Exempel på heinous

• These include a proto-global consensus with respect to some particularly heinous criminal acts and with respect to some inalienable individual rights.

• The payment of huge rewards for the conviction of highwaymen and other heinous criminals is a case in point.

• A "disqualifoul" is a foul that is so heinous the player is sent off the field, "disqualified from playing any more".

• Large rewards were offered for heinous offenders.

• Nonetheless, in modern, as opposed to classical, democracies, people no longer believe that heinous crimes justify stripping their perpetrators of their citizenship, or forcing them into exile.

• Scarcely less heinous were the clients of cunning men and women : to resort to them was idolatrous, superstitious, and tantamount to making a tacit pact with the archfiend.

• She then uses associations with gestation and motherhood (762) to augment the sense of her right to grieve and assert the heinous and unnatural nature of the crime.

• He had been found guilty of what was regarded as terribly heinous offences involving sedition and a degree of obscenity.

• I respectfully agree with him that this is not a particularly heinous example.

• It might be just for so heinous a crime, it might be justice, but would it be merciful?

• All morning, we have been told about individuals who have committed the most ghastly and heinous acts and are a threat to society.

• I believe it is the most devious and heinous threat that faces the world and especially the world economies.

• That seems to me just as heinous a case as the woman in the family circle that we are discussing this afternoon.

• It is claimed that they are all heinous crimes, carrying the same moral culpability and therefore requiring the same mandatory sentence—life imprisonment.

• He had pleaded guilty to the heinous crime of saving and replanting seeds—in this case, soya beans.