Sentence examples for returning to commit from inspiring English sources

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As a forager, an offender makes a trade-off between the rewards of crime commission that are most obvious and immediately available (i.e., returning to commit a repeat), and the effort and risks that will be expended in seeking better opportunities.

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But he denied that he had returned to commit the rape.

"E.T.A. has returned to commit a brutal attack," Deputy Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said at a news conference.

The claim appears to crystallise fears that Europeans who travel to fight with Isis in Syria and Iraq could return to commit atrocities at home.

The former was a war "where we shove them from one position to another," whereas in the latter "we surround them" and kill all the foreign fighters, so that they cannot return to commit acts of terrorism in their home countries.

A newscaster sombrely explains, "People who have recently died have been returning to life and committing acts of murder".

How do we stop people from joining jihadist groups and how do we prevent fighters returning to Europe from committing terrorists attacks?

That fear that they could return to Britain to commit terrorist acts lies behind the proposed new powers that would make it easier for police and intelligence agencies to seize passports.

Lt. Mark D. Starling of the Police Department in Columbus, Ga., said Mr. Lee then apparently returned to Georgia, committing a double rape and stealing a car in Columbus.

After her experience interning at the EPA after her first year at Harvard, Selin returned to campus, committed to studying the ways in which science can be used to influence and inform international decision-making.

"There are many professions that people cannot return to after committing this sort of crime and football must be one of them," he said.

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