General federal sentencing guidelines establish forty-three levels of "offense seriousness".
My race and class put me outside Chubby and his fans' remit, but while the former subjugates me, the latter privileges me: hence my nervous laughter and fluctuating levels of offense.
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.
The city had slightly higher but comparable levels of offensive weapons charges, cannabis-related offenses, robbery, and motor vehicle thefts.
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.
