Sentence examples for crime to prevent from inspiring English sources

Those Acts, passed during Reconstruction, made it a crime to prevent someone from voting because of his race.

Those Acts, passed during Reconstruction, made it a crime to prevent someone from voting because of his race and allowed the use of federal troops to supervise elections.

For sure, though, the marshal was following a long tradition of loosely interpreting the state law that makes it a crime to prevent officers from doing their jobs.

Its work was so bad that the an official tasked with "temple affairs" and the head of the local cultural heritage monitoring team were given pink slips soon after the restoration was completed, and "inspection and law enforcement" groups were dispatched to the scene of the crime to prevent further paint horror.

HOUSEKEEPER ARRESTED Is Suspected by Police of Committing Crime to Prevent Changing of a Will.

Many claims have been made in recent years for supposed benefits of the identity card scheme – from tackling terrorism and fighting organised crime to preventing identity fraud.

Bratton served as Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's first commissioner of the N.Y.P.D., from 1994 to 1996, and is widely credited with changing the orientation of the police from responding to crime to preventing it.

And is it not better for individuals and society to prevent rather than treat diseases, to prevent crimes, to prevent wars?

It must insist that the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association establish an independent process for retaining counsel for police officers charged with crimes to prevent conflicts of interest.

"We need the resources from Plan Colombia, the helicopters and equipment, to be used to combat crimes, to prevent massacres, to prevent takeovers of towns, that they be used against kidnappings and to prevent forced displacements of villagers".

I asked Ashcroft about a central element of his anti-terrorism strategy — a shift in emphasis from investigating completed crimes to preventing future crimes.