(n.) Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.
(n.) Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong.
(n.) Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.
(n.) That which occasion crime.
Example Sentences:
(1) They had allegedly agreed that Younous would not be charged with any crime upon his arrival there and that he would not be detained in Morocco for longer than 72 hours.
(2) There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
(3) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(4) Recent research conducted by independent investigators concerning the relationship between crime and narcotic (primarily heroin) addiction has revealed a remarkable degree of consistency of findings across studies.
(5) The District became a byword for crime and drug abuse, while its “mayor for life” lived high on the hog and lurched cheerfully from one scandal to the next.
(6) Certainly not ones with young children accused of non-violent crimes.
(7) For me, it would be to protect the young and vulnerable, to reduce crime, to improve health, to promote security and development, to provide good value for money and to protect.
(8) Hebrew for voice of justice, Kol Tzedek was described in publicity at the time as "an outreach program aimed at helping sex-crime victims in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish Communities report abuse".
(9) "It is difficult to imagine the torment experienced by the vulnerable victims of crimes such as these.
(10) In response, detainees – the vast majority of them failed asylum seekers who have committed no crime – waved and shared messages of solidarity.
(11) Anyone who has committed war crimes should be brought into the courts," the BBC reported him as saying.
(12) Russia's most widely watched television station, state-controlled Channel One, followed a bulletin about his death with a summary of the crimes he is accused of committing, including the siphoning of millions of dollars from national airline Aeroflot.
(13) The report also recommends including justice and victim of violence targets in the national Closing the Gap strategy, recognising foetal alcohol spectrum disorders as a disability before the courts, and making a national commitment to a justice reinvestment approach to find community-based solutions to youth crime.
(14) When rates were covaried for prior violent crime arrests, White House Case subjects with prior arrests had a significantly higher rate of total posthospitalization violent crime arrests than the matched control sample.
(15) However, when public disquiet at the crime and social damage caused by alcohol prohibition led to its repeal, Anslinger saw his position as being in danger.
(16) But Turkey prefers to deal with the present rather than admit to past crimes.
(17) Mark Rasch, a cyber crime expert quoted by the FT, meanwhile said recent events have been “a serious and devastating attack to [Sony’s] reputation and image”, and his opinion is played out by a new YouGov poll into the public perception of Sony’s brand.
(18) Religious efforts to address the issue have also been complicit in absolving men of their crimes, objectifying women and doing more harm than good with campaigns that blame women for the phenomenon.
(19) Methamphetamine abuse is increasing and methamphetamine is second only to alcohol as a positive finding in cases submitted to the San Diego Sheriff's Crime Laboratory.
(20) If Navalny is guilty of breaching Russian law, there are law enforcement agencies that can and should prevent crime,” he says.
Lag
Definition:
(a.) Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
(a.) Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
(a.) Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
(n.) One who lags; that which comes in last.
(n.) The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
(n.) The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
(n.) A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine.
(n.) See Graylag.
(v. i.) To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.
(v. t.) To cause to lag; to slacken.
(v. t.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.
(n.) One transported for a crime.
(v. t.) To transport for crime.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the moment we are, if anything, slightly lagging."
(2) Initiation of the alternative pathway by the cryptococcal capsule is characterized by a lag in C3 accumulation and the appearance of a limited number of focal initiation sites which resemble those observed when the alternative pathway is activated by zymosan and nonencapsulated cryptococci.
(3) When cultures were pulse labeled for 15 min and then incubated under chase conditions for 105 min, the amount of degraded collagen attained a value equal to approximately 20% of the amount synthesized during the labeling period; the data were fit with a simple exponential function that had a 40-min rise time and a 12-min lag time.
(4) It is conceivable that DNA replication of RSF1010 does not need the priming mechanism for lagging strand synthesis and proceeds by the strand displacement mechanism.
(5) Supplementation of neuraminidase-treated Lp(a) with N-acetylneuraminic acid (NANA) at concentrations comparable to the naturally occurring amounts of NANA in the Lp(a) protein moiety led to an increase of the lag-phase yielding values which were comparable to those observed with native Lp(a).
(6) A more specific differentiation, as indicated by the sharp increase in GAD levels which was concurrent with an increase in interneuronal contacts, lagged behind the initial growth.
(7) It appears that the decline in plasma IGF-I lags considerably behind the sharp fall in plasma GH levels and expression of hepatic IGF-I mRNA.
(8) This causes a time lag, with money continuing to be taken until the SLC is made aware that the debt has been settled.
(9) The drug-induced effect changes lagged behind the plasma drug level changes.
(10) The first transient increase in conductance developed with very short time lag (2-10 s) after serum addition, while the period between successive transients was 30-90 s, being remarkably constant in each particular cell.
(11) The Bank of Spain estimates that GDP grew 0.1% in the first quarter of this year, ending seven consecutive quarters of contraction but lagging the rest of the euro area's recovery by six months.
(12) Lysine was unique in accelerating gluconeogenesis beyond the lag period.
(13) This pattern is still 2 months off from the actual birth distribution; however, the retrospective data probably underestimate the real pregnancy lag.
(14) For example, after imported mouse dihydrofolate reductase (a soluble monomeric enzyme) had been released from mhsp70, folding to a protease resistant conformation occurred only after a lag and was much slower than the release.
(15) The company lagged "far behind its major competitors, with zero reporting of its energy or environmental footprint to any source or stakeholder", the report said.
(16) The temporal lag varied inversely with the dose and was more pronounced with HA.
(17) This multistage schema would account for the lag between injury and restenosis and the failure of chronic antithrombotic therapy to prevent this process.
(18) The results are interpreted as follows: bleomycin induces chromosomal aberrations that in turn give rise to micronuclei by means of lagging chromatin, main and micronuclei eventually become asynchronous in their cell cycles and mitosing main nuclei induce PCC in the micronuclei.
(19) Furthermore, the rate of superoxide generation decreased after a prolonged lag period.
(20) The hypothesis that a measure of intellectual speed assessed at one point in time would predict intellectual achievement at a later point in time was evaluated with a time-lagged cross-correlational analysis, an application of causal modeling techniques.