I typed his name into MySpace, feeling covert and slightly criminal.
McGregor is, ostensibly, the normal one here, a slightly criminal guy who just wants to live a normal life -- and who, despite his love for Steven, doesn't want to have his heart broken and definitely doesn't want to get tossed back into prison.
It is explained neither by a difference in criminality (the English are slightly more criminal than Americans, though less murderous), nor by the success of the policy: America's violent-crime rate is higher than it was 40 years ago.Conservatives and liberals will always feud about the right level of punishment.
Our country is proud of its immigration tradition but insists on deporting men and women who violate, even slightly, the criminal laws.
With his expertise in making vast sums of money, and his firsthand knowledge of the way government works, once Mr Huhne has paid his debt to society he will be in huge and highly profitable demand among the kind of people who would regard evading a speeding charge as slightly less criminal than dropping an ice cream wrapper in the street.
But he struggles to find work and so is persuaded by his – slightly questionably ethnic – criminal chums (one Italian, one Hispanic, one African-American, all bumbling wrong-uns) to break into the safe of millionaire Dr Hank Pym Michael Douglass).
Left-handedness used to be associated with criminality, and researchers are still unclear as to whether and why there are slightly more lefties among criminal populations.
But it was not until the United States government threatened UBS, the biggest Swiss bank, with criminal prosecution slightly more than a year ago that the wall really began to tumble.
"Do you have much skill and experience with criminal work?" Chuckling slightly and shaking his head, Dzhabrail said he did not.
[17] Galton asks slightly different questions: "For most criminal investigations, and for some other purposes also, the question is not … 'Is A the same person, or a different person from B?' but the much more difficult problem of 'Who is this unknown person X?'" Francis Galton, "Finger Prints," p. 154.
The report showed that overall criminal activity was slightly lower in military personnel than in people of the same age in the wider population.
