Sentence examples for exist as a crime from inspiring English sources

"Until 10 years ago, aggression against women did not exist as a crime in Guatemala.

"Now under English law, mafia conspiracy does not exist as a crime," David Willey said.

"Legally speaking," said José Luis Carranza, a lawyer in Mexico City who specializes in animal rights, "pet kidnapping does not exist as a crime.

Rape of minors still exists as a crime, but men are using this legal loophole to get off lightly, they say, paying off or intimidating a victim's parents to agree the sex was consensual or commercial.

The "hate crime" the protesters wish me to prosecute does not exist as a stand-alone offense in Louisiana law.

But a federal judge, Brett Kavanaugh, today overturned the conviction because the crime of "material support" had not existed as a war crime when Mr. Hamdan was arrested, charged, and recharged.

Israel's Knesset plenum has also given initial approval to a bill that would make it a crime to publicly deny Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state, punishable by up to a year in prison.

"They exist as a sample".

" 'Duplicity' could only exist as a movie".

Naïveté can exist as a virtue.

"I ceased to exist as a poet".