Sentence examples for misdeeds like from inspiring English sources

Alessandra Mussolini acknowledged misdeeds, like harshly anti-Semitic laws.

Federal authorities are investigating firms hired to help banks clean up misdeeds like foreclosure abuses.

For years, Wall Street's top enforcers lacked the firepower to thwart financial misdeeds like Bernard L. Madoff's Ponzi scheme.

— The New York Times, May 11, 2003 COULD misdeeds like Jayson Blair's happen again at The Times?

Misdeeds like carrying a fake driver's license that lawyers say rarely result in jail time now can lead to deportation.

As a result of the settlement, state and federal authorities will not be able to sue the banks for possible misdeeds, like robo-signing, directly linked to servicing.

His misdeed, like the many arrests for possession of small amounts of marijuana, has now become an anachronism, many believe, the vestige of an era when crime was rampant and police needed to constantly fight petty crime so major crimes could not flourish in a seemingly lawless society.

In his book The Chickenshit Club, journalist Jesse Eisinger documented how the US Justice Department has moved away from prosecuting corporate criminals; instead of jail time for misdeeds, executives like JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon face fines and a few days of bad press, at most.

The holiday season often arrives with a movie villain, and this year, in the tradition of "It's a Wonderful Life Old Man Potterer) and "Bad Santa," comes "War on Greed," a series of Internet shorts whose first installment focusses on the putative Scrooge-like misdeeds of Henry Kravis, the private-equity man.

Here's a good line from Nietzsche: 'Without cruelty, there is no festival.' "  The holiday season often arrives with a movie villain, and this year, in the tradition of "It's a Wonderful Life" (Old Man Potter) and "Bad Santa," comes "War on Greed," a series of Internet shorts whose first installment focusses on the putative Scrooge-like misdeeds of Henry Kravis, the private-equity man.

Specifically, Moloney says, they are pursuing crimes that are thought to have been committed by paramilitary outfits like the IRA and the loyalist UVF, while outright ignoring alleged misdeeds of forces like MI5, the Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch and the British Army.