Sentence examples for scope of the wrongdoing from inspiring English sources

This is appropriate given the size and scope of the wrongdoing at issue".

"The narrow investigation that Attorney General Holder announced today is not proportionate to the scale and scope of the wrongdoing".

They will be barred from taking enforcement action, like making drug arrests, until the scope of the wrongdoing is determined, officials said.

The scope of the wrongdoing is clearly too vast to fit comfortably on the shoulders of the elderly man sitting at the conference table before us.

And the scope of the wrongdoing could be broader still given that many of the companies that provide such prekindergarten services also work with special needs populations in programs financed through other state agencies.

A memo written by Larry D. Thompson, then deputy attorney general, said: "Too often business organizations, while purporting to cooperate with a department investigation, in fact take steps to impede the quick and effective exposure of the complete scope of the wrongdoing under investigation.

In terms of scale, Glen Cove's school system, with around 3,000 students, is just a small fraction of the size of Atlanta's, and the full scope of the alleged wrongdoing — including what forms any cheating might have taken, how many students and teachers might have been involved and whether others in the district hierarchy were somehow involved — were all unanswered questions on Thursday.

The development was a clear signal that the authorities had reached a stage in the case where they had decided to go ahead with some charges, rather than allowing the men to remain at large, and to figure out the scope of potential wrongdoing and terrorist activity as time went on.

"Too often business organizations, while purporting to cooperate with a Department investigation, in fact take steps to impede the quick and effective exposure of the complete scope of wrongdoing," Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson wrote in a Jan . 20memo to federal prosecutors nationwide.

"Given the scope of wrongdoing on his watch, Mr. Stumpf's resignation is entirely appropriate," the senators wrote in a letter Thursday to Stephen Sanger, who is the new chairman of Wells Fargo's board of directors.

Can we so define 'harm' as to exclude purely trivial wrongdoings from the scope of the criminal law, for instance by focusing on setbacks to 'welfare interests' (Feinberg 1984: ch. 1)?