lawbreakers
Example Sentences
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King County describes the diversions program as a way of “bypassing prosecution and jail time” and instead connecting lawbreakers with case managers, housing and other taxpayer-funded support.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026
As Gov. Newsom said, if there are lawbreakers, let them be prosecuted.
From Salon • Jun. 12, 2025
Following years of overexploitation in the Amazon rainforest -- due mainly to illegal logging -- the government began to take tough countermeasures, introducing satellite surveillance and deploying the military to tackle lawbreakers.
From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023
Who besides lawbreakers want their transactions to go utterly undetected by third parties?
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2023
It took the form of organizing a body of men called kebiishi, upon whom devolved the duty of pursuing and arresting lawbreakers.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)
