Sentence examples for license to commit from inspiring English sources

Will it be silly Zillah, who uses marital abandonment as a license to commit bigamy?

It also makes its point that war is waged mostly by men who, international laws notwithstanding, assume they have license to commit casual atrocities.

"When you demonize a population, some people take that as a license to commit violence," said Heidi Beirich, director of the Intelligence Project at SPLC, which tracks hate crimes.

The messianism of the settlers, like the messianism of Hamas, is the triumph of expediency: people who believe that God has given them a mission have granted themselves license to commit terrible sins.

License to commit such crimes has not yet been granted to those individuals whose respect for American law and the traditional bonds of parent and child have been undermined by their fanatical hatred of Fidel Castro.

One of Bulger's boyhood acquaintances was an F.B.I. agent named John Connolly, who in the 1970's struck a devil's deal with the two crooks; in exchange for information about the Italian mob, these crime lords were given a license to commit any crime "short of murder," including extortion, assault, drug dealing and loan sharking.

"What the state is doing, in actuality, is issuing licenses to commit a felony," Kleiman says.

"What the state is doing, in actuality, is issuing licenses to commit a felony," Mark Kleiman, a professor of public policy at U.C.L.A. and a drug-policy analyst, told Patrick Radden Keefe for "Buzzkill," a piece that ran in this magazine in November.

(Davis 1993 challenges this framing of the advantage gained, suggesting the right test is the value a crime would find at an auction of licenses to commit crimes; Shafer-Landau 1996: 303 rejects this solution as equally implausible).

Those bidding for the licenses had to commit to spending at least five hundred million dollars, and to building a hotel.

John Hagerty, a spokesman for the criminal justice division, said that the licenses were sometimes used to commit other crimes, including identity fraud, in which licenses created with information from legal drivers was used with other documents to purchase or lease expensive cars.