I am now ready to make reparation to Thy divine Justice for all the offenses of which I have been guilty against Thee, as far as is in my power.
The question of his death is enrolled in the Capitol; his glory not extenuated, wherein he was worthy; nor his offenses enforced, for which he suffered death.
Too long has the country endured the offenses of the leaders of a party which once knew greatness.
Woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
When crimes are committed during military operations, sentences are heavier than when the same offenses are committed under conditions where duress is not a factor.
A variety of offenses against women served as an igniting spark for blood feuds.
Antiquated customs and blood feuds that were frequently initiated by offenses against women were more prevalent among the Gegs than the Tosks before the Communist takeover (see ch.
Under the unwritten tribal codes, which included the regulation of feuds, any blow, as well as many offenses committed against women, called for blood.
The virtuous man does not deserve punishment simply, but he may deserve it as satisfactory: because his very virtue demands that he should do satisfaction for his offenses against God or man.
He was somewhat frivolous, and even incurred discipline for minor offenses concerning which he wrote to his mother with amused and amusing frankness.
Toles, of Fifty-ninth Ohio Volunteers, returns to his regiment and faithfully serves out his term, he is fully pardoned for all military offenses prior to this.
Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
Archelaus, his son, was deposed for offenses not to be spoken of when compared with this massacre of the infants.
Persons committing such offenses will be at once arrested, with a view to being tried as above stated, or sent beyond our lines into the lines of their friends.
This military usurpation was spoken of by Governor Seymour, of New York, in a letter written at the time, in these words: "The transaction involved a series of offenses against our most sacred rights.
In the future progress of this work it will be seen how often we have been charged with the very offenses committed by our enemy--offenses of which the South was entirely innocent, and of which a chivalrous people would be incapable.
The enormity of his offenseswas not forgotten, but resentment against him ended with his life.
Butler, when said Mumford was an unresisting and non-combatant captive, and for no offenses even alleged to have been committed by him subsequent to the date of the occupation of the city.
For, as is always the case, minority groups which are simply tolerated have to suffer for the offenses of any of their members.
Most offenses against property, especially offenses of an appreciable magnitude, come under this head.
For have notoffenses of errors and heresies, infinite, arisen on account both of the Law and of the Gospel?
But some offenses will arise in the best of men even against their wills.
And sometimes offenses occur of which men are wholly ignorant and unconscious before they take place.
Since too many of the homeless took advantage of the law to commit petty offenses and so secure some kind of shelter for themselves, all law enforcement below the level of capital crimes went by default.
Smurthwaite could not remonstrate against the individual offenses of Joseph F.
Lannan, of the Salt Lake Tribune, why someone did not swear out warrants against President Smith for his offenses against the law.
The Gentiles of Utah had been silent, theretofore, partly because they were ignorant of the extent of the polygamous offenses of the hierarchy, and partly because they were hoping for better things.
To all persons who shall be so released and who shall keep their parole the President grants an amnesty for any past offenses of treason or disloyalty which they may have committed.
And be it further enacted, That every person guilty of either of the offenses described in this act shall be forever incapable and disqualified to hold any office under the United States.
And the like reward will be paid upon the same terms for the capture of any such persons so entering the United States whose offenses shall be committed subsequently to the publication of this notice.
Amnesty was granted all political prisoners, and pending prosecutions for political offenses were annulled.
His alleged offenses are of a nature regarded by advanced penologists as pathological rather than criminal, but however that may be, he seems hardly fitted for participation in any governing body.
Appeals to their passions, their sympathies, their prejudices, were regarded as legitimate influences and tolerated by the judges on the theory that each side's offenses would about offset those of the other.
This Tribunal will have jurisdiction of crimes and offenses against the people committed by means of the press.
A careful reading of the decree reveals the fact that several most important classes of offenses were exempted from the jurisdiction of these courts, among them all “political offenses.
When the heart remains faithful, the sordid offenses of the body are of small account.
This consideration points to the expediency of maturing at the present session a system for the regulation and government of the penitentiary, and of defining the class of offenses which shall be punishable by confinement in this edifice.
Among the twelve thousand-odd aliens in our prisons, the German prisoners run a little above the average in their bent for gainful offenses and a little below the average in their crimes of violence.
Says the Immigration Commission: "The Italian criminals are largest in numbers and create most alarm by the violent character of their offenses in this country.
In their leaning to other offenses they come close to the mean.
In offenses against chastity their showing is bad, but their bent for gainful crime is slight.
What could be more striking than the fact that more than half of the Irish convicts have been sent up for "offenses against public order," such as intoxication and vagrancy!
Among moderns, gainful offenses occur from three to seven times as frequently as crimes of violence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "offenses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
