Sentence examples for confess to avoid from inspiring English sources

As a grad student at Harvard five years ago, Karen Tse drafted a business plan for an impossible dream: She wanted to form a charity to push defendant rights in China, a booming market where political enemies are thrown in jail and suspects are urged to confess to avoid a beating.

"We've been trying to go a little later," Kaye confesses, "to avoid buying stuff".

The deal promises special courts and provisions that would allow for rebels who confess to crimes to avoid jail time.

The populist Uribe and his supporters took particular issue at the special courts that would allow rebel leaders who confess to war atrocities to avoid going to prison, and the promise of a quota of seats in the national legislature for the FARC for the first decade after its transformation into a political party.

Investigations have also resulted in about 120,000 Germans coming forward to confess to tax evasion in an attempt to avoid prison sentences.

I'll confess to sneaking a look at the trailer but I tried to avoid it in case it got into my head and crippled me.

Under the peace accord, those responsible for war crimes who confess are eligible to avoid prison and serve out their sentences of up to eight years with as yet undefined "effective restrictions of liberty".

A debt restructure would have implied losses for the bankers on their Greek debt holdings.Keen to avoid confessing to parliaments that taxpayers would have to pay again for the banks by means of unsustainable new loans, EU officials presented the Greek state's insolvency as a problem of illiquidity, and justified the "bailout" as a case of "solidarity" with the Greeks.

I confess to bookspotting.

Some confess to everything.

Look, I confess to hypocrisy.