Sentences with phrase «lives than the crime»

Watching a superhero isn't supposed to be a drag but it seems like the cast of «Pawn Stars» have more exciting lives than the crime - busting, trench club using, knight of justice.

Not exact matches

Mexico declared war on drug cartels and organized crime a decade ago, a conflict that claimed more than 200,000 lives and shows few signs of slowing up.

Being rich helps more than anything else, but it is not all that counts; things like crime, trust in public institutions and the health of family life matter too.

Second, seek legislation requiring that if a federally insured financial institution is required to pay fines to or settlements with any regulatory agency aggregating more than $ 2.5 billion in any two year period based on conduct that, if established, would constitute a crime under any law, then the CEO, President, and all Board members must step down, disgorge all of the bank's stock they own, and they are disqualified from holding any office at any federally - insured institution for the rest of their lives.

A community of stable families has fewer problems with crime, antisocial behaviour and isolation than a community in which short - lived relationships are the norm.

I also was aware of the hypocrisy of how «gay» sin, or «non-virgin» sin, or other «moral» issues, were regarded far far differently than sins of omission, white lies, tax fudging, white collar crime in general (who is more sinful, the girl that has sex before marriage, or the CEO that knows his company is lax on pollution standards that affect the health of hundreds / thousands of people and animals that live nearby)

They wasted money on how to destroy life rather than build a life...!?! Man those mentalities have to pay for their crimes to humanity with out fail...

On the other hand, criminal punishment may not always contribute to a just society As argued eloquently by Donald Shriver in these pages (August 26, 1998), «living with others sometimes means that we must value the renewal of community more highly than punishing, or seeking communal vengeance for, crimes.»

@BoldGeorge, Ra - pe is a terrible crime that in my opinion is worse than murder because the victim is forced to live with the aftermath (especially if, say, the victim becomes pregnant and is forced to deliver the child against her will).

Civil liberties are still quite high (though W tried to do them in), medical science has allowed people to live longer and better, crime has generally been trending downwards for decades, and the average American lives far, far better than his predecessors 70 years ago.

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

They are unhappy with developments in America, but rather than direct their anger against the corporate economic powers that are doing them dirt, they have instead been diverted to conservative cultural issues» race, crime, moral decay, homosexuality, guns, abortion, feminism, anti-Americanism, and on into infinity» that are largely irrelevant to their lives.

The doctors who committed these crimes had embraced the eugenicist ideology that views some lives as of lower «quality» and, hence, lower value than others.

If they have not chosen to suffer these things, then why does God have more respect for the freedom of criminals to commit crime than he does for the freedom of their victims to go about their lives in peace and safety?

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.

Given over to fearful crime and passion, plunged in the blackest ignorance, preyed upon by hideous and grotesque delusions, yet steadfastly serving the profoundest of ideals in their fixed faith that existence in any form is better than non-existence, they ever rescued trimphantly from the jaws of ever - imminent destruction the torch of life, which, thanks to them, now lights the world for us.

It is not that God required blood — it is that we sinners wouldn't approach Him without some compensation provided from our part for all our wrongdoings (and that compensation for serious crimes has to be, in our mind, a serious one: what is more serious than blood (life) of an innocent creature, in exchange for all our dirt and death we see in ourselves).

An argument could be made that the old puritan was too generous, thinking that God had killed his son for a thought crime rather than for a crime committed by ancestors who lived millennia ago.

This was more than welcome in a region that has to cope with political instability, high crime rates, a tea industry suffering from falling prices and rising costs, and a large part of the population living below poverty level.

«Hate crimes is something that we've always looked seriously at, but the increasing of penalties for certain classes, we've started to have problems with that, because we don't want to make it seem like one person's life or the crime that happens to them should have a stiffer penalty than say you or I. So, those have been some of the challenges that we've had.

If Nigeria has a lower prison index than United States of America, United Kingdom and most developed jurisdictions, it simply means that Nigeria is one of the safest countries to live or that alternatively those who commit crime are not being properly investigated and prosecuted.

More than 30 law enforcement professionals from five counties are attending a three - day training session in Albany this week, participants in a unique initiative: a law - enforcement training program that analyzes how the design of buildings and public spaces can contribute to crime reduction and improve quality of life.

«I believe that only God can forgive and show ultimate compassion to those who commit terrible crimes and I would rather live in a country where justice is tempered by mercy than exist in one where vengeance and retribution are the norm.»

The shadow Home Secretary ran into a similar storm of criticism last summer when he compared life in British inner cities to the popular American TV series The Wire, set in Baltimore, where the crime rate is far higher than anywhere in Britain.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito wants to wipe the slate clean for more than 700,000 quality - of - life - crime scofflaws.

«I would rather take criticism about that than have parents come to me in Catford, in Lewisham, when their children's lives have been utterly devastated by gangs and knife crime,» Ms Alexander added.

It's hard to think of an uglier racket than coercing underage girls into a life of prostitution, but that crime is obscenely hard to prosecute under New York law.

Singas also combines the hard - nosed qualities of a good prosecutor with a sensible willingness to use programs that allow young offenders to avoid the stigma of a criminal record and put themselves on the road to a productive life rather than a life of crime.

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It's clear virtually from the get - go that filmmaker Todd Phillips is looking to transform this true - life tale into a Martin Scorsese - like crime drama, as evidenced by War Dogs» less - than - subtle visuals and almost paint - by - numbers rise - and - fall structure.

There's just nothing even slightly likeable in the game — players are more likely to have fun banging their heads against a wall or cleaning rubbish on a highway than they'll have with Crime Life.

His next project (which, though it doesn't begin filming until next month, is currently slotted for an end - of - year release) is a New York - set period dramedy based on the stranger - than - fiction, real - life FBI sting operation (ABSCAM) that brought down numerous crime figures and corrupt government officials in 1980.

The film tries to play as a realistic crime drama, but blows it with larger than life characters and situations.

The screenplay is based on on a book by a couple of Boston Globe journalists which exposed Bulger's catalogue of racketeering, murder and extortion, and while movies and real life should never be mistaken for one another, Black Mass successfully depicts a seamy, sleazy, blue collar milieu where blood is thicker than water and crime is just what you do to get by.

Rudd, despite a co-screenwriting credit, subdues his smart - ass rascal persona a bit here to be a more approachable and likeable hero, if a tad vanilla, who is more motivated by affairs of the heart (the potential to restore his relationship with the daughter he couldn't see while spending years in prison) than in living a life of crime just for the sake of it.

So no great surprise here that The Lincoln Lawyer turns out to be superior piece of crime storytelling with some characters clearly designed for recurring roles (in other novels and perhaps other films should this one do well) while others are designated for showy guest appearances as larger - than - life evildoers or tough - guy eccentrics.

When Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) departs the diner to walk the earth like Caine in «Kung Fu,» fully intending to leave behind a life of crime to help people and get into adventures, it was more than just a satisfying conclusion — it was wish fulfillment.

Joel and Ethan Coen — Joel directs, Ethan produces and they co-write — take us deep into the heart of James M. Cain territory, Texas - style, where crimes of passion tend to take on larger - than - life and therefore often comic proportions.

Life is good (and glitzy) in 1953 Los Angeles, if you don't mind smoke and mirrors, hidden crime, rampant racism and more than a few dodgy cops.

We want them to really feel the larger - than life enemies as they're exploring the expansive open world, combatting crime and collecting orbs.»

Despite its attempts to construct itself as a crime drama and psychological thriller, rather than exploit a pontificating agenda to appeal a more balanced audience, Captive remains an unsatisfactory account of a notorious real - life event that made headlines around the world, owing to the phenomenal spiritual awakening of a cold - blooded murderer and rapist.

In Satya, as in Company (02) and Sarkar (05), the two other movies that would form Varma's career - defining crime trilogy, cops and criminals are nothing more than rival gangs, and beneath the thin veneer of everyday life lurks the seething corruption that makes the world go round.

While having previously explored larger than life criminals / anti-heroes in Chopper (2000) and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) Andrew Dominik reaches new heights with this crime parable.

Filmed on location in Hamburg and Paris, with some scenes shot in grimy, late - seventies New York City, Wenders's international breakout is a stripped - down crime story that mixes West German and American film flavors, and it features cameos by filmmakers Jean Eustache (The Mother and the Whore), Samuel Fuller (Shock Corridor), and Nicholas Ray (Bigger Than Life).

Though it's notable that Cronenberg's crime - thriller ends with a life being saved rather than a reassuring death, Eastern Promises rarely attempts to subvert the constraints of its genre.

The other big question mark is how the members of the family are really related to one another, other than through their lives of petty crime.

The list of icons making appearances was truly unprecedented: Superman soars twice — once in the «return» and the other as Ben Affleck; Crockett and Tubbs exude cool; Ethan Hunt falls short; Captain Jack Sparrow sets the stage for the finale; Jack Black sometimes wears stretchy pants; Huey Long is resurrected and somehow over-played by Sean Penn; the mass appeal of the DaVinci Code novel fizzled onscreen; Robert Altman's amazing career ended with an excellent adaptation of a radio series starring Garrison Keillor's made for radio face; Johnny Depp tried to untrack his career with The Libertine; Nicolas Cage was front and center in the disastrous remake of The Wicker Man, but if the preview is any indication, his sleep - walk was merely a tune - up for this year's Ghost Rider; Woody Allen (with Scarlett Johansson as his muse) re-emerged with his best comedy since Crimes and Misdemeanors; amazingly, Jen and Vince's real life break - up was more entertaining than the film version; and while on - set hook - ups seem to the norm, how could the dreadful You, Me and Dupree have been an aphrodisiac for Kate and Owen?

Throughout the course of the film, we see Bailey face all aspects of life from marriage, family life, domestic violence, animal abuse, crime... perhaps A Dog's Purpose has more in common with Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin than anything else.

The plot involves LED - lit flash drives, encrypted live feeds of the rotating IP address in government servers and so much more 24-esque technobabble that all, unfortunately, has to come out of Gomez's mouth, and Voight's motivations are still somewhat murky, other than his eventual admission that he's just a «big fan» of Hawke's driving, and wants him to realize his potential doing this kind of crime work.

If you have older teens begging for an action film, unfortunately they don't come much tamer than this, even though it includes some action violence, two unneeded sexual expletives and other profanities, along with the overall theme of glamorizing a life of crime.