Sentence examples for recurring criminal from inspiring English sources

Congress may have its own set of problems, but they pale compared with the recurring criminal corruption scandals found in the New York State Legislature.

How narrowly or broadly to construe objective tests is a recurring problem in criminal law, but here the wrinkle of assessing legal knowledge and risk strikes me as raising extra difficulties.

Mina, whose previous novels have shown Glasgow's criminal underbelly, continues her recurring theme -- domestic dysfunction leading to criminal violence -- in this psychological thriller.

DuVernay mixes news footage, stats-laden graphics and a recurring visual highlight of the word "criminal" whenever someone uses it to make suppositions about black people.

In another less-than-compelling subplot, Val Lauren (who has a recurring role on television's "24") plays a small-time criminal with a persecution complex and a grating, whiny voice, an odd amalgam of Jerry Lewis and Sal Mineo.

The moral ambiguity of such a society is underlined by recurring scenes of skeptical citizens unable to tell cops from criminals," Ms. Lee writes.

Such an individual, when approached by the police, might just as easily be motivated by the desire to avoid the recurring indignity of being racially profiled as by the desire to hide criminal activity".

So is the recurring tragedy of police agencies unable to deal with people who are not criminal or dangerous, but vulnerable.

Republicans portrayed the Obama administration's handling of the case in the criminal justice system as endangering national security, setting the template for a recurring debate.

By day a blood-splatter analyst for the Miami police, by night Dexter Morgan secretly satisfies a recurring urge to kill, taking as his victims serial murderers who have eluded the criminal justice system.

But the underlying reason for the recurring cycle of hyper violent crimes is a pervasive sense of impunity among criminals and corrupt officials alike.