Sentence examples for were used to commit from inspiring English sources

This year guns were used to commit 90, or about 71percentt, of all Brooklyn homicides, up from 64percentt during the first half of last year.

But disputes often arise when the police withhold items that are not illegal on their face — things like cash, jewelry, cars or cellphones that they may contend were the fruits of a crime or were used to commit a crime.

In past campaign speeches and on the debate stage, Clinton has pointed to Sanders' votes against the Brady bill – Reagan-era legislation that imposed federal background checks and a waiting period on gun purchases – and for a 2005 regulation that granted gun manufacturers legal immunity if weapons were used to commit crime.

A newspaper article last week suggested that Mr. Zimmermann felt guilty about P.G.P., but he said the account, which appeared in The Washington Post, misrepresented his views; he had only said that he felt bad that his technology might have been used for evil ends, "the way that the Boeing engineers felt bad that their airplanes were used" to commit the attacks, he said.

They are deploying a novel strategy that the families and their lawyers say could pierce the sweeping shield created by federal law that protects gun companies from litigation and has thwarted countless lawsuits after their weapons were used to commit crimes.

In a 69-page affidavit seeking the warrant, an agent of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the unit of the Department of Homeland Security that did the investigation, said the five sites — rapgodfathers.com, torrent-finder.com, rmx4u.com, dajaz1.com and onsmash.com — were used "to commit or facilitate criminal copyright infringement".

There have been concerns that drones are increasingly being used to commit crime.

"The criminal apparatus that was used to commit these crimes has been exposed".

Their passport may also be confiscated and may be used to commit identity fraud.

In addition much of the money is used to commit further robberies.

"They have been used to commit atrocities under the influence of drugs".