Sentence examples for level of offenses from inspiring English sources

He insists that anything Nixon did wrong "did not reach the level of offenses for which he could be impeached and convicted".

Yet when comparing youth who have committed the same level of offenses, those who become incarcerated will be more likely to re-offend than those who are not locked up.

French people across the political spectrum had reacted to the remark with a level of offense that surprised me.

Already, a recent change in the law categorizes possession of small amounts as an infraction, the lowest level of offense.

(The word that the women used, "importuner," ranges in connotation from bugging someone to really disturbing her. Whatever the level of offense, the behavior is clearly unwanted).

The governor — who has come out against the ballot measure, Proposition 19 — cast the new law's effect as largely administrative, changing the crime of possession from a misdemeanor to an infraction, the lowest level of offense under state law.

On the grand jury investigations themselves, however, the argument pressed by Milken's retainers was more specific: that the particular securities charges under review, which involved the movement of securities during hostile takeover bids, and communications among the owners of those securities, amounted, at the very most, to a "parking ticket" level of offense.

In a hacking crime, prosecutors can do a number of things to increase the level of offense, including deconstructing a single act of hacking into multiple charges: unauthorized computer use, wire fraud, damaging "a protected computer," stealing protected information, and sometimes even aiding and abetting other crimes.

About that email: I underestimated the level of offense it generated.

Our level of connectedness and freedom to share determines our level of appreciation, and our level of offense.

The Eritrean players declined to return home to the East African nation that is currently under investigation by the United Nations for possibly committing crimes against humanity, a level of offense that can be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court.