Voorbeelden van absolving

• The paradox, of course, is that the act prerequisite for absolving sins is, in fact, the means of disseminating it.

• He is made responsible for both morally absolving and socially hiding this transgression by surrendering his own sexuality to perpetuate the religious and national system that benefited his parents.

• The graces recorded in them illustrate the daily business of the penitentiary, enabling clerics to obtain advancement, absolving penitents and granting small favours to laity and clergy alike.

• Husbands whose wives did not prove their allegations could have a decreet absolving them extracted, but they rarely did, and therefore unsuccessful case are usually found only in process papers.

• This would not have meant absolving people of responsibility, but offering a more accurate analysis of the socio-political situation for the benefits of an empowering education.

• I do not condone the use of the threat of violence as a means of absolving an absent parent from his responsibilities to his children.

• Protecting consumers does not mean absolving people of responsibility for their investment decisions.

• The two sections deal with absolving from the regulated rent sector and controlled rents houses that are let for holiday purposes.

• I am not absolving my party from blame in this matter.

• By saying that forecasting is the responsibility of private companies, he is absolving himself of any responsibility whatsoever for future energy policy.

• If the ratepayers felt that the big rent increases were absolving them from big rate increases, they might be rather happier about the situation.

• It is a way of absolving oneself of responsibility for what goes wrong.

• Unscrupulous landlords have used the absolving provisions for their own devious purposes.

• Absolving them from payment will have the opposite effect.

• There is no question of absolving those bodies from the duty to ensure compliance with technical building regulations.