Sentences with phrase «go to jail because»

Please don't go to jail because you wanted to order a delicious cocktail and make a basketball reference.

I do wish they'd lighten the restrictions for convicts, it's not like they went to jail because they were fine, upstanding citizens!

«One guy I thought was cool and normal told me «I'm bisexual and I'm probably going to jail because of all these drugs I sold.»

She has always felt guilty because her Mother went to jail because of her call.

You are not going to jail because you recorded a conversation without consent.

«I think they went to jail because they did something really quite reckless, disregarded safety laws, and there was a terrible consequence,» says Norm Keith, a partner with Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP.

Not exact matches

«The main reason something bad could happen again is because no one went to jail the first time,» Cramer said on «Squawk on the Street.»

«It's rare because... you can be prosecuted and go to jail,» he said.

«I went to jail a few weeks ago because I was worried this great reporting from Inside Climate News and the LA Times might disappear.

I learned that fish like sweet and sour candy, and that the reason they don't come out of the water is because they are scared of going to jail.

We are where we are today because our ancestors were willing to go to jail, to be thrown to the lions and be burned at the stake.

-------------------------------------------------------------------- If your so important, go ahead and try to see the Pres. of Russia, China, or here in the U.S., they would throw you in jail, because You are a nobody, UNWORTHY to be in their present.

We have hundreds of thousands of people coming out of jails and prisons each year, many of whom are going to go back to jail or prison because no one will help them manage some of the issues that have to be managed.

Whether he goes to jail for as many as five years because he rejected the draft and whether he ever fights again — Elijah Muhammad has decreed that he must not — are questions at least momentarily moot.

We can't beat a mediocre team because we are not better than that overall... They want to win, not us... The tourist club is Arsenal, like some type of resort where they get pampered, massage, jacouzzi, go to the gym, exercise in training, great body and money... Then they have all time to party and snatch all the girls... It's a rip off as price of their ticket... Wake up and get real, leave that poor referee, maybe go wait for him and bumrush him or throw his ass in jail; it is Monopoly at arsenal after all..

It is believed that these people went to jail under President Kufuor not because they committed worse crimes than others in the NDC government of Rawlings but because they were probably sacrificial lambs who had to pay for the sins of the Boss and his wife.

If I do, I will automatically win in court, because revenue is pretty much the only criteria by which I am allowed to sort candidates and not go to jail.

Because of their efforts, an election administrator went to jail.

The character is sent to jail and goes insane because he is denied anything to read.

The Attorney General made a statement that judges are going to be sent to jail because they are granting bail to suspects according to the Constitution!

(He) went to jail, I don't know how many times, because of what he believed in and I'm going to stand with John tomorrow,» Slaughter said.

«Are you really telling me I'd risk going to jail, I'd ruin my career, only because I knew a man many years previously had done some plastering work for me?»

He said that city leaders «don't want to see people going to jail simply because they can't afford a small amount of bail for a minor offense,» but said that «there's more than one way to address that issue» and that he is «particularly focused on... some of the efforts to have a supervised release effort for very low - level crimes that we've seen done effectively before.»

«If you threaten to kill somebody and end up going to jail for only four months I think you should count yourself lucky because you have become a society risk when you go round saying and doing things of that nature.»

If I will follow President Mahama and speak the truth and because of that I will go to jail in Nsawam, I will continue to speak the truth.»

In the normal course of events politicians rarely go to jail; not necessarily because they have more virtuous characters than the rest of us, but because they can usually afford better lawyers and character witnesses (and being part of the political / legal establishment probably doesn't hurt either).

«When they say, alright, this is how much gum can come in from other places and we can't reach our demand, you can imagine that's a «get out of jail free» card for the U.S. producers to charge whatever they want because they know it's going to get consumed,» he said.

Com however, my problem is the blatant vandalisation of EC registration materials which all points at government; because if any opposition member confidently vandalised equipment of the EC, they will go to jail.

«One is, «Oh my God, corruption's going to resonate here more than anywhere else,» because they've just seen their state senator thrown into jail for corruption.

Hamid also said it was wrong for people to juxtapose the jailing of the trio with those convicted during the 2012 election petition for contempt, because the trio went «beyond what the others said at the election petition about the unfairness of judges to threatening them».

Also I question the story that he went to jail for curing cancer with apricot seed because adult can choose any treatment they want including no treatment.

One dude said, «I've got this guy who snitched on me, it was a drug deal, basically, I want to bring him in the yard and have him put the gloves on because if we fight in the streets we're going to go to jail.»

«If I meet him on the street... he oughtta hope that he goes to jail, because if we come across, I think he'll be lying on the floor somehow, magically,» Sorvino said of the scandal - plagued movie mogul and producer, who has been accused of sexual misconduct by numerous women.

Michelle Williams plays a woman traveling through Oregon on her way to Alaska who stupidly attempts to shoplift some food for her dog, and even more stupidly gets sent to jail for most of a day because of it and even more stupidly has had her dog stolen while she was gone.

We don't really care about test scores per se, we care about them because we think they are near - term proxies for later life outcomes that we really do care about — like graduating from high school, going to college, getting a job, earning a good living, staying out of jail, etc...

And educators, we just teach our children, because you see, in the «60s, when I went to jail, only 10 percent of Americans had a college education.

And saying that states and localities can choose to forgo federal funds if they don't wish to comply sounds about as voluntary as saying that paying your income tax is completely voluntary because you can always refuse and choose to go to jail.

Julian's arrival further compounds the guilt because if her mother had not gone to jail Julian might not have been put up for adoption.

Cole reacts by fighting Keith and that was a huge problem because he could go back to jail if he had fought someone.

My friend obviously should have said no, but because he was disbarred and went to jail and now has to pay all the money back, but he didn't refuse his parents and look what it's cost him.

@marcelm I'm not Jim, so I can't explain what he meant, but being duped into being a money mule is worse than money laundering because you're being made a money - laundering patsy who ends up going to jail, rather than being a traditional money launderer who ends up retiring to a Caribbean tax haven.

But weigh the pros and cons and remember one other thing: You can't go to jail just because you owe someone money.

i pretty much told them what i thought of them and that they were not getting my dog with out a fight.Needless to say i almost went to jail, but it would have been worth it, because they were not getting my dog.

«I went to jail a few weeks ago because I was worried this great reporting from Inside Climate News and the LA Times might disappear.

I worked a lot in industries where QC was taken seriously — both because it was a good thing to do and because you go to jail if it isn't.

Answer: According to one town, at least, this is not such a violation because you can always choose to go to jail instead!

Because you love taking risks, you should base your entire case on just one argument — especially when losing means that your client will go to jail.

Low - income families must fight these battles on their own because — despite the fact that civil cases can result in people going to jail, or losing their home, health care, custody of their children or sense of safety — there is no right to an attorney in civil legal proceedings as there is for criminal defendants.

because i'm about to snap or go to jail.

John Pollock: It's a trick question I appreciate, because it goes right to our main message, which is, when a court has a person who hasn't paid a traffic offense, the reason that they are permitted to put someone in jail is because if they can actually demonstrate, if they can actually believe that, that person has the money and is just choosing not to pay it, they can put them in prison because at that point, they're trying to coerce them.