Sentence examples for crime equivalent from inspiring English sources

An Brazilian air traffic controller had been previously convicted in the case of a crime equivalent to manslaughter.

An air traffic controller, Jomarcelo Fernandes dos Santos, has been convicted of a crime equivalent to manslaughter and sentenced to 14 months in prison in connection with the crash of a Gol Airlines flight that killed 154 people over the Amazon in 2006, Brazilian news media reported on Tuesday.

In Islam abortion of a viable foetus is considered a serious crime equivalent to that of murder [ 35].

We are driving those species extinct at 100 to 1,000 times the natural rate a crime equivalent to tossing books from the Library of Alexandria thoughtlessly into a fire, erasing the shared inheritance of all mankind.

The 203 downgraded crimes, equivalent to about a quarter of all felonies recorded in the area in 2002, were reclassified as felonies after the statistical improprieties were uncovered during a six-month department investigation, officials said.

Now it can be told: the ending of Scott Phillips's first novel, "The Ice Harvest," was the crime fiction equivalent of a winning home run.

And while the tournament office pool is outlawed in much of the country, it is a crime roughly equivalent to driving 60 mph in a 55-mph zone.

Mr Broughton claimed that in an area with an incidence of 77 to 94 crimes per 1,000 people his street of around 30 residents was tagged with a crime rate equivalent to 400-600 per 1,000.

Darker-skinned African-American defendants are more than twice as likely to receive the death penalty as lighter-skinned African-American defendants for crimes of equivalent seriousness involving white victims.

The restlessly inventive director Ben Wheatley gives us the crime-thriller equivalent of a violently atonal jazz suite lasting an hour and a half, like a Sam Peckinpah movie storyboarded by Ornette Coleman and Sun Ra.

In terms of fighting wildlife crime, its closest equivalent, the National Wildlife Crime Unit, created in 2006, has only eight full-time employees.