Sentence examples for commit grave offenses from inspiring English sources

During the past two decades, the NCP has frequently used proxy militias in both Darfur and the South to commit grave offenses against civilians and as a means to divide and conquer.

Prosecutors say that Lord Ashdown's testimony is crucial because it showed that Mr. Milosevic on this occasion was warned that his troops were committing grave offenses.

A dowry used in this way is actually a conditional gift that is supposed to be restored to the wife or her family if the husband divorces, abuses, or commits other grave offenses against her.

And regretfully, this is where Iowa's elected officials stand today: ready to commit a grave offense against our constitution and democratic rights based on the advice of greedy fools who would aid and abet factory farms where some are bashing the brains out of animals with pickaxes rather than protecting those animals from harm and abuse.

In an e-mail, he acknowledged that his colleagues "were lax in certain regards in the preparation of papers," but he denied having committed a grave offense.

On one side are old-guard Israelis who said Azaria committed a grave offense in killing a wounded attacker who posed no threat at the time.

Here was a man who committed a grave offense not just against his fellow soldiers, but also violated of his solemn oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States and resultantly, all citizens of our nation.

The offense here of disrupting the sangha is one of the five grave offenses.

Further, to favor the five grave offenses and to harm people by misleading them is lamentable.

To make groundless accusations about me is to murder your father; it is among the five grave offenses.

Alito agreed with the Italian court's reversal of a decision backing legislation that penalized a wife more than her husband in cases of adultery, contending she had committed the graver offense.