Sentence examples for crime triggered from inspiring English sources

The crime triggered a desperate search for the perpetrators and the trophy.

The horrific crime triggered a firestorm of protest in the country like no other incident in the recent past.

They also criticised Proposition 47, a state ballot measure approved last year which reduced penalties for drug and other non-violent crimes, triggering releases and shortening jail time for tens of thousands of inmates.

The South African press is again full of its usual daily litany of violent crime, trigger-happy police, rapists of children, high-level corruption, service-delivery protests, power failures, road carnage, threatened strikes and political infighting.

Mr. Timmendequas was convicted of killing a 7-year-old girl in Hamilton Township in a crime that triggered a movement to enact Megan's Laws, requiring police to track sex offenders.

Mr Sayedee's sentencing for war crimes last year triggered a wave of fatal street unrest.

He said the only crimes that triggered disqualification were "treason and certain electoral offences, such as bribery and false declarations on a form".

Ghulam Azam was a former Bangladeshi Islamist party leader who opposed independence and whose imprisonment on war crimes charges triggered violent protests last year.