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

It may be feared that his Sermons were less popular from another cause, imputable more to the congregation than to the pastor.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 2 by Swift, Jonathan

The expedition to Portugal in which he commanded has been already related, and its ill-success was certainly imputable to no want of courage or conduct on his part.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Aikin, Lucy

Randolph protested that the blame was imputable solely to himself.

From Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy