was a myth that was almost entirely palatable to his accusers, absolving them as it did of the uncomfortable responsibility of looking closer.
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They also worried that Parliament could approve Mr. Johnson's deal on Saturday, absolving the prime minister of any obligation to delay the Brexit deadline.
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Other property management startups like Mynd, OneRent and BelongHome only offer guaranteed rent once tenants are found, absolving themselves of most of the risk.
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And while fan excesses have become an entwined part of this universe, that history goes a way toward explaining them, if not absolving them.
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Meanwhile in the U.S., Wall Street continued to surge higher, in large part due to the FBI absolving the democratic presidential nominee of any wrongdoing.
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"Our findings show that the majority of the tweets were in fact defending Muslims and absolving them from responsibility for the attacks," the report says.
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The novel takes place in a gritty, dangerous city of Kos, where so-called sin eaters make a living devouring rich people's sins, absolving them.
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"The truth is the Democratic Party to this day, in the wake of Hillary Clinton, has gone about absolving itself of any wrongdoing," he said.
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We don't know who he's addressing: Himself, his family, or us, the listener – maybe he's absolving us for taking so much satisfaction from such dark circumstances.
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But it does call for the US to help remove Kurdish fighters from the region -- hardly absolving Trump of accusations he betrayed America's anti-ISIS allies.
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In 2014 Orban's government erected a monument to victims of the Nazi occupation that critics said depicted Hungarians only as passive victims, absolving them of guilt.
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First, to the news that the Malaysian attorney general cleared Najib of any corruption relating to the long-running financial scandal, absolving him from all wrongdoing.
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Under the agreement, Apple seems to be absolving itself of responsibility for what the authorities may choose to do with personal data in G.C.B.D.'s hands.
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Although tickets to major league games include a disclaimer absolving teams from liability for injuries incurred by thrown or batted balls, Zlotnick eventually sued the Yankees.
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While not absolving companies of their obligation to work in the best interest of participants as overseers of their accounts, it does offer some legal protection.
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" When Damon says that the situation between Paltrow and Weinstein was "handled," what he really means is, "by minimizing the situations I am absolving myself of complicity.
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Both defendants are also seeking records from Christie's cellphone through subpoenas to a law firm that previously generated a taxpayer-funded report absolving the governor of wrongdoing.
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By this accord, Sweeney encapsulates the trope of the "Magical Negro," tasked with variously solving the problems of white protagonists and absolving them of their racial biases.
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"We're hopeful that... we will have a ruling absolving Evelyn and that she will be able to continue with her life in absolute liberty," the lawyer added.
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"Spanking was a training model I have been exploring for many years," the trainer, Jiang Yang, said on his microblog, absolving the bank's leadership of direct responsibility.
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"Meow Wolf does not really have the right to require the claimant to sign anything absolving them from liability," city spokeswoman Lilia Chacon later told the publication.
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Absolving most domestic companies of their tax obligations through the opportunities offered by the Destination Based Cash Flow Tax leaves the importers to bear the tax burden.
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How can we talk about the concrete effects of these historical and material factors without absolving African Americans — or anyone else, for that matter — of their agency?
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DiCaprio and Low signed a note in March 2014 absolving the star of "any liability whatsoever resulting directly or indirectly from these art-work," according to the filings.
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Despite Mueller clearly stating that the report "does not exonerate" Trump, his reelection campaign issued a statement Thursday celebrating the report as absolving the president from any wrongdoing.
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North Korea moved to divide President Donald Trump from his national security team Thursday, issuing a statement slamming U.S. policies towards Pyongyang but notably absolving the American leader.
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Interestingly enough, the verdict absolving Padamsee reasoned that his scandalous imagery was acceptable because it appropriated the Cubist style from the West; after all, anything goes in European art.
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Ellen DeGeneres became the subject of mounting criticism after seemingly absolving fellow comedian Kevin Hart of his years-old anti-gay tweets during an appearance on her talk show Thursday.
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The CIA declassified a memo last week absolving Haspel of responsibility for destroying tapes showing torture, but key Democrats said the agency should go much further to square their concerns.
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Currently, Iranian officials are claiming that the fate of the nuclear deal rests with Europe, absolving themselves of any blame should the regime decide to move beyond its JCPOA commitments.
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Ghost Exorcism Day enables the ghosted to be the bigger person by absolving the ghoster of their sins, while also providing themselves with the closure that the other party denied them.
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I'm not absolving myself of my duty as an American to uphold the values that welcomed me here—pluralism and equality and tolerance—and that should be extended to other immigrants.
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Even "Ariel" was affected: though Plath had left a complete manuscript on her desk, Hughes altered the contents for publication, in 21958, in ways that struck many readers as self-absolving.
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Becoming a bike commuter might seem daunting, but the benefits can be worth it: exercising regularly, saving money, decreasing your carbon footprint, absolving yourself of guilt over that break-room doughnut.
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There are four inseparable requirements for absolving sins: self-examination; regret for having done the sinful act; a frank confession of the guilt; and a strong commitment to act wisely in future.
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This does double damage to American democracy, first by absolving elected politicians of their proper responsibility to govern, and then by making the Supreme Court seem too politicised, which undermines its legitimacy.
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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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After various media outlets reported on the hubbub (a lot of "fuck Slayer" sentiments made the rounds), the band quickly released a statement absolving themselves of responsibility for Araya's personal political views.
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Why this matters: The president and federal agencies and appointees are actively undermining the law by hyping Obamacare's price increases but absolving themselves of blame when independent experts say they're to blame.
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I know what you're thinking, I thought it too: Why would anyone pursue activities so dangerous that you must sign a waiver absolving the organizers of all responsibility for a catastrophic accident?
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Barr infuriated Democrats by issuing his own judgment on obstruction instead, absolving the president on the matter, even though he later told Congress that Mueller had not asked him to do so.
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While there was not a strict plan in place ahead of the report's conclusion, Trump and his Republican allies immediately launched an effort to cast the document as absolving him of wrongdoing.
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As House Democrats move swiftly toward a vote to oust President Donald Trump, GOP lawmakers aren't seriously contemplating a third option between removing him from office and absolving him of all wrongdoing.
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But it also calls attention to the destructive legacies of colonialism and highlights the artist's frustration with institutions like the British Museum that seem more fixated on absolving themselves than making amends.
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If you're Comcast, it might just be easier to stop selling its content to Hulu, or simply sell its 30 percent stake to Disney, thus absolving it of any of its losses.
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U.S. President Donald Trump in November made clear his commitment to supporting the Saudi Crown Prince, essentially absolving him of involvement despite reported conclusions from the CIA that bin Salman directed the killing.
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The armed forces in Myanmar published a report absolving themselves of any wrongdoing in a campaign ostensibly directed at guerrillas from the Rohingya minority but which has been a cover for ethnic cleansing.
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The special affordances of E-age devices are precisely those of keeping three-dimensional suffering at a comforting distance while facilitating showy, self-absolving and, in the end, wholly feckless displays of outrage.
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The argument is that the revolution of democracy fundamentally changed the character of government, absolving it from the crimes of its admittedly checkered history and setting it on a new and just path.
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But amid this muddled, internecine conflict, one thing is clear: Conservative attempts to tear Francis down, while absolving his predecessors and blaming a global sexual crisis on gay priests, are sinister and abusive.
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Absolving political allies is a notorious if decades-old practice, and Bill Clinton was hardly sticking to procedure when he included friends, family and the well-connected in his last-minute clemency spree.
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At a time when the US should be asserting, not absolving, itself from leadership, the administration is sending worrying signals by appointing as its second-most important diplomat an individual with questionable credentials.
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A pardon of Mr. Libby would paradoxically put Mr. Trump in the position of absolving one of the chief architects of the Iraq war, which Mr. Trump has denounced as a catastrophic miscalculation.
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As the focus on both the tape and these payments intensifies, Trump's tweet seems to suggest that his main priority is shifting the scrutiny toward Cohen and absolving himself of any implications of wrongdoing.
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Erdogan, wearing a red tie, emerges from the car at the 1:13 mark: And the Turkish Embassy released a statement today, blaming the incident on Kurdish groups and absolving itself of any blame:
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"There are still civilians in Aleppo who need to be evacuated in harsh weather conditions and Russian statements that besieged Aleppo is empty is absolving itself from following up on the agreement," he added.
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While absolving Facebook from some criticism of human error, it made the product prone to mistakes where fake news stories appeared as Trends, such as one that said Fox News had fired Megyn Kelly.
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The president's power of clemency — which includes both officially absolving people with criminal convictions of their crimes (pardons) and reducing sentences of people currently incarcerated (commutations) — is established in the Constitution, and it's very broad.
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It is not so much that the Senate is absolving him of all charges of obstruction of Congress and abuse of power; the shock waves should emanate from how his Republican allies go about it.
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Some critics say that Mr. Trump's made-for-television outreach is proof that he is less interested in winning over black voters than in absolving a white voter base often accused of supporting racist rhetoric.
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What you need to know: The report largely refrains from making any grand, sweeping conclusions about Trump's conduct — especially on possible obstruction of justice, where Mueller's investigators made a point of not absolving him completely.
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Weld is warning Senate Republicans that absolving Trump of wrongdoing in the impeachment trial will backfire, and that instead, the GOP will pay a price at the ballot box for not removing him from office.
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The New York-based group buys up medical debt from collection agencies and hospitals for pennies on the dollar, identifying accounts that belong to cash-strapped patients all over the country and absolving their debts.
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That reasoning — absolving major financial institutions of their role in pushing mortgages to uncreditworthy borrowers, then packaging them off for profit — became a staple for industry-friendly policymakers attempting to fend off tough post-crisis reforms.
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"But I am too disgusted and outraged to think about them" is a convenient way of absolving one's self of responsibility, when it's on you to to realize situations are more complicated than good and evil.
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Whatever the reason, absolving people who commit war crimes does great harm to society in general, and the men and women who served honorably — as far more than "killing machines" — in the wars since the Sept.
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NUREMBERG, Germany — After the last of the regular artworks, furniture and stamps were sold on a recent Saturday, Kathrin Weidler read a short statement absolving Weidler's auction house of any moral responsibility for what came next.
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On July 22.2th the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) confirmed a plan to write off £21.9bn of child-maintenance debt, absolving non-paying parents and leaving their short-changed partners no recourse to court or compensation.
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"Absolving Mylan from a finding of wrongdoing has cleared the way for the company to pocket the money it embezzled from an American public in desperate need of lifesaving and affordable medications," Blumenthal said in a statement.
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There's a difference between not letting the haters get you down and absolving yourself of any responsibility when you write racist jokes To be very clear, Fey is allowed to create the art she wants to create.
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The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York announced the ruling Thursday, absolving Vimeo of any legal responsible for the actions of its users under the safe harbor provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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Trump in 2018 signed a bill that eased regulations on all but the largest banks, raising the threshold to $250 billion for banks considered too important to fail and absolving the smaller banks of certain stress tests.
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He can serve as the black face of "pull yourself up by your bootstraps," while absolving white conservatives of the need to acknowledge that black people were rarely allowed to pull themselves up in the first place.
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For those clients who underpaid taxes, the firm expects to pay the taxes owed, as well as any interest and penalties, directly to the I.R.S., absolving clients from any responsibility to resubmit returns or make further payments.
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They also seek to blot out the details of the corruption drenching Manafort's previous work in the country—and lay the groundwork for eventually absolving Manafort's of the crimes for which he was convicted in the United States.
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Trump&aposs act of clemency for Lorance, in addition to absolving two other US service members who were either convicted or were still facing trial of war crimes, has been met with gratitude from the president&aposs allies.
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The White House has threatened to veto the measure, and CIA Director John Brennan said on Sunday he expects 28 classified pages of a U.S. congressional report into the attacks to be published, absolving Saudi Arabia of any responsibility.
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He's stress-testing the government for ways to punish his rival Hillary Clinton and absolving Saudi Arabia for the way its titular leader dispatched with one of his critics in exchange for their participation in the US arms market.
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Trump's pardons — one of Arpaio absolving him of the crime of defying valid court orders and one of Scooter Libby for the crimes of obstructing justice and lying to federal investigators — smack not of mercy but of self-interest.
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The Economist: With Brexit and with climate change, if you say "We can adapt and turn this into an opportunity," it feels like you're rewarding and absolving the worst elements of humanity—like jingoism and the impulse to pollute—with impunity.
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Clinton meant absolving her of the pain caused by policies of her husband, former President Bill Clinton, including a 1994 crime bill that built more prisons, put 100,000 additional police officers on the streets and increased sentences for nonviolent drug offenses.
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Most importantly, at the urging of Representative Paul D. Ryan, the speaker of the House, and Representative Kevin McCarthy, his deputy, Mr. Trump endorsed her for re-election, in effect absolving her for her rejection of his campaign in 2016.
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Most presidents would have felt compelled to offer sympathy and compassion to the victims of the storm and their relatives, at the very least -- but Trump seemed more concerned about absolving himself and the federal government he runs of any blame.
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Pam spoke at a conference in Vegas Monday to discuss the controversial subject, and she reinforced her points about apps like Uber and Lyft absolving themselves of responsibility for both their customers and employees ... or "independent contractors" as they'd call them.
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That inquiry ended abruptly last month when the Republicans on the panel issued their own report, absolving the Trump campaign of aiding Russia's election meddling and describing contacts between Trump associates and Russian officials or their intermediaries merely as ill-advised meetings.
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Then in April, Plott published a plushy profile of Ivanka Trump, sourced by an off-the-record chat with the first daughter, which amounted to a puff piece absolving her of almost all responsibility for choosing to work in her father's administration.
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A recent film, Range 15, takes this value system to an extreme: Five military buddies — each outfitted with absurd amounts of ammo and patriotic paraphernalia — proceed to "take names and kick ass" for 92 minutes, absolving America of its foreign, unfamiliar zombie threat.
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In absolving Brown of any potential guilt by claiming that since he's a famous and attractive singer he can, " literally pick like a flower from a garden of bad bitches who wanna fuck," he's using the same arguments that R. Kelly's defenders employed for decades.
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On Friday, American Humane (not to be confused with the Humane Society), the group responsible for monitoring the treatment of animals on the set of the film, released a statement effectively absolving the filmmakers of what many had thought was abusive treatment of dogs on set.
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Kamala Harris said Sunday that she applauds former Vice President Joe Biden's apology on his comments about his ability to be civil and work with segregationist senators in the 1970s, but stopped short of absolving him of all of his past remarks on issues of race.
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By seamlessly conflating the terms "collusion" and "conspiracy," and absolving President Trump of both, Mr. Barr revealed that the Russian information warfare technique of "reflexive control" has officially entered American public discourse — and threatens, with his recent allegations of campaign "spying," to stay there for a while.
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It's easy to imagine a scenario in which large groups of displaced people, or minorities in a country that would sooner see them gone, are forced to take a foreign nationality under duress and are then sent away, absolving their home country of any legal responsibility.
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While Trump appeared to believe that the rough transcript of his July 25 call with Ukraine's President was absolving -- and released it -- it actually appeared to show a quid pro quo in which he asked for investigations into 2016 Democrats and Joe Biden in return for military aid.
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For the first two years of the Trump presidency, when Republicans controlled the House, the Intelligence Committee was primarily consumed with the tricky task of appearing to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election while at the same time absolving Trump of participating in — or benefiting from — that interference.
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But it also was not the be-all and end-all that it was eventually characterized as in subsequent accounts of the crisis, which also had the self-serving effect of absolving the officials of any blame for what, with benefit of hindsight, seems a deeply flawed judgment call.
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The school announced its findings Tuesday night, absolving the football staff and players and pinning the blame solely on Elrod — a player in the 1990s and an assistant coach under Jim Grobe who went into broadcasting when he was not retained during the transition to Clawson after the 2013 season.
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But Democrats wanted to make Republicans — especially those facing voters in November — cringe in defending the conduct of the president and force them to go on the record absolving Mr. Trump despite compelling evidence from the House that he had abused his power and sought to hide his actions from Congress.
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He was critical of "structural racism" as a category of social analysis, and I'll put the same question I asked him to you: How can we talk about the concrete effects of these historical and material factors without absolving African Americans — or anyone else, for that matter — of their agency?
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Specifically, I worry that the language being used at the highest levels of this debate promotes a conception of autonomous weapons that conflates potential abuses of the technology with features of the technology itself and possesses the danger of absolving programmers and military implementers of moral responsibility where such responsibility is needed most.
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But the question-and-answer session with reporters appeared aimed as much at absolving the president of blame for his divisive messaging and at lashing out at news organizations as it was at expressing outrage and grief over a shooting that claimed the lives of 11 congregants gathered at their synagogue to observe Shabbat.
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Instead of calling on both sides to exercise restraint and avoid further casualties, the Trump administration is outright echoing the most extreme far-right Israeli government talking points that all of this is Hamas's fault and is absolving the Israeli government of any responsibility whatsoever for the massive number of dead and injured Palestinians.
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Coates is one of the most important writers on race in America today, but that also makes him one of the only writers on race whose work many white Americans have read — and correspondingly, for many white readers, there's a sense that by reading Coates, you are absolving yourself of complicity in America's racism.
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On December 11, the New York Times reported that Weinstein and his now-bankrupt film studio, The Weinstein Company, had reportedly reached a $25 million civil settlement deal that would reportedly bring to an end nearly every legal action being brought against Weinstein by his accusers, all while legally absolving him from publicly or privately admitting to any wrongdoing.
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That's not an argument for absolving her of responsibility — quite the opposite; it goes to show how important it is that she try to change this climate — but rather a reminder that problems such as ethnic cleansing tend to go much deeper than the sorts of language a political leader uses in her interviews with the BBC.
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Consciously or not, the President appears to see the pardon power as a personal weapon for him to use in potentially achieving four things in the special counsel investigation: Absolving himself of possible crimes Even if the President doesn't try to pardon himself, the pardons he has granted or may grant to others could be viewed as self-pardons by proxy.
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Trump's rejection of the House Intelligence Committee's report on ZTE, when paired with his long standing embrace of that same committee's report absolving his campaign of colluding with the Russian government—even in the face of the Senate Intelligence Committee's conclusion to the contrary—makes clear that at the very least that there is no intellectual coherence to the president's words and deeds.
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Asked by Axios' Jonathan Swan to name the thing Trump will be known for in 50 or 100 years, he replied, in part: "What this President did is he represented an outsider who came in, brought in a ton of people who never would've been in Washington before who were not 'qualified' by conventional standards," Kushner said, thus absolving himself of his own pretender status.
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The details of the reports were disturbing — priests abusing young men in hospital rooms, men coming forward about having been abused 15 times only to be told "only 15 times?" when they'd reported the incidents to religious higher-ups, young women impregnated by priests and then forced to have abortions, bishops absolving these men of their sins, even expressing sympathy for them — sympathy for abusers, for rapists.
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Trump's formula So far, it appears Trump's formula for winning against China amounts to excessive praise and, at least publicly, absolving China of blame for its role in crafting policies that have disadvantaged the US. Trump also avoided putting his host in an uncomfortable position, making none of the demands his past three predecessors have made that Xi take questions alongside him from independent journalists.
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But Biden's friendship years ago with Thurmond — a symbol of the kind of '90s bipartisan politics, and the civility and forgiveness Biden espouses — is an especially precarious piece of political history in an era in which Democrats are increasingly reliant on a young, impatient bloc of black voters native to the Black Lives Matter movement to whom Biden's absolving portrayal of Thurmond would likely qualify as a betrayal.
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This idea is popular in some quarters of the right because it's understood as somehow absolving them of blame for Trump, but it's just another way of saying that Obama's presidency — and the broader demographic and cultural changes it both revealed and represented — activated ugly sentiments in the Republican Party, those fears and resentments were amplified by conservative media, and Republican voters turned to the candidate who championed those sentiments most clearly.
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A government watchdog is absolving former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE of any wrongdoing after critics questioned his involvement in an advertisement for beef.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "Giuliani Asserts Trump Refunded Payment to Star" (front page, May 3): So, Rudolph W. Giuliani says the $130,000 "hush money" payment that Michael Cohen made to a pornographic film actress was eventually paid by Donald Trump, who had previously declared that he knew nothing about any payment or where the money came from, thereby absolving Michael Cohen of any Trump campaign finance law violation, but now opening the possibility that Mr. Trump may have violated campaign finance laws.
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A top aide to former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE wrote a memo earlier this year that appeared to be aimed at absolving Pruitt of blame over a controversial raise given to the aide.
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WATCHDOG FINDS Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE DIDN'T BREAK LAW BY APPEARING IN BEEF AD: A government watchdog is absolving former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Scott Pruitt of any wrongdoing after critics questioned his involvement in an advertisement for beef.
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