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Signal aspects are designed to incorporate some degree of fault tolerance.

The compensation payable bears no relation to the degree of fault.

In comparative negligence, the victim's damages are reduced according to the degree of fault.

It's a question of the degree of fault.

This technology also provides a higher degree of fault tolerance because a failure on one port may just mean a slow-down rather than a dropout.

The mens rea involves the different states of mind which demonstrate the relationship between degree of fault and liability.

Both the type of sentence imposed, and its severity, is in large part determined by the degree of fault shown by the defendant.

Although the damages must correspond to the degree of fault, the comparative negligence standard does not bar a jury from granting a large punitive award.

Because the punishment fell by lot, all soldiers in the group were eligible for execution, regardless of the individual degree of fault, or rank and distinction.

The external assessors should be financially liable only to the shareholders and only for damages that reflect the assessors' degree of fault.

Instead, Mr. Verniero recommended apportioned damage awards that would correspond to a defendant's degree of fault.

There's also the incorporation of built-in test (BITE) provides a high degree of fault isolation and detection.

"This system drags into it all tenants who have been named in housing court proceedings, regardless of whether there's any degree of fault on their part," he said.

By studying the aftereffects of modern earthquakes, geologists have determined that the degree of fault slippage is related to the severity of the quake.

By utilizing "hybrid cloud" architecture, companies and individuals are able to obtain degrees of fault tolerance combined with locally immediate usability without dependency on internet connectivity.

The introduction of Cloud computing allows server storage and other resources to be shared in a pool and provides servers with a higher degree of fault tolerance.

A second approach would be to attempt to rank the offences by reference to the degree of harm caused and the degree of fault in the person causing it.

Maritime Law divided the loss, at first equally, but now, under the Maritime Conventions Acts 1911, in proportion, as far as possible, to the degree of fault.

But, is the test of culpability based on purely a subjective measure of what is in a person's mind, or does a court measure the degree of fault by using objective tools?

This is why some people are opposed to the use of minimum and mandatory sentences, as they break the relationship between the degree of fault present in the offence committed and the sentence imposed.

An Israeli officer subsequently did discuss these cases with McGreal and in the end conceded that some degree of fault existed in most of these cases of children being shot.

Another change would end the current law that allows plaintiffs in negligence suits to recover the full amount of a damage award from any defendant in position to pay, regardless of the defendant's degree of fault.

Finally the partial defences to murder, such as loss of self-control (previously provocation), diminished responsibility and suicide pact demonstrate a lesser degree of fault, resulting in conviction for the lesser offence of manslaughter.

If the dialogue has somehow broken down (learning has not occurred), should not any worthwhile investigation look in both directions, evaluating not only the degree of fault in the client, but also the degree of contributory imperfection on the part of the professional?

One of the more disputed proposals in the legislation is the abolition of "joint and several" liability - the rule in many states that each defendant in a lawsuit is liable for the entire amount of the damages, no matter what the defendant's degree of fault.

But in general the degrees of guilt will be such as we have described them.

"There is some degree of guilt" about abandoning Israel, he said.

There were, I considered, amongst my guests, varying degrees of guilt.

But he feels a degree of guilt and regret about his lifelong evolution.

Intention, of course, often makes a difference to the degrees of guilt experienced.

We also considered the degree of guilt.

Lawyers had abolished the simple concept of right and wrong, turning it into degrees of guilt.

Amid sound concerns about the safety of tall buildings, a degree of guilt hung in the air.

And there were relative degrees of guilt.

I'd expected a degree of guilt, of course.

But along with the great wealth amassed during the Gilded Age came a degree of guilt.

And I'm certainly committed to the principle of accepting your innocence until such time as any degree of guilt might be established.

Obviously there's some degree of guilt.

It would also require that in most cases defendants be liable only for damages in proportion to their degree of guilt.

And unfortunately, I have neither the time nor the stomach to determine the precise degree of guilt of every one of you.

No, actually, I'd have to Mind-See them, to determine the degrees of guilt.

It may be that a degree of guilt on his own part rendered more extreme the reproaches he loosed upon the tumbler.

Every time he lost someone, even if they died because of a boneheaded blunder on their part, he felt a certain degree of guilt.

However Hammadi's life sentence included a provision that due to an exceptional grave degree of guilt the first parole review was to be later.

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Still, "Degree of Guilt" finally lacks the elegant sense of inevitability that good storytelling should deliver.

But the playwright soon finds that matters are more complicated - that there are degrees of guilt and tyranny.

Whoever wants to measure degrees of guilt, whoever says it wasn't really like that, or not that bad, is trying to defend the indefensible.

In the absence of rules, it falls to each politician to invent guidelines for accepting or returning contributions and to determine degrees of guilt.

"I feel a degree of guilt because we're unexplained," Mr. Plaut said of their infertility.