Sentence examples for criminal ends from inspiring English sources

He further stated that the group which claimed responsibility for the shooting, Action Against Drugs, is "a mix of former republicans who have engaged in intimidation and violence in pursuit of their criminal ends".

Extraordinarily creative and devious in his use and adaptation of materials for criminal ends, he forged paintings by the 17th-century artist Johannes Vermeer and other Dutch masters that were authenticated by experts and hung in museums.

But for governments that take strong foreign policy positions on issues overseas, there is a need to weigh up the political consequences of allowing funds to fall into the hands of groups that intend to use money for violent or criminal ends.

And an infection picked up from, say, a Java exploit such as the Flashback trojan, which is thought to have hit up to 600,000 Macs, can add your computer to a botnet – a network of zombie computers that can be used for criminal ends such as launching a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack or spewing out spam.

It was likely that it was put to criminal ends, but the usefulness of the encryption technology it drew on far outweighed that abuse.

Every day thousands of people and organisations have their Twitter or YouTube accounts taken over and used for malicious or criminal ends.

None would ever dream of the kind of acts committed by landlords at the criminal end of the spectrum.

The retributivist picture says what matters is not that the criminal end up dead, at the end of things, in some way.

What matters is that the criminal end up dead or punished in the right kind of way, at the end of things, because of a particular process.

El Chapo's daring escapes have been seen by many as a source of embarrassment for the Mexican political and legal systems and a sign that the country's officials were easily bribed and manipulated to criminal end.

So a war criminal ended up subsidizing an American "propaganda" establishment, equipped with the latest computer technology, and housing an anti-Milosevic media outlet to boot.