Sentence examples for dangerous instruments from inspiring English sources

"We've been told knitting needles are dangerous instruments and against health and safety policy.

LET'S say you consider America's federal gun-control laws to be uniquely dangerous instruments of government oppression.

One of those units focuses on so-called structured products and securitization, which spawned some of the most dangerous instruments of the financial collapse.

Prosecutors have found that courts will allow broad latitude for classifying ordinary objects as dangerous instruments, depending on the context in which they are used.

In New York, the penal code explicitly lists many items — cane sword, chuka stick, kung fu star — as deadly weapons alongside a gun, a knife and "other dangerous instruments".

Yes, standards became so lax that buyers didn't have to put money down or prove their income, and financial firms developed dangerous instruments that packaged and sliced up loans, then magnified their bets with more borrowed money.

Calling credit derivatives "the most dangerous instrument yet," Mr. Mayer concluded in his article that neither banks nor bank examiners have any idea how to handle them.

"Credit is not just a benefit; it is also a dangerous instrument," said Margot Saunders, a managing attorney at the National Consumer Law Center in Washington.

Level III offenses include possession of a "dangerous instrument," including knives under three inches in length, and more serious offenses like assault, arson or drug possession.

The grand jury, according to the indictment, voted the three second-degree assault counts to include charges under three different theories: that he assaulted Ms. Giraldo with intent to cause serious physical injury; that he assaulted her with a dangerous instrument, the glass, with intent to cause physical injury; and that he recklessly caused serious physical injury with a dangerous instrument.

"It is impossible to sustain the argument that a German shepherd dog," the court wrote, "is includable in the statutory definition of the term 'deadly weapon.' " It did, however, find that the dog qualified as a dangerous instrument.