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Example sentences for: arson

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Hate crime laws generally impose tougher punishments when crimes such as rape, arson, assault, intimidation, and damage of property are motivated by bias.
The societies, which have been blamed for dozens of rapes, murders, assaults, and arson attacks over the years, are widely considered to be the most serious problem facing Africa's largest university system.
Branch's most powerful scenes are his unflinching descriptions of the horrors endured by hundreds of activists, from the "medieval privations of ," to barbaric beatings by , to the arson and murder committed by . When TV cameras covered events like these, the nation was riveted, but often these individual sacrifices went unnoticed by reporters swooning over King.
Republican Representative Curt Weldon, chairman of the House fire caucus, offers an alternative explanation: when the economy is strong, "they don't need to commit arson or bail out a business."
In its news section "cover story," USAT says the arson deaths of the three brothers have given both Catholics and Protestants pause and appear to have brought Northern Ireland "back to sanity, back from the brink."