Sentence examples for sinister crimes from inspiring English sources

Others, such as his critique of American imperialism, the military-industrial complex and the sinister crimes of George W Bush, are exhilarating, slightly mad polemics whose rhetorical indignation probably outweighs their clarity of thought.

From Buenos Aires to Beirut, from Lima to Kathmandu, their activism has raised the international profile of the issue of the disappeared and helped shed light on these sinister crimes.

When I open the newspaper, the only time I see myself reflected is whenever an Abdul or an Ahmed has committed a sinister crime; my film is a tiny step towards reflecting a brighter world for us.

"Our show is aimed at a slightly older audience," says Cox. "I feel we're making a very smart, well-written, sinister crime drama that just happens to have superhero elements.

In their black, bulletproof vests and black helmets, the team are disconcerted to be getting their briefing here, in the vehicle, rather than back at base: they are to launch a raid on a 15-storey building whose top floor is a drugs factory run by sinister crime lord Tama (Ray Sahetaphy).

The most sinister crime was vagrancy – the "crime" of being unemployed – which brought a large fine that few blacks could afford to pay.

"Controlling prostitution for gain" invokes ideas of sinister crime lords, but often the charge is used against maids and other staff.

Bulger, the model for Jack Nicholson's sinister crime boss in the 2006 Martin Scorsese movie "The Departed," was seen for years as a kind of benevolent tough guy who bought Thanksgiving turkeys for fellow residents of working-class South Boston and kept hard drugs out of the neighborhood.

Child sexual abuse is an issue shrouded in secrecy, an intimate and sinister crime that silences victims -- an estimated 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 5 boys -- with feelings of shame, guilt and isolation, and emboldens predators -- who will offend against an average of 117 children in their lives -- with each new offense.

The attempts that middle-aged people make at rejuvenation new hairstyles, innocent flirtations expand into sinister, horrific crimes.

Bland shots of deserted roads look as sinister as crime scenes.