One of the RICO charges was for conspiracy, and the remaining twenty-nine charges described a variety of particular criminal acts allegedly committed in the service of the conspiracy.
Redemption through a sin or a crime committed in the service to an unwritten moral law was among Ford's deepest and most enduring themes, served perhaps most gloriously and painfully in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance".
The pope referred only obliquely to the Crusades, asking that Catholics acknowledge past injustices committed "in the service of truth, " but many within the Vatican worried about how this would be interpreted in the Muslim world.
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger on "sins committed in the service of truth": Let us pray that each one of us, looking to the Lord Jesus, meek and humble of heart, will recognize that even men of the church, in the name of faith and morals, have sometimes used methods not in keeping with the Gospel in the solemn duty of defending the truth.
"The amnesty covers all crimes, no matter what the kind and level of crime," the decree said, including crimes committed in military service and those involving "fugitives for political reasons" -- a group that includes many Iraqi exiles living elsewhere in the Middle East and in Europe and the United States.
De Botton thinks it permissible for "creative writers" to adapt a fact or change a date because they will understand that "falsifications may occasionally need to be committed in the service of a goal higher still than accuracy: the hope of getting important ideas and images across to their impatient and distracted audiences".
But the difficulty for theologians and church historians to determine what exactly constituted knowable error during the Crusades, the Inquisition, holy wars, the burning of heretics and the forced conversions of Indians and Africans, led to a more elliptical reference to "sins committed in the service of truth".
An amendment added at the last minute to a nursing care bill, HB 2950, for example, would bar the Texas Board of Nursing from punishing discriminatory actions if they are committed in the service of a nurse's "religious beliefs".
A British editor reviewed the collection and concluded, "with two or three exceptions, there is not a poet of mark in the whole Union" and referred to the anthology as "the most conspicuous act of martyrdom yet committed in the service of the transatlantic muses".
The second case occurs more likely when the coops are more committed in delivering services to the members and in less pro-active in the marketing areas.
