Sentence examples for depraved act from inspiring English sources

They were suspended from duty after being arrested, and Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta, calling the crime "an outrageous, depraved act," said they would be fired if convicted.

Although it is seldom mentioned explicitly, the Vietnam War ("an obscenity, a depraved act by weak and miserable men, including all of us who have allowed it to go on and on with endless fury and destruction," as Noam Chomsky wrote at the time) is palpable on every page.

Mark Schreiber, author of "Shocking Crimes of Postwar Japan" (Yenbooks, 1996) said that while the killing of a child was perhaps as shocking a crime as ever, it would be a mistake to interpret the stabbing attack as more than a depraved act of a disturbed individual.

Secretary general Shuja Shafi said: "This depraved act is yet another illustration of how this group betrays the very principles of Islam they claim to uphold".

Now, meeting him face-to-face, he seems a bit more circumspect, though his anger builds when I ask why he carried out this depraved act.

Not that I had any time to sit and watch the depraved act, to begin with.

I heard someone talking about this terrible, like, you know, depraved sexual act that is going on.' It just felt like, 'O.K., so I've got, like, the woman leaking secret recordings from the Fed, and then I've got John, who's calling me from rural Alabama.' And it seemed like, 'O.K., I'll see what he has to say.' This is why I like my job".

The deliberate sabotage of computers is an act of depraved indifference to the physical security and economic and intellectual integrity of every person alive.

In a 4-3 decision, released yesterday, the Court of Appeals reduced the charges against the man, Larry Feingold, from first-degree reckless endangerment to a misdemeanor because he did not act with "depraved indifference" to others.

If homosexual acts are depraved, as many religious people believe, then long-term coupling may be no better, or even worse, than bursts of promiscuity.

SECOND-DEGREE MURDER (depraved indifference) -- No proof of intent to kill or seriously injure is required, but the jury must believe the officers acted recklessly with a "depraved indifference to human life" when they fired at Mr. Diallo.