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Mr Gadd, who has spent time in a British prison for possessing child pornography, was expelled by Cambodia in 2002 after allegations of importuning for sex.

At each historic site— Humayun's Tomb, the Red Fort of Shah Jahanwe are assailed by peddlers and importuned by beggars, some of them severely disabled.

According to recent research by musicologist Dieter Schickling and novelist Helmut Krausser, the situation was rescued when Corinna's father was convicted for importuning and exposing himself to an underage girl.

Found guilty of importuning men on the pier, he is subject to a McCarthy-style witch-hunt by other residents in the hotel lounge, led by the overbearing Mrs Railton-Bell (Stephanie Cole in fine form).

Even before his first record was released he had been arrested for importuning.

Legislative leaders — particularly, committee chairs — have lost power as Congress has become more porous and responsive to importuning factions using new media.

Throughout the movie Cali, who is meant to be precocious but whose part is overwritten, natters along, importuning Tula to play a maternal role.

As he wrote at the time, "the damage, the lying criminal methods of the police in importuning me and consequently capturing me leaves me cold, stunned and finished".

Kreisler was nothing if not open to importuning money from his acquaintances and wondered how best to raise the subject of his impecunious state.

But there was nothing amusing about the reality for many men – for Sir John Gielgud, for example, in 1953, when he was arrested for importuning in a public lavatory.

Sir John Gielgud was arrested for "importuning" in 1953 in Chelsea, and Peter Dudley, an actor in Coronation Street, was arrested in 1981 in a toilet in Didsbury.

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