Sentence examples for practically criminal from inspiring English sources

But it would be nearly impossible — and practically criminal — to select a winner in that competition.

Some prison consultants say that others are so lacking in expertise that their businesses are practically criminal enterprises.

A former employee of one of the big New York banks didn't spare any vitriol, saying, "There is such a vacuum of serious reading or serious thought to be practically criminal — or at least deeply, deeply disheartening".

He watched the movie "Lincoln" twice; it helped him "deal with 'the negativity.' " "I figure if Lincoln could fight for the rights of slaves during a time when many people thought this was practically criminal," he wrote in an email, "the least I can do is continue to fight for the rights of a few people suffering from the disease and stigma of addiction in my little part of the world".

He hasn't thwarted the practically criminal act of spending an official $75 million to fob off an at-best mediocre musical, a production that is now apparently the dispiriting result of focus-group-think.

Due to the banks' reluctance to grant loans, the system was practically paralyzed, and criminal organizations seemed to have huge quantities of cash to invest that is, to launder.

In 1970 she wrote that some feminist rhetoric of that time "practically accuses you of criminal negligence because you have turned your back on your college-trained mind".

"If the inquiry was not headed by a high court judge then it would not be practically possible to take criminal proceedings for contempt if truthful evidence was withheld".

"It's easy for the administration to say that those deported fit their priorities when this White House has practically made sneezing a criminal act for immigrants.

Such private citizens employed by the U.S. military in undeclared wars had fallen into a legal loophole, practically beyond the reach of criminal law.

Informed of his expulsion by letter, Crawford replied to the committee a final time: "I fail to see why I should practically be branded as a criminal because, as acting captain, I declined the responsibility of skippering a team which did not include three essential players, an independence which I trust will remain in spite of the awful example made of me to every amateur in the United Kingdom".