Sentence examples for mere assault from inspiring English sources

"To shoot and injure people... who dared to ask for six months in unpaid wages cannot be described as a mere assault," the GSEE union said.

After about two years of trials, going back and forth from Canada to France, her assailant got off with a mere assault.

Even then, the conviction was a legal fudge – for mere physical assault, rather than anything sexual – and her harasser was sentenced to jail in absentia, having been allowed to leave custody.

It held that "no mere personal assault or trespass or appropriation operates to reduce the individual to a condition of slavery".

One in five women and one in 16 men in the U.S. are sexually assaulted during college, but a mere 10percentt of those assaults are reported.

Disputing the growing number of women coming forward with allegations of sexual assault as mere attempts at "fifteen minutes of fame" or as part of a conspiracy by the opponent (and attacking the Khan family, mimicking a disabled reporter, insulting prisoners of war) was consistent with this lack of conscience and empathy.

In West Virginia, Mr. Manchin's constituents shook their heads at the mere mention of the term assault weapon, which they consider pejorative.

The remarkably similar accounts of multiple women, who said that Cosby gave them pills that rendered them unconscious or semi-conscious and then penetrated them, tended to disclose Cosby's signature method, which showed his intent to penetrate Constand without consent in that instance — as distinct from a mere propensity to commit sexual assault.

He described the assault as a mere "twenty minutes of action," out of twenty years of good behavior.

This fall, for several of them, Exhibit A when it comes to justice denied is the case of the former Stanford student Brock Turner, recently released after serving a mere three months for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman.

It is arguable that there was once a rule that "mere words" could not constitute an assault, but the case of R v Ireland confirmed that even silent phone calls would be grounds for the charge of assault.