Sentence examples for severe misdeeds from inspiring English sources

In recent decades, with the end of collusion between press and publicists to conceal information, and, with the end of ostracism over personal conduct (except when it's a matter of severe misdeeds involving victims or remarks that are offensive), celebrities' domestic lives generally have little effect on public reception of their work.

More logically, there were 13 steps leading up to the gallows – not a lucky place to be – though finding yourself there was generally the result of severe misdeeds, not ill fortune.

The catch is that whitewashing grave misdeeds, as Watergate showed, can tilt into a grave misdeed itself.

Things could change if serious misdeeds are proved.

Alliance Capital is accused of serious misdeeds.

It seemed to me that the child must have committed a serious misdeed, since Peterson had beaten him with a "switch" – a tree-branch – which of course would have made the blows more severe, by a simple principle of physics.

The hope is that the scandals around the resignations last month of two women cabinet ministers, following minor financial misdeeds, will not prove too severe a setback to the government's campaign to better the lot of working women.Elsewhere, in a series of special economic zones, experiments are taking place to free up strict regulations over farming and other sectors.

But he challenged the censure vote, one of the most severe punishments the House can impose, saying his misdeeds were a result of sloppiness, not corruption.

In pleading guilty to three counts of bank fraud and a count of wire fraud, Mr. Nemazee, of Manhattan, told the judge that his misdeeds began when he was facing "severe financial difficulties".

By that logic, Coombs argued, anyone who leaks information of government misdeeds to the press could be slapped with similar charges, with severe chilling effects on freedom of expression.

The principle here is simple: Bankers will keep committing crimes and other misdeeds over and over, until some of them pay a price that's severe enough to make them think twice.