Sentence examples for past offences from inspiring English sources

The MoJ said there would be no historical limit in relation to past offences.

Should it try to wrest control away from difficult businessmen, and invest time and energy in searching for past offences?

In the debriefing, the supergrasses have to admit all their past offences and be honest about their lives.

The crown outlined Philpott's past offences, which the judge said she would take into account in deciding how long the sentences should be.

About 2,000 England football fans have been issued with banning orders to block their travel to France, due to past offences.

Thousands of diehard opponents of her elder brother Thaksin Shinawatra, himself a former prime minister, took to the streets of Bangkok on August 7th to protest against a bill that could grant Mr Thaksin an amnesty for past offences and open up the possibility of his return from exile.

Hikmet Sami Turk, the former justice minister who helped to draft these new laws, says they expunged Mr Erdogan's past offence.

Mumbai's English speakers – for the most part members of an Indian intellectual elite – are much more likely to use the old name of Bombay than their British counterparts, who may be overcompensating for past offence.

But it is far more likely that someone in this situation takes the past offence seriously, struggles to accept it, but is able to give his or her partner a second chance.

The picaresque fragments of a much longer narrative, the Satyricon provides us with timeless bawdiness, shockingly rude still, as the narrator Encolpius (whose name roughly translates as "groin" or "crotch") suffers endless mishaps while also under the curse of impotence, as delivered for some unknown past offence against the god Priapus.

At present, there are five of them at work, and they have been invoked in the past for offences as small as snorting cocaine in a night club.