Often they have been understood as the effects of offenses against the sacred order committed by individuals or communities, deliberately or unintentionally.
If you did, you're either a patriot of the highest order, committed to watching every last second of both conventions, or your television recently broke when it happened to be on C-Span and, ever since, you've been unable to change the channel.
These were crimes of a different order, committed somewhere beyond the commonly understood violence of their time and place.
In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson envisioned a new world order committed to both collective security and resolving international disputes peacefully.
The announcement comes on the anniversary of the day when Harry Truman issued his executive order committing the government to the desegregation of the armed forces.
But the men to be sent here are not the usual burglars and drug dealers; they are sex offenders ordered committed by the courts after serving their prison terms.
In response, Mrs. Del Ponte and the prosecution will try to demonstrate that in the words of the indictment, Mr. Milosevic "planned, instigated, ordered, committed or otherwise aided and abetted in a campaign of terror and violence directed at Kosovo Albanian civilians".
"Janko Bobetko, acting individually and/or in concert with others, planned, instigated, ordered, committed or otherwise aided and abetted in the planning, preparation or execution of persecutions of Serb civilians of the Medak Pocket on racial, political or religious grounds," the indictment says.
Next, it was argued that the Prosecution had not adduced any or sufficient evidence that Milošević planned, instigated, ordered, committed, or otherwise aided and abetted in the planning, preparation, or execution of a genocide or that he was complicit in such acts.
She intended to charge Haradinaj with "planning, instigating, ordering, committing, or otherwise aiding and abetting" the abuse of dozens of prisoners.
Scrambling to speed up the process, the Pentagon has recently begun pumping out long-awaited money and work orders, committing $1.4 billion in just the last week even as a spreading insurgency cripples the ability of Western contractors to oversee their projects and has made targets of Iraqi workers.
