Sentence examples for a federal offense from inspiring English sources

Harmless fibbing should not be a federal offense.

(Possession is still a federal offense, rendering this a complex transitional period).

Twice civil rights activists tried to make lynching a federal offense.

Are you aware, she said, that kidnapping is a federal offense?

Ms. Smith noted that the 2009 memo "says definitively that distribution continues to be a federal offense".

Because bald eagles are a protected species, it is a federal offense to harass, disturb or injure one.

The law "is not soundly read to make virtually every arson in the country a federal offense," Justice Ginsburg said.

The House voted to establish criminal penalties for harming a fetus while committing a federal offense against a woman.

I asked her if the agents believed that Flynn had lied to them, which would be a federal offense.

(Senator Hanson, meanwhile, is in favor of making the sale of cigarettes to minors a federal offense).

And the post office says it provides a much more secure environment for written communications because it is a federal offense to tamper with the mail.