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Example sentences for "crime against"

  • Consequently, a crime against God is a demonstrated impossibility.

  • Blasphemy is also a crime against God, but nothing can be more absurd than a crime against God.

  • No crime against one's self or against society can be greater than this.

  • The state condemns both as a crime against itself, the church as a sin against heaven.

  • The killing of a United States marshal carrying a writ of arrest for an election offense is full of prompting and suggestion to men who are pursued by a city marshal for a crime against life or property.

  • Such desertion of duty on our part would be a crime against humanity.

  • Wherever they may be lost, it is the people who suffer and the soldiers who die, with the knowledge and the conviction that our military policy is a crime against life, a crime against property, and a crime against liberty.

  • What a sin against God, what a crime against humanity, did these Massachusetts legislators vote to perpetuate!

  • You are not satisfied with our silence, our inaction; you say that we want to perpetuate a crime against humanity, and have departed from the lesson of wisdom inculcated by our ancestors.

  • At length, on May 19th and 20th, Mr. Sumner delivered his fierce philippic on the "Crime against Kansas.

  • S: And they have a crime against me, therefore I fear that they may slay me.

  • P: And they have a crime against me, so I fear that they will kill me.

  • Canada was "the height of nonsense, and almost a crime against civilization.

  • Once more, Tristran de Kerival, I tell you that this duel is a crime; a crime against me, a crime against Mme.

  • Marquise, a crime against your daughters, and a crime against.

  • If a foreigner commits a crime against a foreigner of another nationality, he is generally tried in the consular court of the injured foreigner.

  • If a foreigner commits a crime against a native, he is generally tried in the consular court of his state.

  • If a native commits a crime against a foreigner, he is generally tried in the local court.

  • Dickens always thought it a crime against childhood to punish a child by robbing it of any of its natural rights to food, or fresh air, or free exercise.

  • She tried in every possible way to lower his opinion of himself, which is a crime against childhood.

  • When this book was written Dickens was beginning to get the conception of the great truth, which he illustrated at length in Hard Times and other works, that it is a crime against a child to rob it of its childhood.

  • It is a crime against a child to rob it of its childhood.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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