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  • noun Plural form of crime.

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Examples

  • While punishing the slaves for crimes with vastly greater severity than it does their masters for the same crimes, and making a variety of acts _crimes_ in law, which are right, and often _duties_, it persists in refusing to make known to the slaves that complicated and barbarous penal code which loads them with such fearful liabilities.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

  • While punishing the slaves for crimes with vastly greater severity than it does their masters for the same crimes, and making a variety of acts _crimes_ in law, which are right, and often _duties_, it persists in refusing to make known to the slaves that complicated and barbarous penal code which loads them with such fearful liabilities.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • The abuses of power and of wealth will disappear, and there will be a considerable diminution in the number of crimes due to circumstances (_crimes d'occasion_), crimes caused principally by the social environment.

    Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx) Enrico Ferri 1894

  • "The massacre and the aggressiveness by Israel are ´war crimes, ´ ´crimes against humanity´ and an ´act of genocide, ´ ´Israeli Terror. ´"

    NGO Monitor Research 2009

  • "The massacre and the aggressiveness by Israel are ´war crimes, ´ ´crimes against humanity´ and an ´act of genocide, ´ ´Israeli Terror. ´"

    NGO Monitor Research 2009

  • "The massacre and the aggressiveness by Israel are ´war crimes, ´ ´crimes against humanity´ and an ´act of genocide, ´ ´Israeli Terror. ´"

    NGO Monitor Research 2009

  • Venezuelan Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami emphasized on Tuesday that Rosales is charged with corruption-related crimes, not «crimes of a political nature.

    unknown title 2009

  • "The massacre and the aggressiveness by Israel are ´war crimes, ´ ´crimes against humanity´ and an ´act of genocide, ´ ´Israeli Terror. ´"

    NGO Monitor Research 2009

  • The figures you refer to do not cover “every state” because many either do not tally or do not report either 1) any hate crimes or 2) anti-gay hate crimes*.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “IM GAY” License Plate “Offensive to the General Public,” Oklahoma Government Agency Concludes 2010

  • I said their use in crimes is rare, which is the truth, especially when compared with the use of handguns in crime.

    Rove Tweets Hunting 2009

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