Sentences with phrase «crime against the state»

On 18th January 2012 the untruths and contradictions deepened when Ghanaweb reported that Myjoyonline had stated that: «President Mills is reported to have asked Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Martin Amidu to provide evidence to back his claim of crimes against the state by hard core criminals holding party cards or leave office.»

Nixon tries to follow a noble — or so we were to believe — tradition of committing crimes against the state in order to save the state.

«We suspect strongly that since BSS is peopled by outlaws, they are responsible for the spate of assassinations of kinsmen opposed to their fluid and dubious idea of a Biafran state; its members are the masterminds of kidnappings / abductions for ransom; armed robbery; extortion of hapless people at gunpoint and other sundry acts of lawlessness and crimes against the state in Southeastern Nigeria.

North Korea's supreme court sentenced American student Otto Warmbier to 15 years of hard labour for crimes against the state, China's Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday.

In his own legal code promulgated at Melfi in 1231, Frederick followed the legal precedents of the era, including those of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215, in condemning heresy, sacrilege, treason, usury, and counterfeiting (in that order) as structural crimes against the state.

Topping the list is This is Not a Film, Iranian director Jafar Panahi's intimate and disarmingly hilarious portrait of his house arrest by Iranian authorities, who prosecuted him for vaguely defined crimes against the state.

The Supreme Court noted that the public has an interest in seeing the court admit the blood samples as evidence because drunk driving is a severe crime against the state.

They were caught committing crimes against the state.

The historical sense is that it basically means, kind of, serious political crimes, sort of crimes against the state, crimes that involve abuse of office, abuse of power, abuse of trust.

SRG maintained that BSS members are the «masterminds of kidnappings / abductions for ransom; armed robbery; extortion of hapless people at gunpoint and other sundry acts of lawlessness and crimes against the state in Southeastern Nigeria.»

Except for crimes against the state and against institutions, people are always involved, and the most heinous crimes are always the most personal.

Heresy is not a crime against the state.

And the probability that a criminal who had committed crimes against the state would be allowed a decent burial much less actually removed from the cross.

As we have seen in the case of Frederick II, the reasons that kings and emperors, even those at war with the papacy, listed heresy first among the crimes against the state were several and profound.

NII LANTEY IS REVEALING THAT TH NDC HAS PERSONAL INTEREST AND DO NOT HAVE THE INTEREST OF GHANA AT HEART OTHERWISE, HOW CAN YOU SAY YOU WOULD FREE THOSE THAT HAVE COMMITTED ANY FORM OF CRIME AGAINST THE STATE?

«Stand up straight and against the wall» he ordered, a desk lamp the only source of light, as he prowled the room waiting to accuse someone of a crime against the state.

Since battery and assault are considered both crimes against the state and civil offenses, as explained by FindLaw, assault victims may recover from losses in civil court with the help of Chicago injury attorneys.