Both delinquents were adjudged to lose their aldermanries, and Soame was also condemned to lose his seat in the House.
Common Council took the matter up, and agreed to petition parliament that delinquents might be brought to judgment, and that in all cases of sequestration provision might be made for payment of all just debts out of delinquents’ estates.
On the 6th October an ordinance excluding delinquents from all municipal offices or from voting at municipal elections finally received the approval of both Houses.
But, however that may be, the court marked its sense of their conduct by fining six of the delinquents 100 marks a-piece, whilst it took time to consider the case of the other four, they being members of parliament.
A secret plan for the certain detection of prying delinquentshas recently been devised.
The records of the Dead Letter Office, if consulted, would present a list of delinquents in this particular, embracing the names of hundreds of individuals and firms, ranking as the most exact and systematic persons in the community.
In lighter transgressions too the penalty is measured by the fault, and the delinquents upon conviction are condemned to pay a certain number of horses or cattle.
After a while, Jacques Michou became weary of carrying the delinquents before M.
Heger, a Belgian anthropologist says that the skulls of delinquents do not differ from the skulls of the race to which the delinquent belongs.
For the settlement of quarrels and disputes which frequently occur in the market, there is a special market court, presided over by a judge, and all delinquents are interned in a large zariba quite open to the sun's burning rays.
In Polynesia, according to Ellis, "the prohibitions and requisitions of the tabu were strictly enforced, and every breach of them punished with death, unless the delinquents had some very powerful friends who were either priests or chiefs.
The change of sex was usually accompanied by future shamanship; indeed, nearly all the shamans were former delinquents of their sex.
The punishment of delinquents has also been considerably modified by the United States authorities.
This resulted in great abuses, because the delinquents during the years of war were fifteen, sixteen, and forty-three per cent.
He has his prison for delinquents of various kinds, and sometimes his forked gibbets.
A tax, as soon as it becomes exorbitant, invites fraud, and raises up a population of delinquents against its army of clerks.
In spite of the gravity of these cases, the delinquents were not sent to prison, but were set free on paying a fine of eight hundred pesos each--a procedure which caused censure and discontent among the people.
Patience, long drawn out, at last gave way, and when the milkman caught two delinquents one Saturday afternoon with bulging blouses of forbidden fruit it became necessary to make an example of some one.
That truancy was to a great extent responsible for these juvenile delinquents was proved by the fact that more then one-half of the lads sent to Magill had committed the crimes for which they were first convicted while truanting.
The separate trial of juvenile delinquents was strongly advocated by the council.
The locks of none of the opened closets had been forced; therefore the delinquents had keys.
Such an attack against a member of his Senate excited the wrath of the Emperor, who was told of the arrest of the delinquents almost at the moment when he first heard of the crime and the negative results of the inquiries.
The board also has jurisdiction over the hospital for the insane at Jamestown, the training school for delinquents at Mandan, the penitentiary at Bismarck, and a sanatorium at San Haven.
The reform school at Mandan was renamed the State Training School, and a corresponding change was effected in the methods of handling delinquents sent there.
The most important discrimination in favor of these delinquents was the requirement of two independent denunciations to justify arrest and trial.
The first of these notorious delinquents was a man of middle age, robust, strong, and who, until the event now referred to, had not given occasion for the least suspicion as to his morality.
The method employed by the clergy to discover delinquents with reference to these obligations, is as rigid and severe as any that can be devised by the most despotic civil authority.
Fourth: establishment by the educational authorities, or by the State of reformatory schools, for youthful delinquents and juvenile adults regardless of physical weakness, deprivations or disease.
Some of the cases" they say, "are so flagrantly corrupt, and others attended with circumstances so oppressive to the inhabitants, that it would be unjust to suffer the delinquents to go unpunished.
Nothing could exceed the indignation of Governor Bruere when he received intelligence of the plundering of the magazine; he promptly called upon the legislature to take active measures for bringing the delinquents to justice.
The Governor let no opportunity escape him to accuse the Bermudians of disloyality, and no doubt severe punishment would have been inflicted on the delinquents could they have been discovered.
All three delinquents bore traces of torture on their bodies.
The Franciscan monk who was on the scaffold to afford the delinquents the last consolations of religion, tried to pacify them both, and begged them for Heaven's sake to leave off cursing; but neither paid the slightest attention to him.
On every such sad occasion the pastor of Great Leta has to sit in the felons' car by my side with the delinquents opposite.
When he did, however, the half-dozen delinquentswere at work on their imposition.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "delinquents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
