Sentence examples for crimes to avoid from inspiring English sources

Nor is there anything to justify the commission of crimes to avoid extinction.

He admits to his crimes, to avoid a trial, and is made to spell them out.

Sexual crimes, for example, are lumped in with "other crimes" to avoid identification.

In the 1950s and 1960s the ministry's legal team helped Germans wanted for war crimes to avoid arrest in neighbouring countries.

These orders for a perpetrator to agree a penalty with the victim, such as an apology or compensation, allow those who commit minor crimes to avoid a criminal record.

He thinks that while the slaughter in Rwanda was a case of true genocide, the atrocities committed in the Yugoslavia war are best treated as crimes against humanity and war crimes, to avoid muddying the waters and setting bad precedents for future prosecutions.

Sexual offences are included in "other crime" to avoid revealing the location of victims.

Because Central Intelligence Agency drone operators also kill while not wearing uniforms, the team rewrote the rules to downgrade "murder in violation of the laws of war" to a domestic law offense from a war crime to avoid seeming to implicitly concede that the C.I.A. is committing war crimes.

There are exceptions, however, for cases in which the reporter is himself implicated in the crime — to avoid journalist-criminal team-ups, I suppose.

Which is to say she may have staged the hate crime to avoid being punished.

Which is to say she may have staged the hate crime to avoid being punished.