Sentence examples for main offences from inspiring English sources

The UK Bribery Act 2010 creates four main offences.

But what was the main offence?

His main offence, it seems, was not to have been broken.

My main offence last week was to interview a leonine Burmese journalist called U Win Tin, an NLD founder.

Death threats have been made against him.Mr Glazer's main offence seems to be that he is a businessman who intends to run United as a business.

There is also the technique of nailing people for what can be proven against them, even if it's not the main offence.

A month later, Yousif turned up at home with papers implying that his main offence was going on anti-regime demonstrations.

In fact they are twice as likely as men to receive a custodial sentence for a first offence, and the main offence for which women are imprisoned is theft and shoplifting".

Up until recently, there was no specific law against revenge porn - prosecutions and arrests were extremely rare, as the main offence it would fall under was harassment, which usually requires a sustained campaign of incidents to be applicable.

He has no need to bow to demands from across the Atlantic and surrender someone whose main offence is tweaking the nose of the US defence establishment nearly a decade ago.

So he stands accused of having encouraged last month's "long march" of hundreds of thousands of Islamists from the port city of Chittagong to Dhaka, where they demanded the execution of atheist bloggers, on the ground that they were defaming Islam.Mr Rahman was arrested a full four months after the main offence for which he was charged.