Sentence examples for committed in office from inspiring English sources
In concrete terms, crimes committed in office were unpunishable without a parliamentary vote to waive a politician's immunity.
The new government, citing public pressure, has indicted former top officials for crimes allegedly committed in office.
Congressional permission is required for ministers and legislators to be investigated for crimes committed in office, and only the Supreme Court can try them.
Several of her former ministers, including Yuri Lutsenko, who served as interior minister, are in detention for crimes allegedly committed in office.
It will be a historic moment for Malaysia - Najib will be the first former prime minister put on trial for crimes allegedly committed in office.
A month later, his successor, Gerald Ford, grants him a full pardon for any federal crimes he may have committed in office.
Then there's Jimmy Carter, trying to atone for sins he didn't commit in office by becoming a carpenter for the poor, and poor Bill Clinton who still has to prove to right-wing talk show nuts and their spokespersons in Congress that his wife didn't steal the White House silverware.
His crimes took place over years and he led far from a "blameless life". Crimes committed in an office building should be treated as seriously as crimes committed on a street corner.
On September 8 , 1974 declaring that in the end "it is not the ultimate fate of Richard Nixon that most concerns me" but rather "the immediate future of this great country," Ford pardoned Nixon "for all offenses against the United States" that he had committed "or may have committed" while in office.
To their enemies – among whom Prince Charles holds the megaphone – their uncompromising concrete boxes are the greatest sins that have ever been committed in a planning office.
