Sentence examples for extraordinary crimes from inspiring English sources

"Sexual crimes against children are extraordinary crimes, because they threaten the lives of children".

But Cline's fictionalised version forces us, grippingly, to look at the smallness and ordinariness underlying the family's extraordinary crimes.

Exploring why seemingly ordinary people commit extraordinary crimes is the mission of "MugShots," a spinoff from another Court TV documentary series, "Crime Stories".

What Mein Kampf does explain is precisely how ordinary, in many respects, National Socialism was at the time – and how that very ordinariness lured so many people into supporting a regime that committed the most extraordinary crimes.

Since 1985, 55 countries have ended the death penalty or, having already limited it to "extraordinary" crimes (such as those committed in wartime), have now banned it outright.During the same period, only four states have reintroduced the death penalty.

With Acosta's help, Epstein got off with essentially a slap on the wrist for his extraordinary crimes ― a short 13-month stint in prison, which he was allowed to leave for days at a time on work release.

Judge Steve Mosby hailed the novel as an "extraordinary crime novel".

"It is an extraordinary crime that requires an equally serious sentence," a prosecutor, Glen Kopp, told the judge.

"According to the law, corruption is an extraordinary crime, so that's why it should be handled by extraordinary means," Mr. Haryono said.

The upshot, according to a supporting brief filed by 18 states, was "an extraordinary crime wave" that included 79 murders, 90 rapes and 1,113 assaults over a year and a half in 1993 and 1994.

Pfeifer points to the extraordinary crime rates in the city; Baltimore has the fifth highest murder rate for cities above 100,000 in the US (of 37.4 per 100,000 residents) and has the seventh highest violent crime rate in the country.