Sentence examples for standards crimes from inspiring English sources

All of the death and injury seemed to unfold within the context of banal (by perverse American standards) crimes, which superficially mapped well onto established national narratives of large-scale gun violence and normal victims.

By American standards, crime figures in Britain seemed laughable.

Nearly all council homes meet decent homes standards, crime is falling and recycling is up.

By Japan's standards, crime has risen too, though it remains low in comparison with America and most of western Europe.

Photography and photomicrography, document examination, ballistics, and other scientific techniques are also standard crime-laboratory tools.

"I felt that the world doesn't need another bog-standard crime procedural".

I'm hoping future episodes don't slide into the standard crime-mystery drama mould.

The Black books are much more like Alan Furst's elegant, doom-infused World War II spy books than like standard crime tales.

For Twentieth Century-Fox, Dassin next directed Thieves' Highway (1949), a standard crime picture about California mobsters taking over a trucking firm, with Richard Conte caught in the web.

What sounds like a standard crime drama is elevated by Wainwright's refusal to paint characters in easy and recognisable colours.

Offbeat and eerie, they open as standard crime stories set in Quinsigamond, a depressed New England factory town where citizens and criminal lowlifes perform to type — for a while.