Sentence examples for commit against from inspiring English sources

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The expression "commit against" is not commonly used in written English, but it can be used in some cases where you are referring to an action taken against someone or something. For example, you could say, "The government committed against the animal testing laws by passing new regulations."

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Murder is the most serious crime one human being can commit against another.

With a dismissive "these things happen", Mr Galloway is trivialising one of the more unpleasant crimes that one human being can commit against another.

In "Pulp Fiction," his merry roundelay set among Los Angeles lowlifes, the aggressive acts that the characters commit against one another are so abrupt and extreme that they become funny.

Mr. Assad's minister of religion affairs, Muhammad Ziyadah, later embellished the remarks, saying, "We must be fully aware of what the enemies of God and malicious Zionism conspire to commit against Christianity and Islam".

"Nothing Lost" is a big, rude novel, graphic in its depiction of violence, unwavering in its excavation of the petty, middling and truly heinous crimes that people commit against one another.

"I feel the horror and the shame of the crime which the law is about to commit against justice" — this at a time when the overwhelming majority of Americans thought of the anarchists exactly as they think of terrorists now, as aliens with large-scale massacre on their minds.

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Thus a list of Western crimes committed against children.

They want international protection from the massacres committed against them".

You? Me? Did you see a crime committed against you?

"There wasn't any genocide committed against the Serbs".

"The crimes committed against sex workers are already crimes.

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