Sentences with phrase «crimes punishable»

White collar crimes punishable by law include misappropriations as noted above, yet very few lawyers who are disbarred for money embezzlement are also criminally charged.

For example, it might be that charges punishable by fines are different from crimes punishable by incarceration and as you transition from one type to the other the seriousness jumps.

In 1823, the Judgement of Death Act caused a significant drop in the number of crimes punishable by death.

The earliest laws in the New World included witchcraft as one of the crimes punishable by death.

People who are underage (under 18 for rifles and shotguns, and under 21 for other guns), someone convicted or indicted for a crime punishable by imprisonment of more than one year, fugitives from justice, the severely mentally ill, unlawful users of controlled substances, those convicted of domestic violence, and undocumented immigrants are among some of the categories of people barred from buying a firearm by federal law.

The molestation of children and teenagers by adults has got to be made a crime punishable by mandatory execution or else it will never stop.

was convicted in a Pakistani court earlier this month of breaking the country's controversial blasphemy law, a crime punishable with death or life imprisonment, according to Pakistan's penal code.

Below human civility and and a crime punishable by American law.

Conversion of a Muslim to another religion is considered apostasy [6], a crime punishable by death (Capital punishment in Saudi Arabia) if the accused does not recant [7].

Those Muslims who disown or even criticize their faith publicly are likely to be accused of apostasy, a crime punishable by death under Islamic law - a penalty enforced by a number of Islamic states, including Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan.

Wenger has proven himself not be of good coaching anymore, he has lost it, outdated tactics, always scared of making substitution in big games, he is just too predictive for me, he should leave, he can keep winning the fa cup and be rest assured it will decieve some fans who are of low ambition like him but 10 yrs no epl is a crime punishable by sacking,

Practicing such therapy on minors would be a misdemeanor crime punishable by a fine of up to $ 1,000 or one year in jail.

«The fact that MPs have a final say in whether a recall petition is triggered, unless an MP commits a crime punishable with a prison sentence, is certainly not what the Tory or Lib Dem manifestos promised,» shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan commented.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Murdering a child under the age of 12 would become a first - degree murder in New York, a crime punishable by death, at least in theory, under a bill introduced Monday by state Sen. John DeFrancisco.

The law makes conversion therapy a misdemeanor crime punishable by a fine of up to $ 1,000 or one year in jail.

«As young LGBT elected officials of color, the only two in New York State, we are horrified by Councilmember Cabrera's tribute to the Ugandan government, which has made homosexuality a capital crime punishable by lifetime imprisonment, and until recently, death,» their statement read.

In Japan, that's not «aggressive dating» — that's forcible indecency (kyōsei waisetsu), a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

While a large part of the world still considers homosexuality a crime punishable by sentences as severe as death, Great Britain during the 1980s was divided, with macho organizations like coal miners unmistakably in the camp of homophobes.

A Sinner in Mecca (Unrated) Parvez Sharma wrote, directed and stars in this skeletons - in - the - closet documentary as a gay Muslim secretly making a Hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, a country where homosexuality is a crime punishable by death.

He brings with him the maniacal Lord Kira (Tadanobu Asano), who, along with a beautiful witch (Rinko Kikuchi), concoct a scheme to trick Asano into attacking an unarmed Kira, a crime punishable by execution or a more honorable ritual suicide called seppuku.

I / We fully understand that it is a Federal crime punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, to knowingly make any false statements when applying for this mortgage, as applicable under the provisions of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1014.

It's major fraud, a federal crime punishable by up to 30 years in jail and as much as $ 1 million in fines.

Adding to what others have said, if the mortgage for the new house is backed by the federal government (e.g., through FHA or is to be sold to Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac) you would be violating 18 USC § 1001, which makes making intentionally false statements to any agent or branch of the federal government a crime punishable by up to 5 years» imprisonment.

All cats, including black cats, were treated as royalty and to kill one was a crime punishable by death.

Stealing a Pekingese dog was considered a crime punishable by death.

Lowering headcount by enacting legislation that makes spaying and neutering of all cats and dogs in NYC mandatory, and that makes backyard breeding a crime punishable by huge fines and removal of all animals from a persons home forever — that is what lowers headcount.

Conspiracy is a crime punishable by up to five years in Federal prison, and fines of up to $ 250,000.

is, for every such offense, guilty of a crime punishable as a misdemeanor or as a felony.....

Any theft or harm brought to one of these dogs was considered a crime punishable by death.

In 2013 a geological study found that erosion was inevitable and the government made it illegal for visitors to walk on it — a crime punishable by a fine of $ 1,500 (# 1,233).

We should make it a felony crime punishable by life imprisonment and forfeiture of all wealth and assets, no parole, and retroactive to the beginning of this country, for the introduction of every destructive non-native species introduced either deliberately, or accidently.

The act defines a violent felony as: «any crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year... that — «(i) has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of another; or (ii) is burglary, arson, or extortion, involves use of explosives, or otherwise involves conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another.»

People didn't like barratry, so many states made it a misdemeanor crime punishable by fine or imprisonment and, when the perpetrator is an attorney, possible disbarment.

This is common law theft (and probably meets whatever statute definition is applied) and is a crime punishable by the state.

Violation of a protection order is a crime punishable by fines and imprisonment.

Harassing or attempting to influence a witness is a crime punishable by up to 10 years in jail.

-LSB-...] Espionage generally is a crime punishable by jail — but in the cyber world couldn't intensive spying be an enabler of physical combat?

Please make Parental Alienation a crime punishable by law.

We are a family being held from loving our 2 boys???? Please make this a crime punishable by loss of costodial rights.

Parental alienation should be a crime punishable by law.

Our family has been destroyed by parental alienation and for my daughter and countless other families enduring the same heart ache and abuse, I am asking and praying for the effective and immediate change we need to end this nightmare and make this a crime punishable by law.

Not exact matches

Generally, the military is required to report felony - equivalent court - martial convictions for crimes that are punishable by more than one year in prison, and any convictions for domestic violence.

Once the Order had been enacted, owning gold became a federal crime, punishable by ten years in federal prison and a $ 10,000 fine; no individual, partnership, association, organization, or corporation could possess monetary gold, in any form, for any reason.

We atheists should all remember that in almost every country where Muslims are a majority, free thought and changing religions is a crime that is often punishable by death.

Which is not surprising since thought crime, apostasy or even coveting, is punishable by death in the scriptures.

You do it in the hopes that the punishment (commensurate with the nature / magnitude of crime itself) will prevent a repeat of the punishable behavior.

If you mean striking with a club, then yes that would be a hate crime and punishable.

In the case of abortion there is a possible separation between criminal and victim, something punishable crime presupposes, which is not the case with suicide.

That is a crime that can be punishable by death in the country, which is known for widespread disregard for religious freedoms.

And finally, even thinking that our obedience has any merit is a punishable thought crime.