Sentence examples for constitute crimes from inspiring English sources

"The constitute crimes against humanity".

The disappearances, he concluded, constitute "crimes against humanity".

"If offenders' behaviors constitute crimes, they will be held criminally responsible".

UN commissioners are now trying to establish if those violations constitute crimes against humanity.

The attorney general went further: "These acts constitute crimes against the security of the state, as a crime of rebellion.

The attacks amounted to war crimes, and the killings and rapes may constitute crimes against humanity, the report said.

The commission concluded that many of the violations constituted crimes against humanity, and suggested they could be placed before the international criminal court.

"The widespread and systematic nature of the killings, the detentions and the acts of torture -- I felt that these acts constituted crimes against humanity," Ms. Pillay told reporters.

But some observers say that in wrapping up so quickly, prosecutors may not have clearly established how Mr. Blagojevich's schemes constituted crimes.

But some critics say that by expanding the idea of what constitutes crimes against humanity, the court may be moving away from its central mission: prosecuting the worst violations of human rights.

Surely there is someone in government who has read the report on Eritrea by the UN human rights council, which concluded that the Afwerki regime was committing such "gross human-rights violations" that they constituted "crimes against humanity"?