Sentences with phrase «defined by the crime»

The horror of the Inferno is the way the damned have become defined by their crimes — their punishments are the revelation of what souls do to themselves in the absence of grace.

There's little that's human about such a character, who becomes entirely defined by the crime perpetrated against her.

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The main take - away from all the above is this: Hamilton, the likely author of # 65, and Madison and Jay also, to the extent this particular paper was run by them in advance (scholars think such a preview was done sometimes, but not generally), did not understood impeachment for «high crimes and misdemeanors» as referring to an easily defined category.

The first community to define an act as a crime set a precedent, making it possible that virtuous deeds might be criminalized by a corrupt body politic.

By defining «physical injury» to include the infliction of pain on a child, spanking has become a crime in Delaware punishable by imprisonmenBy defining «physical injury» to include the infliction of pain on a child, spanking has become a crime in Delaware punishable by imprisonmenby imprisonment.

A 2005 UN agreement on the R2P resolved these concerns by avoiding any legal obligations, defining R2P as a «UN responsibility to protect» and subject to negotiations within the UN Security Council, and narrowing the focus of the R2P to four specific crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing or mass atrocities.

In the bill, the wages earned by irregular migrants — that is, migrants without a valid visa — will be defined as the «proceeds of crime», meaning they can be confiscated by the authorities.

The gravity of a crime is defined by a charge and the law.

Seems like you took the middle part of the law out of the context of «responsibility and coresponsibility for Nazi crimes commited by Third Reich», after which the law lists types of crimes: defined in Article 6, Annex to the Agreement, AND other crimes againts humanity.

[Anyone] who, in public and against the facts, ascribes to the Polish Nation or to the Polish State, responsibility or co-responsibility for Nazi crimes committed by the Third Reich, [as] defined in Article 6 of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, Annex to the Agreement for the prosecution and punishment of the major war criminals of the European Axis, signed in London on August 8, 1945 -LSB-...], or for other offences which are crimes against peace [or] humanity or [that are] war crimes, or who otherwise grossly reduces the responsibility of the actual perpetrators of said crimes, is subject to a fine or [to] imprisonment for up to 3 years.

Adversity is commonly defined as anything children perceive as a threat to their physical safety or that jeopardizes their family or social structure, including emotional, physical or sexual abuse, neglect, bullying by peers, violence at home, parental divorce, separation or death, parental substance abuse, living in a neighborhood with high crime rates, homelessness, discrimination, poverty and the loss of a relative or another loved one.

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.

After twenty years of film - making defined by gritty Batman movies, twisty crime thrillers, and trippy science fiction, Christopher Nolan again re-invents himself with what is on the surface is a gripping war movie, but in actuality an exercise in...

«War crimes are defined by the winners.»

This kind of tone used to depict the interconnectedness between sex and crime set by Cool Hair evokes Harmony Korine's polarizing 2012 feature film Spring Breakers starring Vanessa Hudgens and James Franco, but Mr. Orozco - Cubbon delivers this content much more naturally and with the poise and confidence of an experienced filmmaker who already has a well - defined style, knowingly and purposefully playing with the two intertwining dynamics that keep the audience on its toes.

Take a moment and look at three films this year that define and question our present by illuminating the crimes of our past — Fruitvale Station, The Butler and now, 12 Years a Slave.

While the inclusion of iconic musical numbers like «The Bare Necessities» and «I Wan» na Be Like You» has varying results (although the former fits the more lighthearted tone of its sequence, the latter feels completely out of place), the animated version is defined so much by these two songs that it would have been a crime not to include them.

Adapted by Richard Condon from his own novel and directed by John Huston with a bemused cynicism and clear - eyed acknowledgment of human nature in matters of greed, love and loyalty, it stars Jack Nicholson as Charley Partanna, devoted hit man to Brooklyn's Prizzi crime family and adopted grandson of the wizened old Don Corrado Prizzi (William Hickey, in a career - defining performance).

The familiar «noir,» (defined as a genre of crime film or fiction characterized by cynicism, fatalism and moral ambiguity) is made to feel new here - and it does - thanks to its anchor lead actor, Krisztián Kolovratnik.

Adapted by novelist and screenwriter Richard Price («Clockers,» «Sea of Love»), «Child 44» revolves, nearly obsessively, around the defining Catch - 22 of life in the Soviet Communist era: Crimes like murder, we're repeatedly told, are diseases of capitalism and Western decadence, and therefore can not take place in the worker's paradise Stalin has made.

* Hate crime is defined as a crime motivated by racial, sexual, or other prejudice, typically one involving violence.

Any member of the district administrative or supervisory staff, including any principal but excluding an employee specified in subsection (4), may be suspended or dismissed at any time during the term of the contract; however, the charges against him or her must be based on immorality, misconduct in office, incompetency, gross insubordination, willful neglect of duty, drunkenness, or being convicted or found guilty of, or entering a plea of guilty, regardless of adjudication of guilt, any crime involving moral turpitude, as these terms are defined by rule of the State Board of Education.

A person subject to this subsection who is found ineligible for employment under s. 1012.315, or otherwise found through background screening to have been convicted of any crime involving moral turpitude as defined by rule of the State Board of Education, shall not be employed, engaged to provide services, or serve in any position that requires direct contact with students.

Just cause includes, but is not limited to, the following instances, as defined by rule of the State Board of Education: immorality, misconduct in office, incompetency, two consecutive annual performance evaluation ratings of unsatisfactory under s. 1012.34, two annual performance evaluation ratings of unsatisfactory within a 3 - year period under s. 1012.34, three consecutive annual performance evaluation ratings of needs improvement or a combination of needs improvement and unsatisfactory under s. 1012.34, gross insubordination, willful neglect of duty, or being convicted or found guilty of, or entering a plea of guilty to, regardless of adjudication of guilt, any crime involving moral turpitude.

I was immediately struck by the use of color as a means of defining prejudice, in this case prejudice against those who commit crimes, much as its been a means of defining racism for centuries

For purposes of the means test, the U.S. Bankruptcy Code defines current monthly income as including: «any amount paid by any entity other than the debtor (or in a joint case the debtor and the debtor's spouse), on a regular basis for the household expenses of the debtor or the debtor's dependents (and in a joint case the debtor's spouse if not otherwise a dependent)...» Benefits received under the Social Security Act, payments to victims of war crimes or crimes against humanity on account of their status as victims of such crimes, and payments to victims of international terrorism or domestic terrorism on account of their status as victims of such terrorism are excluded from the means test.

Even if it could be demonstrated that climate change had caused a particular problem, the «crime» that the «victim» is the subject of is not defined by the action of the perpetrator, but by the status of the «victim».

It is defined as the number of crimes that occurred in your hotspots divided by the maximum number of crimes you could have gotten for an area equal in size to that of your hotspots.

If criminal justice is genuinely intended to have a rehabilitative effect, there must be legislation to ensure that once you've «done the time», you are no longer defined «by the crime».

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.»

A federal statute defines «crime of violence» as «(a) an offense that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of another, or «(b) any other offense that is a felony and that, by its nature, involves a substantial risk that physical force against the person or property of another may be used in the course of committing the offense.»

«Murder» and «manslaughter» are specific crimes, usually now defined by state criminal statutes.

In the latter regard, the Press Complaints Commission code of practice committee (of which interestingly and perhaps worryingly, depending on your viewpoint, Mr Dacre is chairman) defines the public interest very clearly as: (i) Detecting or exposing crime or serious impropriety; (ii) Protecting public health and safety; (iii) Preventing the public from being misled by an action or statement of an individual or organisation.

A minor complication is that the law defines the crime in terms of «against the will of the complaining witness, by force, threat, intimidation, or ruse», which could be interpreted as «any of these five reasons».

«Sexual assault» is created by specific statutes, whereas assault and battery are defined by common law (though are also codified as crimes under statutory law).

Richard Hall thinks it's unlikely Blair will ever be prosecuted by the ICC for the Crime of Aggression, which the court will attempt (again) to define this summer, because it will lack temporal jurisdiction.

For example, one could imagine a differently defined crime prohibiting providing funds to finance a purchase of marijuana in excess of 20 grams being committed both in Washington State and Florida at the same time (e.g. perhaps a purchase of marijuana in Washington State was financed by a Florida bank by delivering cash to a courier in Florida who is bound for Washington State knowing that the cash would be used to finance a marijuana purchase).

18 U.S. Code § 2252 defines a crime and punishment for knowingly transporting, or reproducing for distribution by any means, visual depictions involving the use of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct.

In many jurisdictions assault is a crime defined by statute, however, we'll use the common law definition «an attempt to initiate harmful or offensive contact with a person, or a threat to do so.»

In fact, most crimes are defined by state laws and, as a result, will be tried at the state level.

Rouleau J.A. defined the police power exercised by Sgt. Charlebois as «the power of individual police officers to target demonstrators and, where no crime is being investigated or believed to be in progress, but with the intention of preventing crime, to require that they submit to a search if they wish to proceed on foot down a public street».

California Penal Code 211 PC defines the crime of robbery as the «felonious taking of personal property in the possession of another, from his person or immediate presence, and against his will, accomplished by means of force or fear.»

From the legal perspective, some people define economic - based crime to be an act of abstention from pursuing an action that will result in harm to the economic policy or the economic security of the country, committed by a person eligible for taking the criminal responsibility; such an act is prohibited by law and for which the law has prescribed a penalty or precautionary measures.

By s 51 of the International Criminal Court Act 2001 (ICCA 2001) the UK has made genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes as defined by the ICC treaty criminal offences against UK law triable in UK courts where such offences are committed by UK nationals or residentBy s 51 of the International Criminal Court Act 2001 (ICCA 2001) the UK has made genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes as defined by the ICC treaty criminal offences against UK law triable in UK courts where such offences are committed by UK nationals or residentby the ICC treaty criminal offences against UK law triable in UK courts where such offences are committed by UK nationals or residentby UK nationals or residents.

The CLS was, and remains, a jumble of services defined by being unrelated to crime — public law, family law, negligence and social welfare law.

«No benefits will be paid due to Injury or death caused by, contributed to by or related to the following and / or their treatments and / or complications thereof: Sickness; Suicide or intentional self - inflicted Injury or poisoning; War, declared or undeclared; Acts of terrorism; While committing or attempting to commit a crime; Taking of illegal or non-prescribed drugs, or addiction or misuse of prescription drugs; Alcohol abuse or addiction, or being under the influence of alcohol, as defined by the vehicle code of the state or province in which the Accident has occurred; Mental or Nervous Disorders; Pre-Existing Conditions; Subjective Pain or other symptoms unless supported by objective medical findings; Pregnancy and pregnancy - related conditions including but not limited to fertility, pre-natal care, childbirth, miscarriage, abortion or postpartum conditions; Nuclear, biological or chemical exposure as a result of war, declared or undeclared or terrorism.»

Using the general statistics of particular geographic locations — often defined by zip code area or county — gives the car insurance company an idea of your general financial health as well as provides some information about how likely you are to be victimized by crime.

;» «Ponz Supernova,» which looks at Bernard Madoff, and features exclusive jailhouse interviews with Madoff himself; «Damned Spot,» a series that examines the afterlife of places defined by tragic events; «West Cork,» a true crime series about an unsolved society murder, set on the south coast of Ireland (aka Amazon's attempt at «Serial» fame); and «Extra Credit» with Neal Pollack, which involves the author, musician and comedian takes his 13 - year - old son's education into his own hands.

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The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which was adopted by the United Nations in 1948 and ratified by Australia in 1949, defines genocide in Article II: