Sentence examples for innocent act from inspiring English sources

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Intent may make an otherwise innocent act criminal, if it is a step in a plot.

"I don't buy that wide-eyed innocent act on tape," Mr. Burns said.

Writer asks if it follows that an innocent act can be retroactively be made a criminal act.

This was not an innocent act". He saw malice in an intern asking where he would "swing by" for lunch.

Interrogators hear what they wish to hear, and the most innocent act appears sinister when seen through a distorted lens.

He has, it turns out, a great deal to say about government-sanctioned snooping and privacy violation, about how even the most innocent act is monitored and recorded.

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Acts done to give effect to the conspiracy may be in themselves wholly innocent acts.

He finds a world filled with violence, boys used as soldiers and girls punished for innocent acts like riding bicycles.

"The specific wording of 'counsel, procure, facilitate or encourage' will need to be framed carefully to exclude innocent acts, such as rigorous penetration testing of encryption software.

He admits that he gave her thousands of euros at the end of her first evening at Arcore, and tens of thousands more later, but insists that these were innocent acts of generosity.

Even small, perhaps innocent, acts of deviation will be brutally punished – one of Jang's crimes was not to stand up fast enough, or to clap with sufficient enthusiasm, when Mr Kim was anointed leader.

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