Sentence examples for acts of mischief from inspiring English sources

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Now, night-time is the right time to be with the one you love, but it is also the right time for nefarious acts of mischief: from flyposting to graffiti, this is the defacing hour.

Instead, the Americans berated the Iranians for a few acts of mischief that were probably carried out at the behest of Mr Khatami's conservative opponents.Angling for Iran's co-operation on Iraq, Mr Bush has resisted pressure to send messages of support to the Iranian students who have now been demonstrating against the regime for more than a month.

While about half of the abuse directed against other groups were acts of "mischief," like graffiti or property damage, two thirds of crimes against sexual minorities were violent in nature, with threats and assault remaining quite frequent.

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Henin's act of mischief — or, as Serena called it at the time, "lying and fabricating" — was not an oddity.

Stephen Bayley Design critic 2005: Conservative 2010: Conservative Constituency: Vauxhall In 2005 voting Conservative in this part of London was a bravura act of mischief.

A protracted, adults-only act of mischief perpetrated on the familiar fairy tale, "Snow White" first appeared, in its entirety, in The New Yorker, in 1967.

It was evident that Greene played a dominant role in her life, even though she shuddered when recalling an act of mischief or malevolence.

In 2009, 50 workers at the nuclear power plant in Kaiga, Karnataka, were exposed to radiation after tritium made its way to the water cooler, which the Nuclear Power Corporation said was deliberately contaminated in a possible "act of mischief".

"I would like very much to have him among my guys - not as an act of mischief but to work for his redemption," Antonio Mazzi, a Catholic priest from Exodus, a rehabilitative foundation, told La Repubblica.

I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion…Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption; and, further from the seduction of females or males, of freemen and slaves.

"It might be to cause an act of terror, an act of mischief, to carry out some kind of crime, or the "white hat" type, to show that it can be done in order to warn others of the vulnerabilities".

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