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Example sentences for: offense

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Reading between the lines, one can infer that poisoning a pigeon is not a federal offense.
(Think of the Nazi publication Der Stuermer .) That might have been cause for an Editor's Note pointing out that while some people may have taken offense, none was intended.
Libby's defense in the movie--double jeopardy--is derived from the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, which says that no person "shall be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb."
Montana allows, but does not require, judges to impose chemical castration on offenders who commit rape or incest after even one offense, if it is particularly heinous.
German has no pure accents that I can think of (other than the occasional diaeresis in foreign proper nouns, such as Israël ), but it has one very common ligature and, of course, the umlaut which is much like a digraph—in fact, these characters are essential to proper spelling, and it is for that reason that a dropped umlaut may be seen as an offense.