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How to use the word guilty in a Sentence?

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It was played to manipulate you into confusing your dislike for a politician with whether these men are guilty of a crime, whatever the former president’s personal crimes are, you have seen no evidence that Mr. Trump conspired with Ethan Nordean from Seattle.

Nicholas Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you work as a consultant in any foreign country… and you undertake consulting work that may relate to Australia’s foreign influences or national security… you can be guilty of foreign interference.

Bernard Collaery

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Guilty as charged, the role of the general manager lends itself to thinking about every single thing you can do to squeeze out one more win for your team… You don’t have time to sit back and think about the aesthetic value of the game or even the entertainment value of the game.

Theo Epstein

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When it comes to food, we all have our guilty pleasures — for my son, it’s chocolate and churros.

Eva Longoria

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s wrong to just identify somebody who is a young kid going to school and saying they’re guilty of things they had nothing to do with.

Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The one thing you can clearly take away from this was, he had been lying to a lot of people that he loved for a long time, and so he had obviously gotten to be pretty good at it, if he went in there and they believed him, then he would have likely been found not guilty. But once they decide that he’s willing to put himself out there and they don’t believe him, that’s kind of a tough hill to get over.

Bill Nettles

Found on CNN
1 year ago

After an exhaustive investigation, there is only one person who had the motive, who had the means, who had the opportunity to commit these crimes, and also whose guilty conduct after these crimes betrays him, this defendant is the one person who was living a lie, the defendant is the person on which a storm was descending, and the defendant was a person where his own storm would actually mean consequences for Maggie and Paul and consequences for those who trusted him.

Prosecutor Creighton Waters

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Even though it’s not my doing, I still feel guilty that he’s going through this because of me, because of my status.

Raul Rodriguez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At least I get a little bit of relief, knowing what I ’m doing matters, because the more I can fundraise here, the more it helps out there, but I am in constant stress that I ’m not doing enough and I need to keep going. When I sleep, I feel guilty. I need to be awake every second. I need to be working. I want to get more updates. I feel like I ’m operating here, but my mind and soul are there.

Abdulrahman Al-Dahhan Mourning

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was the culture that was just as guilty for killing Terry Nichols as those officers.

Ben Crump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When insanity is raised as a defense, the jury can return a verdict of guilty, not guilty, not guilty by reason of insanity, or guilty but mentally ill.

Kyle Dugger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And it was not until the year 2017 that the guilty verdicts were overturned – including the one against me.

Klaus Schirdewahn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think that weighed really heavy on her soul. I think she felt really guilty. I think that really broke her. Over Thanksgiving, she had priests coming, trying to have an exorcism of the house and having prayer services, he’s a strong person, athletic. This has been tough. It’s going to be about three or four more months before he’s really back to normal.

Alexandra Pelosi

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

In this country you’re innocent until proven guilty, there have been members who issues have come up (for) in the past. They were allowed to be on their committees, be sat on committees. And then the legal process takes hold and we make adjustments. So that’s probably what’s going to happen.

Byron Donalds

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Ezra Miller pled guilty this morning to a misdemeanor unlawful trespass in Vermont Superior Court and accepted the conditions imposed by the court, ezra would like to thank the court and the community for their trust and patience throughout this process and would once again like to acknowledge the love and support they have received from their family and friends, who continue to be a vital presence in their ongoing mental health.

Lisa Shelkrot

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That House Democrats' final act in the majority was to strike one last blow in their relentless war against Donald Trump — in the process running roughshod over the very norms and institutions they so claim to cherish — marks a fitting end to their progressive rule, and tells you all you need to know about their priorities and posture as they lose their grip on power, this was of a piece with the Soviet show trial-style January 6th Committee that recently reached its unceremonious conclusion, the primary purpose of which was never to unearth truth or hold people to account, but to politically persecute political foes declared guilty at the outset while the Biden Justice Department does the Democrats' legal bidding in criminalizing its political opponents.

Benjamin Weingarten

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The committee operates with the same kind of bias present at the Salem witch trials, everyone is guilty and must demonstrate their innocence.

Andy Biggs

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Today was a huge step toward justice. We are grateful for the diligence and dedication of the FBI and the DOJ as they investigated what led to Breonna's murder and what transpired afterwards. The justice that Breonna received today would not have been possible without the efforts of Attorney General Merrick Garland or Assistant AG for Civil Rights Kristen Clarke, we hope this announcement of a guilty plea sends a message to all other involved officers that it is time to stop covering up and time to accept responsibility for their roles in causing the death of an innocent, beautiful young Black woman.

Ben CrumpReplayMore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Then fine, let's pick a trial date, i'm never going to force someone to plead guilty who doesn't think they're guilty. Never.

Emmet Sullivan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I wish it was Tony Earls who was found guilty, but I know that the decision is final with the grand jury, i pray that we can find this person and bring him to justice, because Arlene didn't want to die. She didn't want to die on a Monday night, on her way to dinner.

Armando Alvarez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re all guilty of it. I was definitely guilty of it. I was always on my phone, picking it up at every ding.

Erica Edwards

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We’re all driving around weapons and we’re all driving distractedly, we’re all guilty of it. I was definitely guilty of it. I was always on my phone, picking it up at every ding.

Erica Edwards

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I've seen this a million times, where alcoholic parents then feel guilty because they were drinking and carrying on and fighting and everything while raising the kid, and their guilt causes them to be enablers, and what that all means with him is, I don’t know everything because all the information isn’t out there, but that could create a situation where the father would be enabling him by helping him purchase the rifle.

John Kelly

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We're going to find this person that's guilty of this horrific crime, we're going to find him and bring him to justice.

Eric Adams

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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