Sentence examples for grave disorder from inspiring English sources

Even the Communist party itself has admitted that period of Mao's rule inflicted "grave disorder, damage and retrogression" on the country.

After violence had run its bloody course, the country's rulers conceded it had been a catastrophe that had brought nothing but "grave disorder, damage and retrogression".

An ex-Scientologist, Mark Rathbun, says Ms Cook once underwent a gruelling interrogation at an internal disciplinary facility, where she was accused of lesbianism (which Scientology sees as a grave disorder).

"It is not in any way outside guidelines as statute allows the judiciary to raise the seriousness of an individual offence after taking account of the harm caused, the culpability of the offender and any aggravating features such as an offence committed during grave disorder". Some sentences handed down immediately after the riots in August were criticised as being off the judicial scale.

She refuses to fall in line with a Vatican rigidly clinging to an inbred, illusory world where men rule with no backtalk from women, gays are deviants, the divorced can't remarry, men and women can't use contraception, masturbation is a grave disorder and celibacy is enshrined, even as a global pedophilia scandal rages.

In 1981, five years after Mao's death, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China adopted a resolution dubbing the revolution a "catastrophe" that brought about "grave disorder, damage and retrogression" to the country.

Sergius held a synod that reaffirmed the "Cadaver Synod"—which had formally deposed the exhumed body of Pope Formosus by once again invalidating all of Formosus' ordinations, thus causing the church grave disorders.

Helene is a nightmare, or at least the embodiment of a certain familiar fear: the bad woman (welfare queen) periodically held up as a symptom of some grave social disorder.

His vituperativeness and obscenity, even when in good humor, suggest to my modern eyes some grave psychic disorder, but even to witnesses he was behaving strangely, drinking heavily, quarreling and drifting into sodomy, a crime that surpassed adultery in infamy.

I declare that direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, always constitutes a grave moral disorder, since it is the deliberate killing of an innocent human being.

always constitutes a grave moral disorder since it is the deliberate killing of an innocent human being". Life, the Pope says, begins the instant the egg is fertilized.