Sentence examples for dirty individuals from inspiring English sources

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In her book, Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS, Cindy Patton argues: "The belief in dirty individuals who leave germs in their wake creates a terror that anyone a little different harbors disease, and has the power to invade the human body.

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The agency's action came one day after a report released by a House intelligence subcommittee on terrorism criticized its 1995 guidelines requiring its case officers to obtain headquarters approval before trying to recruit "dirty" informers, individuals who had been involved in human rights abuses or criminal or terrorist activity.

True Detective 2 in so many ways epitomizes many of my favorite and iconic aspects of the crime noir genre -- emotionally and psychologically broken individuals, dirty cops and dirtier politicians, an evocative score and soundtrack, and so many double and triple crosses the plot looks like LA's freeways from a distance.

With widespread popular support, federal agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency EPAandand big federal schemes such as Superfund have aggressively used regulation and litigation to force dirty firms and individuals to clean up.

For example, in one study, Bob Cialdini and colleagues found that seeing other people litter in a dirty environment increased individuals' likelihood of littering because it provided them with a justification for why littering in this context is acceptable ("If she does it and everyone else seems to do it, it must be fine for me as well").

It also said that calling someone "dirty" – even if the individual's nationality was mentioned – was not against the anti-racism law.

The organisation called for lawyers, accountants and other professionals in the UK who are personally involved in laundering the dirty cash of corrupt individuals – knowingly or unwittingly – to face prosecution.

The true targets here weren't the dirty details and the individuals responsible for them; not those in power, in other words, so much as power itself, its structure.

When Shackleton knocked on the door, the manager, who knew him well, opened it and, as Jarvis tells it, "Before him he saw this bedraggled, frostbitten, dirty, bearded, scraggly-looking individual, and said, 'Who are you?' And he said, 'Well, I'm Shackleton.' " In the end, all survived, though the crew returned in time to fight in the First World War, and many died in the trenches.

WikiLeaks is made of peaceful individuals revealing the dirty work of bellicose governments, which are sure to persecute them.

Each a product of the decade they debuted in, "Law and Order" understood the inherent conflict that existed not just between cop and criminal, but between officer and attorney, and found new complications to exploit therein, where "CSI" gave the individuals doing the dirty work at the crime scenes, who would be background figures in any other show, center stage.

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