Offenses

ADAPTABILITY: The problem with most pattern offenses is that the offense must react to the defenses presented by the opponent. ❋ Unknown (2009)

According to the Honduran constitution, which specifies that the quality of citizenship can be lost for certain offenses, Zelaya lost his Honduran citizenship when he incited, encouraged, or supported the continuity or re-election of himself as President of Honduras. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These sorts of strong-arm tactics over what are really small-time offenses is really unconscionable. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Locking thousands of people up for non-violent drug offenses is how the US came to lead the world in the percentage of its people locked up behind bars. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That new form of legislation, most clearly found in the application of lenient punishments minutely calibrated to the severity of offenses, is designed to do two things, which find their way into Bentham's numerous defenses of new legislation to replace transportation and capital punishment with humane incarceration — legislation aimed at increasing the ❋ Unknown (2008)

The new online political journal The Politico reports: "Kerry, Casey Benefit From Indicted Philly Pol's Favors" A powerful Philadelphia politician charged with a litany of federal corruption offenses is accused of illegally using state government resources to help his political allies, including Democratic Sens. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And there's the question of whether the death penalty in sex offenses is even constitutional. ❋ Bill Crider (2007)

The reason low post players are critical to traditional offenses is because quality low post players are able to create extraordinarily high-percentage shots if they receive the ball close enough to the basket. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This can result in more offenses, as the offended person adds more offenses from the actual apology. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The number of people in jail for petty drug offenses is insane, not to mention to the number of violent crimes that are caused by the black market status of narcotics (even prim Ms. Martha Stewart has come around to this point of view). ❋ Unknown (2005)

The game matched the top offenses from the schools 'respective conferences, but Colorado State had difficulty making big plays. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The Boggs Act, passed by Congress at the height of the McCarthy era, specified the same penalties for marijuana and heroin offenses — two to five years in prison for first-time possession. ❋ Unknown (1994)

Certain offenses, as, for example, wrongful cohabitation, are continuing offenses, and the accused cannot avail himself of the statute of limitations for any part of continuing offenses not within the bar of the statute of limitations. ❋ Unknown (1951)

Many people go so far as to think that society imposes such hard conditions on the under half of the wage-earners that the commission of some of the lesser offenses is a saving evidence of strength and manhood, being the protest that a self-respecting man ought to make against the unrighteous conditions, -- the only protest also that some of them have yet learned how to make. ❋ Unknown (1911)

For that matter, the worst of all offenses is the trailed off, ran out of gas, couldn’t miss another deadline ending a la KS Robinson’s Mars trilogy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Dabbous, meanwhile, criticized the penalties, noting that some of the so-called offenses on the books were vague and could be used as excuses to penalize Lebanese media. ❋ Magda Abu-Fadil (2011)