(p. p.) One accused of, or arraigned for, a crime, as before a judge.
(p. p.) One quilty of a fault; a criminal.
Example Sentences:
(1) No one was convicted of a crime, or even arrested before her death, although the identities of the main culprits were known to police and council officials.
(2) If the leavers are seeking a culprit, they need only look in the mirror.
(3) In the end, the culprit is Burma because it is Burma where there is an issue,” Abbott said.
(4) But no one was convicted of a crime, or even arrested before her death, although the identities of the main culprits were known to police and council officials.
(5) The mean age was 50 years, male patients were more frequent, the predominant area of infarct was anterior wall and more frequently the "culprit" coronary was the left anterior descendent.
(6) Since DES has been proven a culprit in offspring malformations, the burden of proof that oral contraceptives in general do not provoke similar offspring changes is on the health community.
(7) Previously the culprit had pressed her face into the ground, so that she aspirated particles of soil.
(8) In 3 cases with single vessel disease of the LAD, inferior wall of the basis showed reduced uptake of BMIPP despite the location of the culprit lesion.
(9) Director Charles Ferguson made his debut with No End in Sight, which spotlighted the US occupation of Iraq; with Inside Job, he identifies a different kind of crime scene, buttonholing the culprits in their palatial boardrooms and forcing them to confess.
(10) "Not just because it's wrong to expect officers to endure profanities, but it's also because of the experience of the culprits.
(11) The culprits can be easily identified in a dysfunctional Greece as well as among the dogmatists dominating the country's eurozone creditors.
(12) Ischemic electrocardiographic changes were more sensitive in predicting LV dysfunction with culprit lesion location in the left anterior descending or right coronary artery.
(13) Give it back.” A major culprit is de-industrialisation.
(14) Many entertainment trades have blamed the casting of Michael Fassbender in the titular role as the main culprit in the film’s failure to cross over.
(15) The origin of the hackers is still unknown, although North Korea remains a possible culprit despite denying it was behind the sophisticated attack that would have challenged even government cyber-defences.
(16) She puts this down to the common culprits: stress, depression and the mojo-sapping anxieties of the age of austerity.
(17) Sweet suspects another culprit in the gendered, highly sexist toy market is the male dominance at the top of toy and advertising companies, and in Pink and Blue, Paoletti suggests another intriguing idea: that the rise of ultrasounds during pregnancy has contributed to the triumph of gendered colour codes.
(18) "Culprit" parathyroid glands are those typically enlarged and histologically abnormal glands that are credited with causing PHP in a given patient.
(19) But the culprit cannot have sought simply to damage a wall or cause death and injury.
(20) When snipers killed more than 50 protesters and wounded 1,000 on the Friday of Dignity , it was the young who arrested the culprits; not one was attacked or injured, despite the anger and the blood that had flowed in the streets.
Offense
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Offence
Example Sentences:
(1) The strike, which Central Command said destroyed the Isis fighting position, follows Barack Obama's vow in his televised speech on Wednesday to go on the offensive against Isis more broadly in Iraq and, soon, Syria.
(2) New offensive coach Tony Sparano was also a fan of Wildcat packages when he was head coach in Miami.
(3) We all do different things.” She was front and centre at Ashley’s side in footage shot last week by Sky News cameramen, who were also part of the “selected media” entourage invited to Shirebrook to launch the group’s charm offensive.
(4) Such extravagant claims will be familiar to the scheme's architect, Richard Rogers, whose designs for the office development beside St Paul's Cathedral in the 1980s were torpedoed when Charles implied in a public speech that the plans were more offensive than the rubble left by the Luftwaffe during the blitz.
(5) The central hypothesis of our study, then, was that psychotic men, charged with misdemeanor offenses, would be incarcerated for significantly longer periods of time, prior to trial, than their nonpsychotic fellows.
(6) It's not that Thompson isn't a a very good player – he and Steph Curry have been running one of the most potent offensives in the NBA over the last two years or so and he's obviously a much better defensive player than Love.
(7) It’s no good me swearing on a Bible; I don’t share your faith.” Morrison said: “I will do it, Ray, but I think it’s a very offensive thing for you to ask me to do but I’ll do it if that’s what you require...if you insist I will.” Hadley did not persist with the demand.
(8) The mean number of different types of drugs "ever used" was 5.87, and the mean number of drug sale offenses was 4.4.
(9) 18) Dallas Cowboys Last season: 8-8 Needs: Offensive line, safety, defensive tackle, running back Pick: Kenny Vaccaro, safety, Texas Tony Romo often carries the can for the Cowboys' offensive calamities, but the truth is that not many quarterbacks look great when they are running for their lives.
(10) 3.46am BST Here's the instant response from Ewen MacAskill , at the scene of the debate-crime: Barack Obama staged a strong comeback in his second showdown with Mitt Romney, with the president describing his Republican opponent as "offensive" in suggesting he was playing politics over Benghazi and portraying him as more extreme than George W Bush on social issues such as women's rights.
(11) Speaking in Washington on Thursday, the Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, said the offensive underscored the growing threat posed by Isis militants – whom he referred to using the group’s Arabic acronym “Daesh”.
(12) Kurdish peshmerga forces backed by the US-led coalition have launched attacks on Islamic State east of Mosul as the campaign to oust the militants stepped up with three offensives across Iraq and Syria.
(13) Partners to the drug-treated mice showed a decrease in the occurrence of offensive ambivalence and of the element "rattle".
(14) UN envoy Staffan De Mistura halted the latest Syria talks on 3 February, because of major differences between the two sides, exacerbated by increased aerial bombings and a wide military offensive by Syrian troops and their allies under the cover of Russian airstrikes.
(15) Top Gear presenter Clarkson, who has been repeatedly criticised for making offensive comments, had condemned Sky for the decision, describing it as "heresy by thought".
(16) The unremitting assault on Aleppo by Russian and Syrian forces over recent days is certainly testament to that.” In a week of what residents have described as the worst airstrike campaign since the start of the civil war in Syria , forces loyal to Assad have begun the early stages of a ground offensive aimed at reclaiming eastern Aleppo, which has been under opposition control since 2012.
(17) However, the growing offensive against the left by the pro-capitalist wing of the Labour party inevitably had a damaging impact on the LPYS.
(18) In April 2009, he launched the first concerted offensive against the extremists, routing them in the Swat valley in the north-west, before starting the continuing operations in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal area, which runs along the Afghan border.
(19) The so-called “709 crackdown” has alarmed activists and foreign observers who view the offensive as part of a broader bid to consolidate political control by an increasingly authoritarian leadership.
(20) Since the beginning of December, MNLA leaders have been broadcasting their plans to start an offensive, led by the head of the movement's military wing, Colonel Mohamed Ag Najim.