(n.) An offense or transgression against law; (Scots Law) an offense of a lesser degree; a misdemeanor.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 'extended suicide' is regarded as the most typical and simultaneously most tragic delict.
(2) Main criminal offences were delicts of property, bodily harm and resistance to police actions.
(3) The analysis suggests that: In young people of any age-group the absolute number of alcohol delicts shows a considerable increase during the last 10 years (1965--1975).
(4) Flight after an accident is a typical alcohol delict.
(5) In the majority of cases sexual delicts of adolescents reveal a far more extensive disturbance in their individual and social development.
(6) An analysis of the different delicts yielded as result a clear preponderance of larcency of money, fraud and embezzlement - in comparison with desertion and absence without official leave.
(7) Non-purposive delinquency of toxicomaniacs includes arson, affray, group delicts, agressive violence etc.
(8) Such delicts are committed under the direct influence of psychotropic drugs with the motivation of "harsh play" when the transpassers do not care the consequences of their delict.
(9) In more than 50% the main traffic delict was drunken driving discovered by police control.
(10) The present investigation has been based on the study of 33 toxicomaniacs (average age 18 yrs 3 mos) who had committed a total of 156 delicts.
(11) Based on the examination of 238 patients having institutional sexuological treatment, the author assessed the basic differences between homosexual sexual delinquents, sexual aggressors, polymorphic sexual delinquents, paedophiliacs and exhibitionists as regards the number of sentences on account of sexual delicts in the case-history, the presence of alcohol during the sexual delict, antialcoholic treatment in the past, the number of sexuological treatments received, age when the first sexual abnormal manifestations occurred, the age when first prosecuted on account of sexual delinquency and the diagnosis of the deviation.
(12) The prophylaxis and clearing-up rate of deviating sexual behaviour of adolescents could be favourably influenced, if doctors, teachers and judicial administrators had a better knowledge of the phenomenology of sexual delicts as well as sexual delinquents.
(13) Comparing the results of the individual delicts in 1965 and 1975 there was no significant difference in the level of the blood alcohol-concentration-groups.
(14) It was further examined statements concerning characteristics of the delict and the experimental situation itself.
(15) The author conceives sexual deviation as a mental disorders which in some instances may reduce the imputability of the person in relation to the sexual delict.
(16) According to the common drinking- and leisure behaviour most of the alcohol delicts happened at weekends around midnight.
(17) Criminal acts, such as sexual and property delicts arising from an acting out of inner tension, may occur in anxiety or manic-depressive states of a mixed character.
(18) In the case of so-called purposive delinquency delicts are usually not committed under a direct influence of psychotropic drugs.
(19) The purpose is to obtain a new dose of the relevant drug, and the delicts include, e.g.
Relic
Definition:
(n.) That which remains; that which is left after loss or decay; a remaining portion; a remnant.
(n.) The body from which the soul has departed; a corpse; especially, the body, or some part of the body, of a deceased saint or martyr; -- usually in the plural when referring to the whole body.
(n.) Hence, a memorial; anything preserved in remembrance; as, relics of youthful days or friendships.
Example Sentences:
(1) But a big part of the High Line's success is its planting and landscaping, which is intelligent, imaginative and well considered, in the way it converts industrial relics into a place of urban pleasure.
(2) David, the RSA manager, said the emergence of a communist relic as a 21st century security threat was a bizarre blast from the past.
(3) Governor Nikki Haley signed legislation on Thursday that would require the flag to be removed from government grounds within 24 hours and placed in the Confederate relic room and military museum.
(4) Important evidences were obtained for elucidating that the RNA transcript from the Bacillus subtilis (BSU) trrnD operon is a relic of an early peptide-synthesizing ribozyme.
(5) Edge of the Cedars state park Ruins of an Anasazi pueblo Cedars state park, Utah Photograph: Alamy Utah has a long, colourful history of human habitation, as evidenced by ruins, petroglyphs and relics left behind by the Ancestral Puebloan, Hopi, Ute and Navajo people.
(6) Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, socialist national secretary, dismissed it as a collection of "old relics" from the right of Sarkozy's ruling UMP party.
(7) And now, in a damp-smelling dressing room at Berlin's Admiralspalast, with its flaking plaster and a carpet that looks like a relic from the communist East, he reveals German is next on his list.
(8) Today, it stands as one of the few relics of a Hiroshima that not many of its 1.2 million residents are now old enough to remember.
(9) The young Kaminski went further by finding a political home in a nauseating relic of a party rooted in pre-war nationalist politics, in which he was then active for some years.
(10) The majority of AluI-relic DNA clones contained barley simple sequence satellite DNA and other families of repetitive DNA.
(11) He is seen by many, particularly those outside of Italy, as the only viable option to lead the country among a host of politicians who are either too rightwing, too anti-establishment or, on the left, relics of the past.
(12) It describes an expedition into an apparently poisoned region known as Area X, in which relic human structures have been not just reclaimed but wilfully redesigned by a mutated nature.
(13) As a teacher of entrepreneurial journalism at the City University of New York, I see openings for my students to compete with the dying relics by starting highly targeted, ruthlessly relevant new news businesses at incredibly low cost and low risk.
(14) The Alabama county argues that Section 5 is an unconstitutional infringement on "state sovereignty", and a relic from the bygone days of poll taxes and literacy tests.
(15) Relics of these repeats are seen in the positioning of sequence matches between transfer and ribosomal RNAs.
(16) As a ghostly relic from the building that was needlessly bulldozed to make way for the 1970s library, itself now to be swept away, it is a pointed reminder that one day, given Birmingham council's lust for demolition, this building's turn will also come.
(17) We’ll have a few relics left but, ecologically speaking, the great apes will be gone.” Grauer’s gorilla: world's largest great ape being wiped out by war Read more The eastern gorilla, or Gorilla beringei , is composed of two subspecies – mountain gorillas and Grauer’s gorilla – found in pockets of rainforest in Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
(18) And, of course, there is the Ulster Museum , which houses a diverse collection of art and artefacts, including many relics from prehistoric Ireland.
(19) "This rights a wrong which was a relic of that age."
(20) Cameron ended the day at a rally in Leeds by taunting Labour after it had tried to portray him as an unreliable relic of the 1980s by dressing him up as Gene Hunt perched on his red Audi Quattro.