What's the difference between lawbreaker and wrongdoer?
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.
Wrongdoer
Definition:
(n.) One who injures another, or who does wrong.
(n.) One who commits a tort or trespass; a trespasser; a tort feasor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Like the US government following revelations from Abu Ghraib, the British government wants to dismiss the miscreants as the deviant wrongdoers in an otherwise noble cause.
(2) Calling on Israel to “break with its lamentable track record” and hold wrongdoers responsible, the hard-hitting report commissioned by the UN human rights council lays most of the blame for Israel’s suspected violations at the feet of the country’s political and military leadership.
(3) At the time when he should be campaigning for his allies, he has to sit in the position of the wrongdoer and defend himself."
(4) Most 4-year-olds judged a wrongdoer to experience positive emotions, focusing their justifications on the successful outcome of his action, whereas almost all 8-year-olds attributed negative feelings, focusing on the moral value of the wrongdoer's action.
(5) Like many of those who have been vilified, he seems to consider himself more wronged than wrongdoer; a victim of a dysfunctional system.
(6) International law was being flouted on a global scale and the international community was failing to prosecute wrongdoers, Ban said.
(7) He believes Coulson was right to allow his reporters to invade privacy in order to nail wrongdoers: "Investigative journalism is a noble profession but we have to do ignoble things."
(8) We will follow the facts wherever they go and we will determine whether to bring criminal charges against any companies or individual wrongdoers.” It is unusual for US authorities to seek a criminal prosecution of companies or executives, with prosecutors tending to accept an admittance of guilt, an apology from the chief executive and multimillion-dollar fines.
(9) It has subpoena power – excellent for commandeering embarrassing financial documents – and just enough resources and publicity power to really strike fear into Wall Street wrongdoers.
(10) It’s now a relic of a more violent age, a time when wrongdoers were whipped, put in the stocks or transported to distant countries for penal servitude.
(11) The bulk of NCP cases these days involve mediation with companies that are linked to adverse impacts through business relationships, rather than in which they are alleged to be wrongdoers themselves.
(12) This, together with the recent arrest of a billionaire Brazilian banker , is enough to tell the world that the rule of law operates in Brazil and wrongdoers will be apprehended.
(13) 4- and 5-year-olds attributed positive emotions to a wrongdoer even if his transgression was severe and if he did not gain any material profit from it.
(14) He said at the time: "Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad and this was not fully understood or adequately pursued.
(15) Under this, police can grant powers to civilians involved in crowd control so they can issue fines for offences such as littering, and can require suspected wrongdoers to give their name and address.
(16) A “serpent” and a “wrongdoer who would be condemned for a thousand generations” are among the kinder epithets hurled by mainland propagandists.
(17) Single-handedly, she turned the dull-sounding public accounts committee into the most rigorous scrutineer, excoriating wrongdoers and backsliders.
(18) What if your crime – if it can be called that – is to be born the son, grandson or great-grandson many times removed from those wrongdoers, their acts echoing in your blood and in your name?
(19) In a pinch, if niceness failed, he could presumably instil order on set by fixing the wrongdoers with an unsmiling stare.
(20) UK must do more to defeat Isis in Syria and Iraq, says May Read more “When they say that these are wronged Muslims getting revenge on their western wrongdoers, let’s remind them: from Kosovo to Somalia, countries like Britain have stepped in to save Muslim people from massacres.