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.
