Sentence examples for generic crimes from inspiring English sources

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That North Korea should abolish public executions and generic crimes such as "crimes against the state".

It requires all citizens, foreigners and organisations to act in support of the intelligence system whenever required or face jail terms of up to six years".The law establishes vague, generic crimes, which is very dangerous," in the view of Rocío San Miguel of Citizens Oversightt, an NGO.

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"In order to standardize the experiment, I needed to commit a generic crime.

Once in a while, someone comes along and pumps some originality into the generic crime novel.

In a sense, it eluded the conventions of a generic crime story (you could safely describe the police presence as largely ceremonial), its emotional centre shifting, rather, with the workings of vexatious marriages, friendships and parental relations.

When the film, directed by Michael Watkins from a script by David Rosenfelt and Erik Jendresen, moves beyond the unbearably tense jury room, it sometimes feels like an episode of some generic crime series.

The themes of misogyny and moral rot came through so clearly because of the mass of fine-grained details of time and place – whereas the films risk being dressed up as mere generic crime yarns.

The worrying thing is that it's still considered a "generic" crime – namely a crime that can be committed by anyone, even in a context different to that of legal custody, which is where torture mainly occurs.

As Farrell (2013) observes, most of the crime drop hypotheses are crime generic, attributing changes in crime to changes in the number or motivation of offenders.

Despite revolving around a family of murderers, its domestic claustrophobia is hardly generic British crime twaddle.

Following a children's novel, Un Lun Dun, based in a fantastic alternative London, 2010's The City and the City, an existential murder mystery set across two opposing eastern European cities that occupy the same physical space, played with a new generic tradition: crime.

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