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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a criminal line" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a line of conduct or behavior that is illegal or associated with criminal activity.
Example: "The detective was determined to trace the origins of the criminal line that had been operating in the city for years."
Alternatives: "a line of crime" or "a criminal path".
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His next film, "The Usual Suspects" (1995), about five men who meet in a criminal line-up, was so stylish and highly praised that Mr. Singer was promptly placed in the pantheon of hip, young and sought-after Hollywood directors.
"I didn't want a lot of negative consequences to result," Osborne said, while acknowledging that he might have taken a tougher tack with players who straddled or crossed the criminal line.
The report was released as the defence secretary, Des Browne, said a review had concluded that "no further criminal lines of enquiry" would be pursed in regard to Mousa's death.
The second Buddy Cianci, Judge Torres said, "presided over an administration that is rife with corruption at all levels" and "engaged in an egregious breach of public trust by engaging to operate the city that Buddy Cianci was supposed to serve as a criminal enterprise to line his own pockets".
"Perhaps the Court will make this the law of the land, but then, smart money is on the death of the provocation doctrine," he wrote Tuesday on Fault Lines, a criminal justice blog.
At first I was looking forward to it, wondering if I might get the chance to sit on a criminal case along the lines of one of my family's favorite shows, Law and Order, SVU.
The use of embryos for research is heavily restricted in Germany under the Embryo Protection Act of 1990 (Section 2), which makes the derivation of embryonic stem cell lines a criminal offence.
Israel's attorney general, Yehuda Weinstein, said police would take action against any "manifestation of [racism] that crosses the line into a criminal act".
In the first episode, they steal, he strikes her, we acknowledge the fact he had a criminal record; further down the line, Charmian has an abortion by another man.
Even a sardonic sense of humor can be a criminal offense if the punch lines zing Mr. Mugabe, who controls the police, prosecutors and prisons.
"These defendants saddled the city's affordable housing program with a criminal pay-to-play scheme, lining their pockets at the public's expense," Rose Gill Hearn, the city's commissioner of investigation, said in a news release.
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