(1) Absolution: The speaker says the act was not what was understood, and that it did not occur as charged anyway. … His repeated denials should be viewed as an absolutive strategy in which the facts themselves are disputed, …

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The evidence says that enormous numbers of children who live in households in high-crime neighborhoods are experiencing the psychological equivalent of battlefield conditions.…Studies show that many children who live under these conditions, 30 percent or more, are developing post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, similar to what we used to call “shell shock” in soldiers returning from war.

[…] the crew were set to replacing and splicing the rigging and fishing the spars.