However, this absolves responsibility for said incidents from the harassers, men, and places it upon the victims, women.

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And the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program uses tax money to pay compensation awards and absolves the drug companies of financial responsibility.

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Mr Rogan by no means absolves Arabs of responsibility for their travails.

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The brazen lousiness of a picture like this absolves you, for a few hours, of the belief that anything matters in movies but sensation.

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But that by no means absolves the developing world from responsibility.

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But the settlement absolves broadcasters of past payola misdeeds.

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In contrast, modern free market theory largely absolves business leaders from these considerations, under the assumption that self-interested decisions, guided by perfect markets, will lead to the greatest good for the greatest number.

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Humble cooperation absolves all compliance sins, I suppose.

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Brotman is so convinced that long-term care insurance is critical for retirement planning that he asks clients who turn it down to sign a waiver that absolves his firm from fiduciary responsibility for the decision.

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