Sentence examples for misdemeanours like from inspiring English sources

Crimes and misdemeanours, like ideology, are merely weapons in a power struggle.

We drink to get drunk, and we glorify our past drunken misdemeanours like the trophy skins of a hunter.

Freud wrote a short paper titled "Two Lies Told by Children," which concluded: It would be a serious mistake to read into childish misdemeanours like these a prognosis of the development of a bad character.

But in states like Massachusetts, even a false accusation of crime, or arrest without a charge can mean records will never be expunged, and misdemeanours like disorderly conduct can disqualify the affected person from public service or becoming an adoptive parent.

I was asked on BBC Ulster's Sunday Sequence yesterday if Johann Hari's misdemeanours were like those committed by Jayson Blair, the New York Times journalist who fabricated interviews.

While Bieber's litany of misdemeanours reads like a particularly far-fetched season of Entourage, they ultimately seem to have only helped with his transition from child star to adult.

Reading through his crimes and misdemeanours is like reading a real life version of Boogie Nights – funny to begin with (walking the shop floor in his Y-fronts) sad and nasty by the end (having oral sex while being interviewed).

It was just that my transgressions looked like minor misdemeanours compared with the X-rated rap sheet of their father's past.

When I asked him why people liked him, despite his crimes and misdemeanours, he spelled out the answer.

The sisters, having first been beaten for their misdemeanour, are removed from school, and thereafter kept like prisoners at home, where they are taught to cook and to sew the frumpish "shit-coloured" clothes with which they must now cover their bodies.

This hardly scratches the surface either: the FBI managed to compile an impressive 34-point list of misdemeanours that make Del Boy look like Warren Buffett.