Sentence examples for a possible offence from inspiring English sources

That suggested a possible offence under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.

The bill also contains a bizarre provision which allows information relating to a possible offence to be withheld if disclosing it would expose the authority to prosecution.

Scotland Yard declined to comment on its contact with Mr Erlam but said it was investigating a "possible offence" prior to the High Court hearings into Mr Rahman.

But the police said that the OSA was mentioned in the application because a possible offence under that act might have been committed.

The CPS said that regarding a possible offence of actual bodily harm, there was insufficient evidence that strikes with a police baton, which left only superficial injury, and the handcuffing of Lewis, were unreasonable or unlawful in the circumstances and could not "be considered as amounting to the offence of assault occasioning ABH as defined by law".

This was a possible offence; potential executive action was considered.

This would explain why he looks so blithe, seemingly unconscious of any possible offence.

Italian officials keen to spare the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, any possible offence on his visit to Rome covered up nude statues at the city's Capitoline Museum, where Rouhani met Matteo Renzi, the Italian prime minister.

Amid the confusion the government had not shown that there was even a need for a new law, the committee's report said, as virtually all possible offences appeared to fall under existing legislation.

The PPS will consider in consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service where jurisdiction lies in regard to any possible offences that arise".

I'm interested in my psychological reaction, however: feelings of anxiety, a nervous racking of my brain for what the possible offence could be, a strange untethered guilt as I wonder what I could have done to deserve this response – feelings all too familiar to East Germans accused by anonymous neighbours of some unspecified offence or Americans caught up in the ravages of McCarthyism.