What's the difference between lawbreaker and offender?

Lawbreaker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who disobeys the law; a criminal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An “enhanced” CCTV system would monitor visitors for lawbreaking or prohibited activities, the document adds.
  • (2) It doesn't diminish the importance of health practitioners following regulations to point out that this is a substantially different figure to the one in the headline: not 20% of clinics breaking the law, but evidence of lawbreaking found in less than 50 of the clinics inspected.
  • (3) There was a grace period of a year to comply, but lawbreakers now face prison terms of up to a year and fines of up to 1m yen (£5,500).
  • (4) Much stronger protections for whistleblowers might encourage future Edward Snowdens to reveal lawbreaking, but the Obama administration's crackdown on contact between officials and journalists exemplifies the likely response.
  • (5) The congress leader and de facto president, Nuri Abu Sahmain, quickly denounced the rebels as lawbreakers and set a two-week deadline for them to clear the ports or face attack by Misratan forces.
  • (6) If you look at some of these people that are in the federal [prison] system, for the most part, for the enormous majority, these are very significant lawbreakers,” Rubio said, “and I think you can make the argument you need to do a better job of putting more bad people in jail.
  • (7) It is possible that severe criminality, contrary to milder forms of lawbreaking, is associated with elevated self-esteem and extroversion.
  • (8) Of the 229 people detained as part of Operation Dulcet – the huge drive to bring lawbreakers to justice – 174 have been charged with offences including riotous assembly, affray, unlawful assembly, assault on police and criminal damage.
  • (9) It was these decisions that the supreme court on Tuesday refused to review, thus forever shielding lawbreaking telecoms from any legal accountability.
  • (10) "This report … says lawbreaking was condoned and that the company sought to conceal the truth.
  • (11) "Along with this culture of death go all kinds of lawbreaking" he said.
  • (12) Reagan's inattention to detail, and the hostility of his followers to Washington, provided the opportunity for lawbreaking by members of the government on a scale never before attained, and there was an endless train of resignations, arrests and court cases.
  • (13) Erdoğan added that he had instructed police that "we cannot allow lawbreakers to hang around freely in this square … We will clean the square".
  • (14) To get those viewers, the companies are presumably fine with supporting a system in which gay athletes are considered lawbreakers because of their identities, in which a Black Sea resort town is torn up environmentally to make room for an enormous global event, and in which dogs are indiscriminately killed because their presence makes Sochi less elegant to Western eyes.
  • (15) Lawbreakers must be punished but also offered a way out of their present situation, said the minister, who is considering reducing benefits and rights to social housing for families of those responsible for violence and looting .
  • (16) At least one, by my reckoning, is worse: the increasingly harsh copyright regime that has already turned countless millions of Americans into lawbreakers and deterred countless innovators.
  • (17) He added: "Lawbreaking is not acceptable and I hope that the full force of the law will be used."
  • (18) In a country that imprisons more of its ordinary citizens than any other on the planet by far, and that imposes more unforgiving punishments than any other western nation, our most powerful corporate actors once again find total impunity even for the most serious of lawbreaking.
  • (19) On others, most notably his justice departments’s unwillingness to prosecute Bush administration torturers and financial sector lawbreakers , he’s been infuriating.
  • (20) Critics argue that statistics from the Department for Transport and Transport for London (TfL), among others, show that lawbreaking by cyclists is very rarely to blame for serious accidents.

Offender


Definition:

  • (n.) One who offends; one who violates any law, divine or human; a wrongdoer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Existing mental health and criminal justice systems provide social control for some of these dangerous individuals, but may be inadequate to deal with those mentally disordered offenders who were not found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI).
  • (2) But, in a sign of tension within the coalition government, the Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesman, Tom Brake, told BBC2's Newsnight that "if [the offenders in question] had committed the same offence the day before the riots, they would not have received a sentence of that nature".
  • (3) 2) Trebling of alcohol treatment places to match the expansion in drug treatment, and US-style street pastor teams using vetted ex-offenders to reach disaffected young people.
  • (4) The bench rejected the petition seeking prosecution for offending Hindus, saying it was a work of art and citing India's tradition of graphic sexual iconography.
  • (5) On Wednesday night the owner of the restaurant that held the fundraiser said the offending menu had not been displayed publicly.
  • (6) Driving-under-the-influence (DUI) offenders with either alcohol- or cocaine-related problems were studied.
  • (7) The highly critical report brought an immediate response from Michael Spurr, the chief executive of the National Offender Management Service, who said the jail would receive the support it needed to build on its recent progress.
  • (8) But there is one hitch: the four-storey building in Hammersmith is already home to more than 20 voluntary groups working with refugees, the homeless, former young offenders and a range of ethnic minorities including Kurds, Iranians and Iraqis – and they will have to move.
  • (9) In a submission to a House of Lords EU subcommittee , it said: "Most of the stakeholders consulted believe that opting out of this and relying on alternative arrangements would result in fewer extraditions, longer delays, higher costs, more offenders evading justice and increased risk to public safety."
  • (10) The number of suspected or known offenders has doubled in three years to 1,139 in 2016.
  • (11) Therefore, the authors present an update of the changing conceptualizations regarding the offenders and their victims.
  • (12) The authors favor conservative treatment of tennis elbow, starting with cessation of the offending activity and prescription of a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) and followed by isometric and isotonic exercises when pain and inflammation have subsided.
  • (13) The joint report also highlights the fact that bad behaviour by inmates on the prison wings is seen as a security issue rather than something that needs to be addressed by the offender management unit.
  • (14) But I just felt like strangling him.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest America’s most segregated city: the young black voters of Milwaukee There was the barber in Milwaukee, a city reeling from a succession of police shootings of black men, offended by Trump’s claim African Americans like him have “nothing to lose”.
  • (15) The offending organism was gram-negative in one third of these abscesses.
  • (16) In our highly medicated society, correctly identifying the offending medication is often difficult.
  • (17) These findings suggest that judges may perceive of and sentence repeat offenders differently than first-time offenders, regardless of the level of intoxication at arrest.
  • (18) Should workers compensation be extended to provide disability benefits when the aggravating stimuli are ubiquitous, when the employment relationship was brief, when separation from the offending stimuli ends symptoms, or when hyperreactivity can be medically managed?
  • (19) A spokesperson for the PPS's office in Belfast said: "Based on the initial evidence the specified prosecutor in this case had concluded that the assisting offender had knowingly breached his agreement under section 73 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 and that it was in the interest of justice that the case should be referred back to the original sentencing court.
  • (20) She said: “Begging can cause considerable concern to residents, workers and visitors, particularly those who feel intimidated by this activity.” In Merseyside, Ch Insp Mark Morgan insisted his force did not prosecute vulnerable people unless they were aggressive, repeat offenders who had failed to engage in offers of support.

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