Sentence examples for in the act of committing from inspiring English sources

The officers said they were acting in self-defense, firing on two men in the act of committing an armed robbery.

"It is fascinating because it catches a high ranking politician in the act of committing intellectual suicide," said Texas Monthly.

Since the officers observed McDonald in the act of committing an offense, they were under a duty then and there to arrest him.

Along the way, especially in high-crime neighborhoods, cops stopped people not just in the act of committing minor crimes but also for suspicious behavior.

After that case, the state enacted a far narrower provision: It is illegal to wear a mask in the act of committing a crime.

Confronted, eventually, with the security videotape showing Molly alone near the scene of the crime, if not actually in the act of committing it, Senator Prague was shocked and contrite.

He was caught in the act of murder, but does not remember committing the crime.

A preemptive petition to the White House has received over 8,000 signatures in hopes of winning Snowden a pardon for any crimes committed in the act of his whistleblowing.

It added: "The majority of the claims in this case originate from an incident [which] involved violent intruders who invaded the mine in the course of committing criminal acts.

You should also inform him that in the process of committing this unethical act, you uncovered something problematic and that you want to talk about it.

But in its verdicts, the jury clearly rejected the government's effort to have Nichols considered an equal partner with Timothy J. McVeigh in the worst act of terrorism committed on U.S. soil.