Sentence examples for grievous offence from inspiring English sources

After all, Lady Scotland did not claim the housekeeper was a constituency secretary in order to squeeze more cash out of the fees office, as Caroline Spelman did; a far more grievous offence surely.

This might sound like sarcasm, but it's not; it's hard to formulate rules that allow 845 million users to express themselves without offering grievous offence, while taking account of laws in scores of jurisdictions.

On May 29th the Senate removed Mr Corona from office, having convicted him of hiding the equivalent of $4.2m that he should have declared.Yet perhaps Mr Corona's more grievous offence, in Mr Aquino's eyes, was to have sought to protect the president's predecessor, Gloria Arroyo, from answering charges of corruption during her time in power.

After this rebut, Marguerite Louise's behaviour became erratic: she shocked the court by going out unaccompanied, a grievous offence in contemporary French society, with her cousin Prince Charles of Lorraine, who soon became her lover.

It was in this post that he committed some of his most grievous offences.

It was a serious offence.

Sexual assault is a grievous under reported offence with detrimental physical, social and psychological effects on its victims.

Spence has 37 convictions for 62 offences going back to 1993 including theft, drug offences, grievous bodily harm, robbery and burglary, the hearing was told.

Ten people were arrested on the day for offences including assault on police, obstruction offences, attempted grievous bodily harm, and public order offences.

My offences – grievous though they may be – are historic.

In the United Kingdom, the number of actual bodily harm and grievous bodily harm offences involving a knife or sharp instrument have remained more or less constant between 2009 and 2010, accounting for 4%% of violent and sexual offences recorded by the police [1, 2].