imputable

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When a prosecutor offers him a chance to provide extenuating circumstances for his crimes—“Can you affirm that your acts are imputable to external influences of some kind ”—Sylvain is unable to follow the question:

From The New Yorker • May 1, 2017

"What the state of Texas has done in this case is imputable in law to the US and engages the United States' international responsibility," she said.

From BBC • Jul. 8, 2011

This invitation is imputable to the late news from England, and the grant of six millions by France was probably accelerated by it.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII by Sparks, Jared

The competitive system makes it economic, and of all the crimes imputable to the competitive system, this is the greatest, for it directly perverts not only the human body, but the human soul.

From Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Kelly, Edmond

This was no other than Thomas Craig, to whose malignity and cunning all her misfortunes were imputable.

From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden