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Meanings of habitual offender in inglês

russo
рецидивист
espanhol
delincuente persistente

Person convicted of a new crime who was previously convicted of a crime(s)

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рецидивист
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Examples for "recidivist"
Examples for "recidivist"
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She is a recidivist offender against decency, honesty, progressive thought and morality.
News.com.au
2
Why, oh why, are so many recidivist criminals given suspended sentences?
The Irish Times
3
The country's worst recidivist drunk driver has appears in court again.
Radio NZ
4
Mr Cullen said it was hard to stop recidivist offenders.
Radio NZ
5
Photo: Photosport A bully and recidivist offender, Warner has appalled crowds the world over.
Radio NZ
1
A persistent offender even of fairly trivial wrongdoing is put to death without compunction.
The Girl in the Golden Atom
2
Like persistent offenders whose patterns of offence haven't been obvious to investigators.'
Another life
3
Take the precise arrangements for banishing persistent offenders from the web.
Wired
4
In the case of persistent offenders, the EU could ban them from its airports.
Reuters
5
Ifab have said that the experiment was designed to take disciplinary action against persistent offenders.
The Irish Times
1
The career criminal Arthur Taylor has been released from prison this morning.
Radio NZ
2
Virginia Vidaura-EnvoyCorps trainer, later career criminal and sometime political activist.
Woken furies
3
The career criminal Arthur Taylor has just been released from prison.
Radio NZ
4
She wasn't a career criminal, and the charges weren't serious.
Four to score
5
Charles Manson was a career criminal of the lowest order.
Exit strategy
Usage of habitual offender in inglês
1
He might become an habitual offender from sheer stupidity, but in doing so, he injured no one but himself.
Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army
2
Prison statistics show that habitual offenders do not commit suicide.
Monsieur Lecoq, v. 1
3
The habitual offenders should be shut down, he said.
The Guardian
4
Among those who belong to the class of habitual offenders, a large proportion are intellectually deficient.
The History of Tasmania , Volume II
5
But the State must do something more than this; for many young habitual offenders are too young for emigration.
London's Underworld
6
Habitual offender from way back.
An ordinary decent criminal
7
I repeat that philanthropy cannot attempt to deal with the habitual offenders, either in the days of their boyhood or in their early manhood.
London's Underworld
8
Gentle, sympathetic, generous, his universal kindliness had yet one curious exception: his attitude towards habitual offenders against the law was one of almost ferocious vindictiveness.
The Uttermost Farthing: A Savant's Vendetta
9
Hardened habitual offenders, and especially professional criminals, should, therefore, be sentenced upon indeterminate sentences, terminable only when adequate evidence of their reformation has been secured.
Sociology and Modern Social Problems
10
What habitual offenders have been all Presidents of the Council, all Secretaries of State, all First Lords of Trade, all Attorneys and all Solicitors General!
Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America
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