Sentence examples for heinous for from inspiring English sources

Although she was a first-time offender, he said, her crime was too heinous for a shorter sentence.

Ending friendship is nothing new -- people have been outcast or treated as pariahs if they went against the grain or did something heinous for eons.

Hassman gives us chapters of blacked-out prose, a form of omission that suggests Rory has endured acts too heinous for words.

While the offenses may not seem heinous for a war zone, the failure to register weapons or the names of employees is a serious issue for a government concerned about the spread of private militias, the proliferation of weapons and shifting loyalties among government forces and those of insurgents and warlords.

"There's no dark secret heinous wish for anybody to die".

"I find it tragic that they would try to use a very terrible crime, a heinous crime, for their political gain".

These were the startling steps alleged to have been taken by a man seeking a heinous retribution for his 15-year prison sentence.

Most of the 75 were accused of heinous crimes for which prosecutors, who are elected officials, were under pressure to find someone to blame.

In killing a police officer, they say, Mr. Addison committed the kind of heinous crime for which capital punishment must be available.

"But I will say, it's a pretty heinous error for these cops to have gone in and not cleared those rooms".

That is, a deliberate attempt by his opponents to discredit him by committing heinous acts for which he can be blamed.