Sentence examples for convicted of offending from inspiring English sources

If convicted of "offending religious sensibilities", she faces up to two years in prison.

She was convicted of offending public morality and received 50 lashes in the courtroom.

BANGKOK — It has become almost routine in Thailand for judges to hand down jail sentences to those convicted of offending the country's king.

Mr. Zaidi faces up to seven years in prison if he is charged with and convicted of offending the head of a foreign state.

The law has only been used once to successfully convict someone of offending "the feelings of the faithful" since the Philippines declared independence from the United States in 1946 and it's this case against Celdran.

ISTANBUL — A court here handed down a suspended 10-month prison term on Monday for Fazil Say, an internationally acclaimed Turkish pianist and composer convicted of insulting Islam and offending Muslims in postings on Twitter.

The likelihood of some parolees re-offending after being convicted of a crime is high, he added.

CoSa provides community "circles"—weekly support groups to people who have been convicted of sex crimes in an effort to prevent them from re-offending.

Previously magistrates preferred to give a "conditional discharge" to those convicted of petty wrongdoing, which means they will face punishment if they re-offend within a set period.

Because petitioner was neither acquitted nor convicted of the death penalty in his first trial, the Double Jeopardy Clause was not offended by a retrial to determine whether death was the appropriate punishment for his offenses.

His offending continued as recently as July 2013 when he was convicted of intent to supply crack coaine and heroin.