Sentence examples for an act committed from inspiring English sources

Silent, she had watched an act committed to impress her, to deserve her love, as other acts had been.

Some of the comments take the familiar tack of dehumanizing the "other," of casting the murder of this man as an act committed by "savages".

So you really think the murder of people exactly like your daughter was an act committed "in the kindest possible way"?

Rather than seeing crime as a wrong committed against the state, the restorative justice model positions crime as an act committed against an individual and a community.

The legal tradition has been to regard suicide as an act committed when the balance of the mind is disturbed - that is, as a permanent or temporary madness.

They're smiling and winking, and only on looking closely do you see that they're disemboweling themselves in ritual suicide, an act committed in 1970 by the writer Yukio Mishima after he attempted a right-wing coup.

Milligan's investigation report, endorsed by the top Navy leadership, concluded that the explosion was "most probably" a result of an intentional act committed by a Turret Two crewman named Clayton Hartwig.

2 54 p.m. | Updated The man charged with trying to kill a plainclothes New York police officer was ordered held without bail on Thursday at Brooklyn Criminal Court, where a prosecutor characterized the shooting as a "heinous" act committed by an "evil" man.

Those investigators said a careful reconstruction of mail-handling procedures at American Media suggested that the most likely explanation was that the anthrax contamination was a deliberate act committed by an individual with a grudge or other motive unrelated to terrorism.

A homicide is "a volitional act committed by another person".

That's what it always was – an aggressive act committed on the game world.