Sentence examples for primary offence from inspiring English sources

The primary offence for which they were in custody was categorised as being violent or non-violent, with a violent offence being one whereby harm was inflicted on another person.

Their primary offence concerned setting one or more fires, but the motive varied and hence we use the term "firesetter" instead of "arsonist" in this study.

The primary and foremost offence committed by Kasab is waging war against the Government of India".

All these offences can apply both to natural persons (humans) and legal persons (corporations), whether they are the primary architect of the crime or supporting players in an organized criminal conspiracy, for example, by aiding a crime.

Removing the primary purpose rule, making racist crimes an offence, the Stephen Lawrence inquiry and the Race Relations (Amendment) Act all required political bravery from Jack Straw and his team.

The amended law will make this in itself a crime – a significant step towards primary rape prevention through giving legal grounds for intervening before a sexual offence is committed.

Their primary aims are both to reduce recidivism in offences and to increase safety in society.

Patients are referred to De Waag by court, the probation service, or the primary health care service because of having committed an offence.

Their primary task is tracking down those who've committed "immigration offences", which they often do by undertaking random raids in communities populated by a lot of foreign people.

To make things even harder, she is required by state law to tell people, when they sign her petition, that signing up for a minority party is an offence which will debar them from voting in the state primaries.

This stated "a person wearing a garment or other object intended by the wearer as its primary purpose to obscure the face in a public place shall be guilty of an offence".