And, unlike court fines and most other compensation payments, surcharges are applied by sharing out the cost of a misdeed between those judged to be culpable, without regard to how much they were to blame or their ability to pay.Surcharges apply only to financial losses.
Who sent you?" If an investigation reveals a misdeed, most Italians still assume someone is "behind" the exposure.
This time there was no problem of providing proof of his misdeed, and in 1993 he was sentenced to six years in prison; not enough, said some, but at least he had not eluded justice entirely.Perhaps Erich Mielke was himself impressed that his police file had survived through more than 60 years of war and peace, passed on from regime to regime.
It is noteworthy that Peter, an infant during the war, is humiliated by being forced to apologise collectively for a misdeed at the retreat that he didn't personally play any part in.Ten years ago Mr Schlink's celebrated bestselling novel "The Reader" took on kindred subject matter.
But their illusions of divine grace are shattered when a churchman incites a frightened mob to slay the two "sinners" (whose misdeed is understood to have caused the earthquake).
Punishment, the infliction of some kind of pain or loss upon a person for a misdeed (i.e., the transgression of a law or command).
Even if inflicting punishment costs more than letting the misdeed pass, people will happily accept that cost to teach a lesson.
However, when twenty-three-year-old Sydney Provence, a University of Iowa physics grad student, picked me up in her Toyota Corolla at the airport in Cedar Rapids — the first stop on my surfing odyssey — I immediately confessed my misdeed.
Unlike hitting the Alt key, this misdeed could not be committed by accident, and the confession bore real consequences, since cheating violated the university's academic code.
Lilly, unlike her fictional peers, doesn't revel in her clever misdeed.
Another time, after Joe and his brother George had broken their bed while wrestling on it, and then tried (unsuccessfully) to conceal their misdeed by propping up the bed with one of Maria's calculus books, their father announced, "All right, you guys wanna fight?
