The CIA, by contrast, has a culture of impunity-blame is Shared and institutionalized.
The high court had also ruled in Brown v. Board of Education against school segregation but schools and states had "ignored it with impunity, " Obama recalled.
"Sonia" reportedly recalled another occasion when Mexican Army troops stopped a trailer carrying over 300 kilograms of cocaine, but then let it go because it belonged to an operator who had impunity.
Both have often acted with impunity; quite possibly, neither did it.
I was an unknown foreigner, and could have easily evaded payment with impunity, yet no London shopkeeper ever mistrusted me.
A chronicler relates that the true Burlador died assassinated by Fransciscans who wanted "to put an end to the excesses and blasphemies of Don Juan, whose birth assured him impunity."
"In the real world, the laws go unenforced and impunity is the norm, " she said.
Mr Godoy Toscano's desafuero may not mark an end to impunity in Mexican politics, but it does symbolically put every miscreant politician in the country on notice.
The days of impunity seem to be over.
"I want to be perfectly clear," Mr. Ban said. "This tribunal is independent, with a clear mandate from the Security Council to uncover the truth and end impunity.
If extradition or deportation is not possible, trials on the spot are the only alternative to impunity.
This led people to conclude that they could misbehave with impunity.
She said that armed gangs who carry out planned killings with impunity operate with the backing of the city's main political parties.
Prejudice and oppression now occurs with impunity.
This is a culture of impunity.