For one thing, the litigation and investigations will be a new expensive cost burden to the company for the next seveal years even if News Corp. were ultimately proved to be blameless.

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Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara looked pleased to have won the toss as he elected to allow his batsmen to take first use of what transpired to be a blameless wicket at the Beausejour Stadium.

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She said this could be explained through the "just-world hypothesis, " the belief that people think the world should be good -- and when it is not, especially when a blameless and vulnerable person suffers as a result, someone needs to be punished.

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Instructor Kelly Marcus tells them they can keep a conversation from getting too heated by using the "blameless apology"--to be sorry a customer's calling card was rejected rather than accuse him of not having paid his bills.

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Labour is far from blameless, but it is the Tories who are on course to be the next government.

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To be sure, the Islamic-minded Welfare Party, led by Necmettin Erbakan, is not wholly blameless.

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