Sentences with phrase «less than a crime»

I'd like to see more, and I'd like to see some attention paid to deforestation, which will have to be brought under control if we are to reduce CO2 emissions and is in any case nothing less than a crime against the human future.

Not exact matches

When it comes to white collar crime, Canada has enjoyed a less - than - stellar reputation for prosecuting those involved in financial schemes and corporate corruption.

When asked by a local news station about his tab, Boren said he only took home $ 400,000 — less than he'd normally charge — and the rest of the money went to mental health experts, crime - scene reconstructors, mitigation investigators (who rarely get hired outside of death penalty cases), and DNA labs.

«A criminal convicted of aggravated grievous bodily harm will walk away with a lesser sentence than many of those convicted of what I believe to be victimless crimes.»

Though the long - term implications of skimping on public safety to satisfy the public purse remain to be seen, recent New Jersey crime stats are less than heartening.

As a blogger for The Economist points out, mid-sized cities score better than megacities because they tend to have less crime and congestion.

For crimes netting less than $ 500,000 or so, a local or state agency will most likely be behind the investigation.

To make sure we had a sufficient track record to evaluate, we excluded people who had been in the job for less than two years; we also excluded any executive who had been arrested or convicted of a crime.

13A -6-67: (a) A person commits the crime of se ual abuse in the second degree if:... (2) He, being 19 years old or older, subjects another person to se ual contact who is less than 16 years old, but more than 12 years old.

Timor - Leste, for instance, addressed its war of 1974 to 1999 by undertaking Community Reconciliation Panels for crimes less than rape and murder, such as arson, beating, and theft.

I suppose not, but I do think a woman choosing to get an abortion for anything less than a medical issue or crime is not good.

the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man kind than any other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.

All available studies show atheists to commit significantly less crime than religious people.

GrammarNazi «The typical crimes taking places [sic] in these houses is [sic, again] less harmful than asbestos and lead - based paints.»

The typical crimes taking places in these houses is less harmful than asbestos and lead - based paints.

If that is not deemed to be conclusive, how about the fact that the average atheist crime against humanity is 18.3 million percent worse than the very worst depredation committed by Christians, even though atheists have had less than one - twentieth the number of opportunities with which to commit them.

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.

They are also statistically less likely to commit a crime or end up in prison than evangelicals.

You should let them know that their application of the scientific method to the interpretation of evidence is no more or less credible than solving crimes with psychic powers.

Eschewing the argument that one evil was lesser than the other, Courtois firmly asserted that both totalitarian regimes practiced «crimes against humanity» on a monumental scale.

Using the «potential» argument, would it be less of a crime to end your life than the lives of my parents?

No, it shouldn't have happened, but it is less than 1 % of priests worldwide that have done these crimes.

even if i can out and said he was a ped, its much lesser of a crime than to side with the peds which he blatently does?

The press played a role — though a less significant one than it likes to imagine — in ferreting out the Watergate crimes, and it has never recovered from those moments of glory.

As sociologist George Yancey has declared, perhaps these crimes would be less frequent if we focused on the lives that had been lived rather than the killer who ended them.

«In this work, no excuses will be offered in order to justify the appalling crime of sexual abuse perpetrated by a small number of Catholic priests - about 2 to 4 \ % credible accusations in the United States and less than this in the United Kingdom in the last forty years - nor for the pastoral negligence of some bishops.

Actually, there is quite a bit of evidence atheists on average commit less crime than the religious.

There are something like 406411 Catholic priests out there in the world (according to a 2005 census) and less than half of 1 % have been charged with a crime.

Barolo Burglars Steal Thousands of Bottles of Wines: Two of Barolo's wineries have been robbed of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of wine in less than three weeks, and the evidence suggests the same thieves are behind both crimes...

One might reasonably argue that McGwire's crimes were equivalent to those committed by all the future Hall of Famers who were hopped up on greenies in the»70s and»80... and were less egregious than those committed by all the ball - scuffers and bat - corkers who broke actual rules designed to ensure that everyone was playing the games fairly.

C'm on Goodell his problems were of a lesser nature than committing a crime or injuring another person..

It should be a crime to cast him for anything less than a four - episode arc, and an outright felony to kill his character without him uttering «cocksucker.»

None less than Bayern Munich, our financially fair playing opponents in the Champions League, are making representations to UEFA to try to get the bizarre spending of the oil, crime and dodgy money funded clubs curtailed.

So, an average citizen bases their favorable view of him on the fact that unless they are involved with the drug trade, they are 13x times less likely to be a victim of a rogue crime that's part of war drugs; than a non-victim of a crime that war on drugs is percieved to have prevented.

Stymied on his top immigration initiatives, Trump is making good on one plan that critics denounce as fearmongering and misleading: opening an office for victims of crimes committed by immigrants, although studies show immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than native - born citizens.

«When investigations of lesser political crimes than trying to buy someone off the ballot are noted daily, it shows arrogance of power when friends of Jerrold Nadler would try to break the law themselves,» Rosenberg, 30, who describes himself as a «start - up and social entrepreneur,» said in a statement.

Today they paint him as being less than honest on knife crime.

Article 316 bis third: A penalty of detention for a period of not less than six months and not exceeding seven years, shall be inflicted for the following crimes:

ALBANY — A proposal to end cash bail for lower - level crimes will likely not be considered as part of the state's estimated $ 170 billion budget, top lawmakers said Sunday as they continued closed - door talks less than a week before the budget deadline.

«What happened in New York is no less than a disgrace, a crime,» Astorino said in a speech at the state Republican convention here.

Isn't a justified liberal response to this that if you have evidence that gun liberalisation in your society would lead to more not less gun crime, than gun control is a legitimate liberal response?

57 % of the public expected the coalition to be tougher than the last Labour government in dealing with crime; only 13 % thought it was being tougher; 23 % said it was less tough and 64 % said it was about the same.

The NYPD said in a statement that «crime in city parks is less than 1 % of all reported crime in New York City,» while «City parks represent 14 % of New York City land mass, which makes them one of the safest places in the city and the country.»

A significant share of the gaps in income, education, crime, and other socio - economic indicators between Southern states and non-Southern states in the U.S. is associated statistically with having larger African - American populations, although Southern whites are still lower in income, less likely to receive educations, and more likely to commit crimes, etc. than whites in metropolitan areas outside the South.

The truth is this: reoffending rates have hardly changed for a decade — and indeed those for short sentenced prisoners are unacceptably high, with almost 60 % of those sentenced to less than 12 months returning to crime within a year.

He added, «Saying that the SAFE ACT or any other law that was passed less than a year ago and hasn't been implemented is responsible for that drop in crimes is totally ludicrous,» King said.

Firstly, I should point out that most sexual crime is committed by someone the victim knows - «stranger danger» is less of a fear than «partner danger»... or in many circumstances «pimp danger».

However, the public are generally pessimistic about its ability to deliver in other areas — less than half have confidence in its ability to improve the NHS (32 %) and schools (32 %), cut crime (33 %) or immigration (39 %) and to protect the country against terrorism (42 %).

Silver, who must also pay a $ 1.75 million fine and forfeit $ 5 million in proceeds from his crimes, has asked the judge that he be sent to the Federal Correctional Institution in Otisville, New York, less than a two - hour drive from his Lower East Side residence.

But hey since the average time to crime rate per the ATF in the US is 14 years, the number of felons buying their firearms from licensed dealers continues to fall 1994 14 % to 2008 5.96 %, and the poster child of all gun control laws is enforced less than 1 % of the time, alowing all but 13,024 felons out of just under 1 million of those rejected to go free and acquire their firearms from an unlicensed source is such startling evidence of how INEFFECTIVE our legal system is.