Sentence examples for aberrant act from inspiring English sources

But people close to him say his crime is an aberrant act.

Like any such aberrant act, it is overdetermined, the end result of many processes: governmental, personal, social.

"The extraordinary powers of clemency allow me to exercise compassion and to recognize that Charline Brundidge's crime was an aberrant act in an otherwise law-abiding and productive life, an act that was a direct response to her history of domestic abuse," Mr. Pataki said.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon went on Twitter to express dismay over what he called an "aberrant act of terror and barbarity". "This is a night of sadness for Mexico," said Alejandro Poire, a federal security spokesman.

Gunmen stormed a crowded casino in northern Mexico on Thursday and ignited a fire that trapped patrons inside, killing at least 53 people in what the nation's president called an "aberrant act of terror". The attack on the Casino Royale was the latest bout of spectacular violence in Monterrey, an industrial hub that is Mexico's third-largest city.

"That speaks to a company's entire culture, from the top down, and not just to aberrant acts of individual employees," Mr. Getnick said.

The episodes have shaken the tight-knit and largely secretive voodoo community in New York, and practitioners say they were aberrant acts perpetrated by ignorant people who were abusing the religion.

Early in 2004, when pictures emerged of Iraqi prisoners being abused by soldiers at Abu Ghraib, General Cullen said he quickly put the cruelty down as the aberrant acts of a few twisted individuals, and a failure of their direct commanders.

By themselves, they would just as likely have served to confine and localize the malfeasance to a handful of people; they would have allowed skeptics to dismiss a vast scandal as the aberrant acts of a few wrongdoers.

Estrogen-induced signaling mediated by estrogen receptors (ERs) is also affected by aberrant ERs that act as constitutively active or dominant negative modulators.

But they can matter for immunotherapies because the aberrant molecules may act as antigens foreign molecules in the body that trigger an immune response.