Sentence examples for line offences from inspiring English sources

Lawyers and campaigners claim convictions may be "unsafe" and politically motivated, particularly for picket line offences where miners were threatened with prison sentences but offered less severe punishments if they accepted bail conditions that prohibited them from picketing.

They say that the vast majority of arrests were politically motivated – particularly those for picket-line offences, for which miners were threatened with custodial sentences but offered less severe punishment if they accepted bail conditions that prohibited them from picketing.

Pfleger says he is deeply worried that "guns have become a first line of offence in how we handle our problems in America".

Mr Obama drew on a sporting analogy: "This is more like basketball than [American] football," he said, "…there's no clear line between offence and defence".In this section Rolling into town Good tech,bad tech Divide and rue Reconstruction Freedom fighter A grand celebration ReprintsIn the corporate world digital defences are being overwhelmed alarmingly often.

I was and am still more than prepared to accept a sanction that is in line with the offence.

When he said the line: 'O my offence is rank it smells to heaven, It hath the primal eldest curse upon't,' they gasped in the audience.

That, Reece said, is also not out of line with other serious offences.

MPs and campaign groups are urging the Government to make it illegal to publish the names and identifying details of victims of revenge porn, in line with other sex offences.

Those in support of disqualifications add that this would bring the whip rules into line with other riding offences, whereby a breach of the rules that gains an unfair advantage can lead to a change in the result.

The move brings careless driving offences into line with the penalties for similar non-motoring fixed penalties.

If the line separating freedom and offence is crossed, the person will have to face the consequences," he added.