Sentence examples for criminal seeks from inspiring English sources

Ideally, the criminal seeks reconciliation with the victim, too.

He is a walking, speechifying abstraction of African-American manhood, of a son seeking his father and of the criminal seeking redemption.

Based on the novel Flashfire by film-makers' favourite Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake), this handsomely mounted but rather ordinary thriller finds the Stath playing the long game as a career criminal seeking payback for a double cross during which he was left for dead.

In the latter case, she judges an act "right" only in an "inverted commas" sense, as when the unrepentant criminal, seeking a lesser sentence, tells the judge, in a remorseful tone, that he knows what he did was "wrong".

Many are criminals seeking reductions in sentences.

Law enforcement must stay ahead of criminals seeking to hide behind computers to commit devious crimes.

He told the jury that many of those planning to testify were criminals seeking leniency.

Unfortunately, though, it offers an open door for cyber-criminals seeking to hijack computers for dastardly deeds.

Snaresbrook crown court in Essex is generally thought to be the court of choice for criminals seeking an acquittal.

At the same time, security forces stepped up their threats to treat protesters as criminals seeking to destabilize the country.

The children are intimidated into silence by their abusers, and the criminals seek to cover their tracks and stay unnoticed.