An official communiqué from the royal palace said, "The King had never been informed, in any manner or at any time, of the gravity of the abject crimes" for which Galván Viña was convicted.
I had a comfortable life, and could avoid the abject poverty, crime, social inequality and the legacy of political instability.
FOR decades, they have stood in stark juxtaposition: the manicured landscapes and tranquil grounds, the Van Goghs and Monets displayed in cavernous marble halls; and the abject poverty, crime and joblessness just outside.
He wrote widely on international law, a controversial concept at the time, not least because of the abject failure of war crimes prosecutions after the first world war.
This may mean tackling less savoury subjects regarding everyday life in the country, such as crime, corruption and abject poverty.
The Willie Horton ad worked, for instance, because it was clearly linked to Dukakis's own policy positions, and to the then-pressing issue of liberalism's abject failure to deal with rising crime rates.
Perhaps the most sobering example of the damage done to women by consistently conjoining female sexuality with inherent untrustworthiness is our abject failure to successfully prosecute the crime of rape.
Copenhagen has been called a "crime scene" and an "abject failure".
You could go as far as to say that such attacks on wildlife hunting, poaching, abject cruelty is a sort of organized crime.
This failure has left more than half of the country's population at the mercy of abject poverty, chronic diseases and violent crimes.
