Use "misdemean" in a sentence

1. The court of king's bench, instituted for the trial of criminal causes only, took cognizance of civil suits; the plaintiff pretending that the defendant, in not doing him justice, had been guilty of some trespass or misdemeanour

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2. “A knife is a misdemeanour

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3. Despite evading responsibility’s being only a misdemeanor for which a summons “served” by mail was appropriate, a trooper, recognizing Mike’s name, as a “local bad guy”, took it upon himself to drive to the condo where he broke through a locked door when no one answered his knock and shout, and found Mike in deep sleep in the bedroom

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4. This caused the ASA to stick with a charge of Assault upon a Police Office, Mike coughed phlegm onto Burns’ shoe and pants cuff while handcuffed on his belly after being excessively pepper sprayed, in lieu of the original misdemeanor charge of INTERFERING with a police officer

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5. Mike was initially charged with a felony, burglary, for supposedly attempting to steal the GPS from the car in which he was found, and numerous related misdemeanors

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6. , eventually pled the burglary charge away, accepting two misdemeanors of criminal mischief and criminal trespass

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7. For 6 months DOC pigheadedly, and wrongly asserted that Mike’s sentence of 4 years suspended after 18 months did not start running until after his 2/9/11 sentencing on the two misdemeanors from June 2010

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8. They feel that such an offense is beyond their authority as parents, and they have formally charged her with misdemeanor mischief and creating a disturbance

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9. This is why they are not punished for their misdemeanors

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10. After weeks of agony, they decide to give their first born up, adopting him out, hoping to restart their family unblemished by the sins and misdemeanors of their past, with a new baby more adaptable to the American standard of perfection

11. Since he took on the case for Sam he had turned a blind eye to many of the small misdemeanours Todd had carried out but he instinctively knew that whatever Todd was about to do would be a big step over the line

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12. Depending on the state, a person charged with criminal child abandonment faces a wide range of penalties and sentencing options, depending on whether the state makes it a felony or misdemeanor

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13. Often, aggravated assaults qualify as felonies, while simple assaults can be misdemeanors

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14. For example, a third degree theft might be a misdemeanor involving property with a relatively low market value

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15. Depending on state law and factors including the value of items shoplifted, it may be charged as an infraction, a misdemeanor or a felony, and may result in incarceration, probation and/or a fine

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16. The solicitation charge can be enhanced by solicitation of prostitution to a minor, which will often result in the misdemeanor charge becoming a felony

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17. In many states, statutory rape is a felony only if one of the participants (usually a male) is at least three years older than the other; otherwise, it is a misdemeanor

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18. In other states, they shift the offense to a lower level, such as a misdemeanor

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19. Statutory rape is a state sex crime that can be charged as a felony or misdemeanor offense and may be punishable by incarceration, fine, probation, and/or registry as a sex offender, depending on the state and circumstances of the incident

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20. For example, in some states sexual relations with someone less than 12 or 14 years old constitutes a first degree felony, while sex with someone older but still below the age of consent, might be a misdemeanor or lower level felony

21. misdemeanours had been halted at seventeen million and Peter Forder was

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22. exactly the same misdemeanour

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23. It’s a behavioral pattern with many, in that having committed an indiscretion in the first place; they tend to assume an aggressive posture to provoke an argument, as though to obliterate the origins of their misdemeanor that led to the ordeal

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24. As he cursed himself for his misdemeanor, his craving for her pardon was accentuated

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25. “The first world was destroyed as a punishment for human misdemeanors, by an all-consuming fire that came from above and below

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26. But think about this—if one can get fined for public nudity and indecent exposure by urinating in public, what harm would it do to allow localities to issue misdemeanor fines for a range of behaviors considered by a reasonable person to be indecent? That is probably the best we can do here, but it does mean that communities who strongly believe in sex and sexuality as a private matter can fine those who go outside the line

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27. He recalled the bitterness of that day when the officer punished him severely for a misdemeanour he had committed

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28. On the other hand, if I overlooked their misdemeanours, I would lose my position of high standing with the people of this area as a representative of justice and law

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29. Thereupon Officer Sheikho smiled and said that as they had forgiven the guilty man, he, as a representative of the government would overlook the other man’s misdemeanour of swearing at the government, for their sake

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30. Whatever her misdemeanours, they had been enough to jump the line ahead of her hapless fellow detainees

31. If it started with the flowing stream lapping the Leafies’ armpits it would only take three or four misdemeanours and his head would be under the water and he would drown

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32. Now, only minor misdemeanours such as street mugging, burglary, rape and murder are untouched by the new broom that sweeps through the British Police force and we can all feel a lot safer in our beds that Pc Plod is out there nicking all the evil motorists before they slaughter us in our own homes

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33. It is perhaps now official Police policy to wear down criminals into confessing their misdemeanours by boring them to the point of distraction

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34. They could probably -get him on some business misdemeanour- not filling in the designated forms, as the government required or some other technical offence

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35. It all made good copy and a pleasant change from writing about council misdemeanours and incompetence

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36. Simon suspected that Yo viewed the current situation as karma for his previous misdemeanours

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37. are taken by the offender to rectify the behaviour that leads to the misdemeanours

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38. of the misdemeanours would be that the distance to one's objectives is perceived to be much

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39. the reader that any advantage coming from committing such misdemeanours will always be

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40. misdemeanors by an all-consuming fire that came from above

41. In my country alone of all the states only 11 of them consider polygamous relationships as a misdemeanor offence the rest of the country it’s either a felony or completely outlawed

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42. The only way he could do that; was to prosecute Capone on a slight misdemeanor: the charge of tax evasion… and then give him a life sentence for it?

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43. [20] I worked with a group of convicted misdemeanor offenders in a life skills diversion program

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44. � Instead of my working twelve hours with participants, I would charge them the fee, hit them two or three times with a two by four, depending on the severity of the misdemeanor, tell them not to do that again, and send them home

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45. Correction of any type of sex misdemeanor requires insight, forbearance, a vast amount of emotional poise, and an understanding of contributing causes

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46. [The above is a manly and handsome acknowledgment of past misdemeanors

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47. Leandra's youth furnished an excuse for her fault, at least with those to whom it was of no consequence whether she was good or bad; but those who knew her shrewdness and intelligence did not attribute her misdemeanour to ignorance but to wantonness and the natural disposition of women, which is for the most part flighty and ill-regulated

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48. Poor Jo looked abashed, and silently chafed the end of her nose with the stiff handkerchief, as if performing a penance for her misdemeanors

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49. “You’ll see; there are so many postings telling how having one or two, and even more, misdemeanors have caused these people so many problems in life

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50. There’s one short story that comes to mind of an individual who pled guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge fifteen years ago

51. The next thing he knows he’s arrested; in order to get out of jail, make it to the his present place of work, and avoid problems that probably would arise at his future place of employment, he pleads guilty to a misdemeanor assault, hoping to avoid possible future problems

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52. “My point is this: Here’s this guy, who may have done nothing, and is branded for life convicted of misdemeanor assault; in today’s day and age? Please, have fun seeking a highly compensated position

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53. When our citizens commit crimes or misdemeanors in other countries, they still have protective rights that can be worked out by cooperating with the nation involved

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54. In cases of lesser crimes or misdemeanors, the defendant is frequently offered a choice between a trial by judge and a trial by jury

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55. The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors

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56. Did I tell you as I was tried, alone, for misdemeanor, while with Compeyson?"

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57. The trumped up misdemeanour was due to a momentary aberration of heredity, brought on by hallucination, such familiarities as the alleged guilty occurrence being quite permitted in my client's native place, the land of the Pharaoh

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58. He was, I understand, at one time a firstclass misdemeanant in Glencree reformatory

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59. But as for that the two misdemeanants, wrapped up as they largely were in one another, could safely afford to ignore it as they very largely did till the matter was put in the hands of a solicitor who filed a petition for the party wronged in due course

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60. Heretofore, the mother, while loving her child with the intensity of a sole affection, had schooled herself to hope for little other return than the waywardness of an April breeze; which spends its time in airy sport, and has its gusts of inexplicable passion, and is petulant in its best of moods, and chills oftener than caresses you, when you take it to your bosom; in requital of which misdemeanors, it will sometimes, of its own vague purpose, kiss your cheek with a kind of doubtful tenderness, and play gently with your hair, and then be gone about its other idle business, leaving a dreamy pleasure at your heart

61. So we ended up allowing Laws to plead guilty to misdemeanor assault, with a year in prison, and that’s where I went wrong

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62. This was the same Jeanie Tirlet that was transported for some misdemeanour, after making both Glasgow and Edinburgh owre het to hold her

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63. Accordingly, when the two angry men had sat back in their seats, bleached in the face with passion, and panting and out of breath, I rose up in my chair at the head of the table, and with a judicial solemnity addressed the council, saying, that what we had witnessed was a disgrace not to be tolerated in a Christian land; that unless we obtained indemnity for the past, and security for the future, I would resign; but in doing so I would bring the cause thereof before the Fifteen at Edinburgh, yea, even to the House of Lords at London; so I gave the offending parties notice, as well as those who, from motives of personal friendship, might be disposed to overlook the insult that had been given to the constituted authority of the king, so imperfectly represented in my person, as it would seem, by the audacious conflict and misdemeanour which had just taken place

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64. JRA hustles the misdemeanor courts in a dozen southern states

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65. When Warren had a chance to run his name, I was pretty sure he’d be looking at a long sheet littered with misdemeanors and outstanding warrants

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66. From time to time d'Urberville exhibited a sort of fierce distress at the sight of the tramping he had driven her to undertake by his misdemeanour

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67. Garth, with whom speaking evil of dignities was a high misdemeanor

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68. The statement was passed on until it had quite lost the stamp of an inference, and was taken as information coming straight from Garth, so that even a diligent historian might have concluded Caleb to be the chief publisher of Bulstrode's misdemeanors

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69. What nasty surprise could one suffer? The reality in the stock market is that a small proportion of shares will always suffer scandalously from all sorts of misdemeanours and felonies and you just can’t tell when they might strike

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70. No quarter, war to the death! a pretty woman is a casus belli; a pretty woman is flagrant misdemeanor

71. Up to this point it was merely an affair of a misdemeanor

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72. To climb a wall, to break a branch, to purloin apples, is a mischievous trick in a child; for a man it is a misdemeanor; for a convict it is a crime

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73. He says, ‘Trespassing ain’t a crime and ain’t a misdemeanor

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74. This day Thomas Fittz Marchant being convented before the Board for a notorious misdemeanor in imbeseling and conveying away certaine Beavor skins, out of a Warehouse wherein they were deposited by way of sequestration under lock hung on by order of the Court of Admiralty, was after examination taken of his Carriage therein, committed 13/1425to the prison of the Fleete, and it was further ordered, that the examinations taken before the Board, should be transmitted to Master Atturney Generall, who after perusall of them is hereby prayed and required to take strickt examination of the business, aswell to discover who were actors or Abettors anie way in conveying away the said goods, as to whose hands anie parte of the same either in specie or anie parte of the moneyes ariseing upon the sale of them, are come, and how the same hath bin imployed, or disposed of, and by whose direction with all such other circumstances as he shall finde requisit touching the same, and that the Messinger who hath the said Fitz in custodie doe forthwith carry him before Mr

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75. de Cane a subject of the French Kings and Thomas Pittz and others English Merchants Adventurers to Canada, and upon consideration had in particuler of the great contempt and affront of all authoritie and Justice shewed by the said Fittz, whereunto also it is to be presumed that the rest of his partners were privie and Abettors, It was thought fit and ordered that his Majesties Atturney Generall doe proceede in Starr Chamber against the said Fittz, with all expedition, and that he likewise hasten the Commission agreed on and directed for the examination and discovery of the rest of the Actors or Abettors in the said misdemeanors, and that here of he give their Lordshipps an account at their next sitting on Fryday in the afternoone

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76. Lyamshin, who for some misdemeanour had not been invited to join the party and so knew all that had been happening in the town before anyone else, brought her the news

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77. The police authorities and gendarmes cross-question him, but nothing that he says can be brought under the head of any of the misdemeanors which come under their jurisdiction

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78. And in case any officer, civil or military, to whom such warrant shall be directed, shall fail, or unreasonably delay to execute the same, every officer so offending shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall be punished by fine and imprisonment before any court of the United States having cognizance of the offence

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79. Their marriage is, from the first, an incongruous one; Ashe’s indulgence and blindness throw Kitty’s absurdities into increasingly conspicuous relief, and his absorption in political exigencies is broken only at intervals by some startling misdemeanor on her part, resulting in scenes of passionate and half-remorseful affection

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