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Senior bank managers and regulators have a common interest in developing a more effective system – one that punishes the guilty and creates the right incentives for the future.
He concluded that “not only is there no scientific evidence that we need to drink that much, but the recommendation could be harmful, both in precipitating potentially dangerous hyponatremia and exposure to pollutants and also in making many people feel guilty for not drinking enough.”
A foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, George Papadopoulos, was also indicted for lying to the FBI about meetings with individuals closely associated with the Russian government during the campaign, though he has already pleaded guilty and has been cooperating with investigators since the summer.
The Committee initially found Lomborg guilty of much the same error that he had alleged of the ecologists.
Strictly speaking, they are guilty more of confusing the potential and the actual than the true and the false.
This is a man who, according to his first wife, long kept a collection of Hitler’s speeches on his bedside table, and who blithely calls blacks “lazy,” derides Mexicans as “rapists,” and judges Muslims collectively guilty for Islamist terrorism.
You will know you have succeeded when the United States’ Treasury Secretary comes knocking on your door saying that you are guilty of manipulating your currency.
Because no one pled guilty for the suffering that followed the crisis, the guilt has become collective.
In other words, they are guilty of indifference.
Dawkins is “deeply shocked” to discover that a person who committed an illegal act may be found not guilty.
A person may have carried out an act, but quite rightly be found “not guilty” – just as he may be found “guilty,” even though he did nothing.
If the state cannot prove it beyond a reasonable doubt, the accused is “not guilty” – regardless of whether he or she really did commit the act.
But while this would result in more guilty verdicts for those who have committed crimes, it would also cause more innocent people to be found guilty.
Punishing the guilty, rather than shaping the way history would be written, was always the clear objective of the trial.
Generals Atanase Stanculescu and Mihai Chitac were found guilty of ordering the killings of dozens of innocent people in Timisoara in 1989.
Furthermore, truth commissions can consider the responsibility of those who, though not criminally guilty, may have helped create the conditions that contributed to terrible crimes.
Major central banks’ fixation on inflation betrays a guilty conscience for serially falling short of their targets.
Physicians may feel guilty and fear litigation, drug companies worry about the threat to corporate profits and regulatory agencies must face the question: “Why was the drug approved in the first place?”
The apparent explanation is that parents treated the fines as fees, and did not feel guilty about paying them.
Like most Western women, I do it regularly, and it is a guilty pleasure every time.
Trump, like Nixon, may well be guilty of grave impeachable offenses – even graver offenses than Nixon’s.
Obama’s presumptive Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, has promised to declare China guilty of currency manipulation the day he takes office.
NATO Expansion: Too Much, Too EarlyPARIS: Democracies are often guilty of doing "too little, too late" in the face of new challenges.
But guilty communists were not punished, and virtuous Solidarity activists were not rewarded.
American prosecutors in the Enron case have made important progress lately, with some important crooks, like Andrew Fastow, offering both guilty pleas and a willingness to testify against their former colleagues.
But, as the accompanying amendment to grant immunity from prosecution to sitting heads of state and senior officials clearly demonstrates, it is actually a transparent effort to let guilty parties off scot-free.
But that does not necessarily mean that depreciators are guilty of violating any agreements or norms, especially if they have merely maintained a pre-existing exchange-rate regime.
Whatever US courts say about it, abducting people all over the world, locking them up for years without establishing that they are guilty of anything, and subjecting them to harsh and abusive treatment is a flagrant violation of international law.
Before I chose to protest to the editor who sacked me a week ago, I was guilty of complicity too.
Of course, Israel has been guilty of both bad policies and political sins.
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