Sentence examples for offence considered from inspiring English sources

She had been detained after Muslim neighbours in her Christian community in Islamabad claimed she had been spotted burning pages of the Koran, an offence considered to be blasphemy and which technically could result in the death penalty.

In short, we need to distinguish between the offence considered in itself and the institutional effect of committing that offence.

For example, the provision of information by a corporate officer to an investor that will enable the investor to buy shares cheaply before they rise in value might not be a moral offence considered in itself; in general, providing information is an innocuous activity.

However, the offence is only an act of institutional corruption if it has some effect, e.g., it is performed in a courtroom setting and thereby subverts the judicial process.[14] A further point to be made here is that an act that has a corrupting effect might not be a moral offence considered in itself.

"The offences considered were aiding and abetting torture, aiding and abetting war crimes, false imprisonment, aiding and abetting assault, and misconduct in public office," the statement said.

The theft offences considered in this study are usefully described as 'stealth-crimes' by Smith (2008), an example of this is pocket-picking (also referred to as pick-pocketing) when an item is taken from a victim in one place, and not discovered missing until much later, normally somewhere else.

IRB recommended sanctions for such tackles start at bans of three weeks for offences considered to be at the lower end of the scale, six weeks for middle-level transgressions and end at 10 weeks or more for the worst 'spear tackles'.

An offence is considered a hate crime if the victim, or any other person, considers it was motivated by hostility based on a person's race, religious belief, sexual orientation, disability or where the victim was perceived to be transgender.

The back-rower's offence was considered to be reckless rather than intentional and at the lower end of the sanctions for this type of offence, with his suspension reduced to one week which will rule him out of the trip to Rodney Parade.

The maximum penalty, five years, is the same as that for actual bodily harm, but a section 20 offence is considered more serious by the courts and the Crown Prosecution Service.

Negative comments should not be seen as a trivial offence but considered as an important factor in influencing medical students and trainees' career choices.