Sentence examples for crimes amount from inspiring English sources

His crimes amount to one of the most extensive corruption schemes by a Connecticut public official in at least the last several decades, prosecutors said.

The prosecutor claims that since the crimes of murder and forcible transfer of population were done against specific ethnic groups which were identified as supporters of the PNU, these crimes amount to persecution.

Overlooking those economic crimes amounts to "a serious dereliction of prosecutorial duty," Pu Zhiqiang, a respected defense lawyer told Perry Link in the New York Review of Books.

They also noted that of the 6,000 or so remaining Palestinian prisoners in Israel, hundreds were being held without being charged while others were held under administrative detention for crimes amounting to political activism.

Regarding "Defuse the lexicon of slaughter" (Views, Feb. 24): David Scheffer's proposal to avoid political conflict by labeling the murder of over 1.5 million Armenians as "atrocity crimes" amounts to an unacceptable diminution of historic and legal standards.

Nigeria has ratified the Rome Statute giving the International Criminal Court (the ICC) jurisdiction to investigate alleged crimes amounting to genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes.

This means that 300+ of Daesh foreign fighters, who are now back in the UK face no criminal accountability after it is highly likely that they committed crimes in Syria and Iraq, crimes amounting to genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes.

The total cost of those crimes amounts to some $114 billion.

Mark Werksman, an attorney representing Gourdikian, said the crimes amounted to mere regulatory violations.

Pierce County prosecutors asserted that Clemmons' recent crimes amounted to a violation of Clemmons' parole in Arkansas, and that he faced years in prison if he was returned to the state.

But until last year, the state never explicitly said which crimes amounted to ones of "moral turpitude," giving local election officials wide discretion to block people from voting because of different crimes.