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

Indifference or neglect imputable to a corrupt intention are sufficient.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various

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

For many of the pedagogical errors which we have pointed out were seen to be imputable, not to the choice of an unsuitable content of education, but to the criterion adopted in treating this content.

From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni