| At the same time, the right to free speech does not absolve us from our duty to behave responsibly. |
| To reject giving a child a jab in favour of chancing it with the disease is to absolve oneself of responsibility. |
| On Good Friday, continental Europeans commemorate that Christ was crucified and died to absolve our sins and give us eternal salvation. |
| The capacity of history to absolve political actors is a cynical and immoral doctrine. |
| But the possibility that apathy may subvert anarchy does not absolve its inciters from responsibility. |
| What lay chaplains cannot do is say Mass, anoint the sick, and absolve sin after confession. |
