Sentence examples for prevent offence from inspiring English sources

Hogarth knew that a theatre designed "to prevent offence" was a sad thing, scarcely worth defending.

The Bricks, Rubbish etc will be real, but the excrements hurl'd will be made of chew'd Gingerbread in order to prevent offence".

Such files are often censored to prevent offence to allies.

Trainers reportedly often avoid giving feedback, in order to prevent offence or provoking defensiveness [ 24, 25].

The action plan will contain measures aimed at encouraging the reporting of incidents as well as work to prevent offences on public transport.

But Gloucestershire Police denies the claim, saying the patrol increase is an attempt to prevent offences, such as cages being damaged, being committed.

Ch Insp Kris Barnard says they hope having extra eyes on the road will help prevent offences and make people think twice about touching their mobile devices.

He said: "It has become apparent in the short time span of the court's existence that preventing offences against the administration of justice is of the utmost importance".

"There are two tasks facing Japan," he says: "getting rid of the elements of old-style Japanese capitalism that barely penetrated the surface, and setting up a system that prevents offences such as accounting fraud a worldwide problem .One of the first steps would be to cut those intimate ties between auditors and their clients.

If either the abettor or the person abetted is a public servant whose duty it was to prevent the offence from happening, the abettor may be imprisoned for up to half of the maximum jail term of the offence, or may be fined, or receive both penalties.

We calculated the diagnostic odds ratio, sensitivity, specificity, area under the curve, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, the number needed to detain to prevent one offence, as well as a novel performance indicator the number safely discharged.