Example sentences for: criminals

How can you use “criminals” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The current clamor in the West for Yugoslav war criminals to be put on trial for crimes against humanity should be used to demand the prosecution of Israelis for atrocities and massacres committed against Palestinians during and since the 1948 Israeli-Arab War, according to Palestinian writer Mohammad al-Az'ar in Thursday's Pan-Arab al-Hayat . In Egypt, the semi-official daily Al-Ahram published an article Thursday by commentator Salaheddin Hafez warning that what NATO is doing in Yugoslavia could be replicated against one or more Arab countries.

  • The Los Angeles Times goes with a Syracuse University study showing that federal prosecutions of gun cases have recently dropped by a third and that convicted criminals are serving less jail time.

  • The second instance of Bennett's dishonesty concerns incarceration . In the 1994 volume, Bennett defines the incarceration problem as the failure to imprison criminals.

  • Evita: In the New Republic , historian Enrique Krauze lists the horrors of Perónism glossed over by the musical and film: the torture and murder of political opponents, often under Nazi tutelage; the sheltering of war criminals, possibly for personal profit; the destruction of the Argentine economy; the laying of the cornerstone for the "Dirty Wars" of the 1970s and 1980s.

  • But the paper goes on to admit that it's unclear how many of the criminals affected are like the Ethiopian woman and how many are more serious felons.


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