Sentences with phrase «far lesser crimes»

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Miller and Hoffmann said that only one other gender difference is similar to the one involving religion: females are far less likely than males to commit violent crimes.

This legally questionable action risks escalating further, as US defence secretary James Mattis has admitted, an already devastating conflict and therefore makes real accountability for war crimes and use of chemical weapons less, not more likely.»

I know this about Athiest, they are less likely to get divorced statistically, far more religiously tolerant, and suprising statistic athiest are less likely to commit crimes.

«I'd even go so far as to say that were you to tell the public that if you decriminalised heroin and cocaine and that therefore there would be less crime, they would, at first, say they didn't like it — but if it worked there'd be support.»

The problem — one the government could have dealt with easily if it had the sense — was that a cannabis warning counted as a completed crime, no different from having solved a murder or a burglary but obviously far less taxing.

Ms. Noerdlinger's boyfriend problem is just more grist for the mill for Mr. Mullins and other union leaders, who are spinning the idea that the mayor's reforms are making the city less safe — Mr. Mullins going so far as to place a paid advertisement in newspapers urging the Democratic National Convention not to come to town because New York is «lurching backwards to the bad old days of high crime, danger - infested public spaces, and families that walk our streets worried for their safety.»

In this way, testosterone is less a perpetrator and more an accomplice — one that's sometimes not too far from the scene of the crime.

There's so much more to explore far beyond the outcome of the crime, but Kiri ultimately sets that aside to make room for a mystery whose final reveal is far less interesting than the exploration of emotional fallout that came before it.

A 1999 U.S. Department of Education study found that schools with more than 1,000 students had far higher rates of violent student behavior than schools with fewer than 300 students, and teachers and students in small schools were far less likely to be victims of crime.

That was far less than more traditional crimes such as theft (58 per cent) and procurement fraud (33 per cent) and about the same as accounting fraud (22 per cent).

It then discusses Georgia statutes for seemingly far worse crimes but with far less punishment, but I don't think it's very instructive to compare manslaughter to consensual oral sex.

Personally, if I'd been on the law firms» pro bono committees, I wouldn't have chosen to represent detainees when there are so many far more compelling, but less sexy cases (such as defense of indigent criminal defendants accused of capital crimes at the trial level rather than up at the Supreme Court, for starters) where litigants desperately need representation.

High winds, severe storms, dense populations, high crime rates, and inflated living and medical costs might sometimes be present in the Gem State, but when you compare Idaho to states like Louisiana, California, and Texas, the average Idaho home and household is far less likely to cost an insurance company a ton of money over the life of a policy.

That is in a jurisdiction with a far less driven approach to crime and punishment than is seen in many other places.