Sentence examples for punishable acts from inspiring English sources

"We know that moral credibility suffers when one does not responsibly and rigorously deal with such horrendous, punishable acts," Father Langendörfer said.

SHAARTUZ DISTRICT, Tajikistan — Farhod, a farmer in this dusty southwestern spit of land pushed up against the Afghan and Uzbek borders, said that he had committed a subversive and potentially punishable act this growing season.

Young Taliban (the word means students), who grew up in a society where owning a television was a punishable act, gawked at images being transmitted by satellite from this dusty desert town to New York, London and Tokyo.

Private copies are still legal to own and personal use is not punishable; however any public screening is a highly prohibited and punishable act.

The "hate crimes initiative" would make brutality motivated by a victim's gender, sexual orientation, sexual identity, or disability a federally punishable act.

Self defense is one of many affirmative defenses available under the criminal law, which will, if established, preclude a finding of guilt even if it is proved that the violent, otherwise punishable act took place.

Any child over the age of, say, 8, knows it is not only morally wrong to sign your name to something you did not write but that it is a punishable act.

Vandalism is a legally punishable act and in this case its perpetrator has been duly charged, but in the all too surreal unusualness of this election, perhaps the desecration could have stood to be a monument to our democracy and a historic symbol of the year 2016 and the divided times we live in.

Therefore, the investigation team construed its objective and subjective elements in light of criminal justice notions (i) punishable preparatory acts; (ii) 'ordering' as mode of individual criminal liability; (iii) effective control and command responsibility; and (iv) indirect perpetration as an organized structure of power.

Further analysis, by the International Law Clinic, brings to light that, 'ordering' if considered as a punishable preparatory act, must be consistent with other preparatory acts.

The ICC has no case law on forced displacement or on the punishable preparatory act of ordering.