(n.) Exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss.
Example Sentences:
(1) Zhang Lifan, an independent scholar, told the Associated Press that the use of offshore holdings by those with ties to officials gave a strong impression of privilege and impunity.
(2) It’s time to speak out, to bring this impunity to an end, time for men to change their behaviour rather than for women to adapt to it,” the petition says.
(3) Drug-taking was, in effect, decriminalised by the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 , ever since when the authorities have deployed the rhetoric of toughness to conceal the truth that we are free to take drugs with impunity, knowing our crime will probably be ignored, or at worst not punished but "treated".
(4) President Obama should use his meeting to announce an end to the US military aid, which is helping Mexico’s military, federal police and other security forces continue killing and disappearing innocents with our tax dollars – and with impunity,” said activist Roberto Lovato, a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for Latino Policy Research, and one of the organisers of the #UStired2 campaign, which has organised the demonstrations.
(5) He told MPs: "I think we can be as certain as possible that a regime that has used chemical weapons on 14 occasions and is most likely responsible for this large-scale attack will conclude, if nothing is done, that it can use these weapons again and again on a larger scale and with impunity.
(6) Latin America delights in Fifa arrests after years of impunity Read more Greg Dyke, chairman of the English Football Association (FA), said that the 79-year-old needed to leave Fifa for the organisation to continue.
(7) Peña Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, suffered a severe reverse in regional elections last month as voters punished the party for failing to crack down on corruption, impunity and brutal drug gang violence.
(8) There are growing questions about Obama’s response to a prominent set of police killings of unarmed black men and children that have raised questions about alleged discriminatory policing and impunity.
(9) For Ali, the Kenyan court case aims to shatter the notion that rape can be carried out with impunity.
(10) Feminists have taken a lot away from men over the years, from their exclusive access to property ownership and the right to vote, to their ability to beat and sexually assault their spouses with impunity and prevent women from accessing higher education or the job market.
(11) "The Assad regime should not make the mistake of believing that it can act with impunity.
(12) We review experiences reported from Latin-America based on literature, contact with human rights organizations and participation in conferences in (Santiago de) Chile and Costa Rica, with special focus on: the destructive psychosocial influence of a repressive society; the development of torture methods; the development of therapeutic methods; the serious psychological implications of "impunity".
(13) The answer reveals much about the state of our world, the limitations of power and the extent to which the liberal interventionist vision articulated by Tony Blair during the Kosovo war in 1999 - of a world in which states could no longer murder their own people with impunity - lies in shreds.
(14) He denied that the country's president, Bashar al-Assad, had been allowed to attack his own people with impunity: "First of all he immediately faces the consequences of declaring chemical weapons that he has always denied having.
(15) VIPs, VVIPs or even VVVIPs – almost all government officials – can receive perks ranging from free housing in listed villas with staff paid by the government, bodyguards who act as personal assistants, free flights, unobstructed passage through airports or train stations as well as a significant degree of de facto legal impunity.
(16) There now exists a political environment where a government wilfully and seemingly with impunity breaks international treaties, and denies basic human rights to the world’s most vulnerable.
(17) The impunity granted to Israel is completely at odds with the democratic will of the people, as the current international outpouring of solidarity with Gaza shows.
(18) Huge numbers have funnelled through Libya, where the state has all but collapsed and people traffickers operate with relative impunity.
(19) Everyone wants to forget that Britain’s biggest bank, HSBC, was caught, and admitted, laundering Chapo Guzmán’s giddy profits , as was Wachovia bank , a subsidiary of Wells Fargo: hundreds of billions of dollars of Sinaloa cartel blood money, handled with effective impunity inasmuch as no one in either instance was prosecuted, let alone jailed – indeed, most were promoted.
(20) It predicts: "As these conflicts and crises grow ever more intense, and as the ruling elite continues with impunity to crush and to strip away the rights of citizens to freedom, to property, and to the pursuit of happiness, we see the powerless in our society – the vulnerable groups, the people who have been suppressed and monitored, who have suffered cruelty and even torture, and who have had no adequate avenues for their protests, no courts to hear their pleas -– becoming more militant and raising the possibility of a violent conflict of disastrous proportions.
Impurity
Definition:
(n.) The condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration.
(n.) That which is, or which renders anything, impure; foul matter, action, language, etc.; a foreign ingredient.
(n.) Want of ceremonial purity; defilement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two other impurities are pyrene derivatives but their acyl chains probably are not decanoic acid.
(2) No impurities in the technical grade ether influenced the responses.
(3) The UV and IR absorption spectra of compounds present in the eluate were compared with those of model compounds that were assumed to exist in the gel as impurities after the polymerization (monomers and oligomers of hydroxyethyl methacrylate, decomposition products of initiators).
(4) Chloramphenicol, dinitrophenol, and impurities present in some brands of agar all appear to inhibit the growth-medium-dependent branch of excision-repair.
(5) The combined results describe the depth of segregation of DMS blocks in Avcothane, the presence of DMS within the topmost 20 A in Biomer, and similar impurities in the model polymers.
(6) An impure sample of PLC inhibited sperm penetration, while a more purified preparation did not.
(7) A liquid chromatographic (LC) method was adapted for the determination of epinephrine and related impurities in intravenous and cardiac injections; ultraviolet (UV) and electrochemical detectors (EC) were used in series.
(8) The determination of potency or shelf life, impurity limit testing, and study of reaction mechanisms are considered as different aspects of drug stability.
(9) Isolated cytochrome c oxidase was fractionated by native-gel electrophoresis in Triton X-100, and a preparation of enzyme almost completely free of the usual impurities was recovered.
(10) Although these are worst case calculations, a consistent approach should be reconsidered to limit the additional effective dose equivalent from impurities to e.g.
(11) As little as 50 nmol of a protein may be quantified and an impurity peak of molecular weight ca.
(12) Not all impurities were found in every lot of drug investigated, and none of the impurities exceeded a concentration of 1% of the meperidine present.
(13) Skin impurities and fatty hair associated with acne were side effects in 22.5% of 378 patients during the first evaluation and in 10.8% of 369 patients at the second evaluation.
(14) The organic solvent soluble impurities exhibited strong mutagenic activity for TA98 and slight activity for TA100.
(15) Following this order the absorbents can be used for purification of human albumin from non-specific impurities taking into account stronger adsorption of albumin or impurities.
(16) Trace amounts of an impurity commonly produced in the synthesis of 1,2-distearoyl-3-sn-phosphatidylcholine, 1,3-distearoyl-2-sn-phosphatidylcholine, are found to dramatically reduce the rate of loss of small vesicles at 21 degrees C.
(17) It is shown on the basis of calculations of energy sublevels of the hyperfine structure that the effect of the geomagnetic field upon the impurity atoms in the volume of living cells should be considered in relation to the value of geomagnetic field induction pulses delta B.
(18) Contamination of cells by impurity atoms that may leach from electrodes was measured by atomic-absorption spectrophotometry and found to be negligible.
(19) Results presented here indicate that N-nitroso compound impurities are absent from the majority of the products tested.
(20) Eight of the proteins (L9, L11, L13, L21, L22, L35', L37 and L39) had no detectable contamination; the impurities in the others were no greater than 9%.