Sentence examples for question of crime from inspiring English sources

Then there was the question of crime.

The question of crime statistics is a matter of great sensitivity in the Police Department and at City Hall, which regularly boasts of New York's safety.

"But how many parents wouldn't like to drop their children's home and school into the middle of a park, where they can bike to school, the front door's never locked and there's no question of crime or pollution or drugs?" asks Penny.

An ethnic Albanian man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for killing an elderly Serbian woman in Kosovo, the second conviction in recent days related to the sensitive question of crimes committed against Serbs in the province.

In this way, the questions of crime and punishment are coolly, indirectly raised.

Perhaps it is no surprise that Justice Ginsburg is drawn to an art form so often preoccupied with questions of crime and punishment, of vengeance and mercy.

He has been popular, too, because of his tough line on "security" issues, meaning questions of crime and public safety — his willingness to expel illegal-immigrant Roma was the ostensible subject of our interview last fall.

In a series of rooms, the museum offers a journey through Dillinger's life as the thread to explore broader questions of crime and punishment: Did an early conviction and a surprisingly harsh sentence, in essence, lock Dillinger into a life of crime?

California's fair sentencing law is relatively minor, he added, but it signals an important shift in the way the country views questions of crime and punishment.

Although there was little indication of the attacker's motive, the reported use of drugs and the violent nature of the incident seemed likely to focus renewed attention on the question of violent crime in Japan.

This grisly caper turns cynical in its final act on the question of whether crime pays: it's an uncompromising, even magnificent rebuke to those hoping for some sort of feelgood pay-off.