How To Use Perpetrate In A Sentence

I can't begin to describe the horrors being perpetrated by the DJ's, their insistent attempts to incite a conga line, or the, um, "dancing" of the patrons who -- despite clearly being the offspring and younger relatives that the publisher folks had passed on their tickets to -- managed to make your dad's elbow-jiggle and hip-shoogle look like The Moves Of The Groove. Archive 2006-10-01
We are often obliged to report on mayhem and savage behaviour perpetrated by thugs who are barely out of rompers.
But whatever means they find to perpetrate this assault they must be opposed for the warmongers they are.
The cruelty perpetrated on the family must cease immediately.
Looking back at Labour health policy now, I have to ask myself how so many of us were unable to see through the mists of what Leys and Player call the "misrepresentation, obfuscation, and deception" perpetrated by Blair, Brown, and a host of health ministers all too willing to genuflect to the market zeitgeist. The Plot Against the NHS by Colin Leys and Stewart Player – review

What distinguishes them is not the nature of the fraud but the technical means by which it is perpetrated, and this is a matter of indifference in English law.
`And how, precisely, do you think I, who am under lock and key myself, could perpetrate such an outrage? THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
The people who perpetrated that buy-back scheme are despicable, deceitful, dishonest, and crooked.
Why do these criminals feel they can perpetrate such horrendous crimes and get away with it?
He used his diary to put a fine gloss on the horrors the regime perpetrated.
So it was that the scholar began his researches at the abbey, continuously aware of the three novices who toiled at the drive-mill and the fourth novice who invited glare-blindness atop the ladder to keep the lamp burning and adjusted-a situation which caused the Poet to versify mercilessly concerning the demon Embarrassment and the outrages he perpetrated in the name of penitence or appeasement. A Canticle for Leibowitz
Mohammedan sword was again unsheathed; for fresh in their memories were the terrible atrocities perpetrated during the former uprising, which was one long intermittent period of bloodshed and pillage lasting from 1861 to 1874, both parties, however, assenting to a cessation of hostilities each year during seedtime and harvest. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
If we exclude those individuals who consciously choose to act unethically, we must still ask what motivates people who are ostensibly dedicated to helping mankind to perpetrate injustice.
An article in Popular Mechanics suggests some historical absurdities which future authors may attempt to perpetrate on the gullible public. March 15th, 2009
A high proportion of crime in any country is perpetrated by young males in their teens and twenties.
House of Representatives and pretty much misrepresented her and any resident of his district sociallly to the left of Savanarola while helping to perpetrate the now-classic Reaganite Republican big con of voting for tax cuts for the rich and policies that screwed over the working class residents of his district whose interests, he swore, he was protecting by selling them out. Random Thought Number One on The Hoosier Hypocrite
Both the semi-autobiographical Denisovich and the non-ficiton Archipelago described Gulag life in harrowing detail, and forced the West to finally acknowledge the grave human rights abuses perpetrated inside Stalin’s brutal work camps, which at their peak housed more than two million prisoners. Russian Gulags: Then and Now | Disinformation
The person who perpetrates the crime is referred to as the principal.
one who cleans and restores and sometimes ruins old pictures"; Pict: "one of an ancient people of obscure affinities, in Britain, esp. north-eastern Scotland; in Scottish folklore, one of a dwarfish race of underground dwellers, to whom (with the Romans, the Druids and Cromwell) ancient monuments are generally attributed"; perpetrate: "to execute or commit (esp. an offence, a poem, or a pun)"; and eclair: "... long in shape but short in duration. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
Whoever perpetrated these acts has to be prepared to pay for the lives they have so arbitrarily taken.
Rather than taking this directive for granted, Nelson delves into the varieties of cruelty perpetrated on us bourgeois for our supposed betterment, what the art critic Grant Kester has called the "orthopedic aesthetic. NYT > Home Page
But the federal and state agencies have ZERO interest in the swindle that's being perpetrated.
Some of these killings were perpetrated by people who were poor and uneducated, but others were not.
The extirpation of Protestantism was another favourite object of Austrian policy: and the cruelties perpetrated with this view by George Basta and the other imperial generals at the beginning of the century was such, that a general rising took place under Stephen Boczkai, then waiwode of Transylvania, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
It is a place he could go to -- where you and others doubtless went -- to, to perpetrate whatever disgusting and illegal acts you favour! THE LAST RAVEN
There are a number of drugs that may be used to debilitate a victim and make it easier to perpetrate sexual assault.
Was it the Greek verse, containing one senarius with a long syllable before the caesura in the fifth foot, as Herbert pointed out to his brother on the very evening when that hideous oversight -- say rather crime -- had been openly perpetrated in plain black and white on a virgin sheet of innocent paper? Philistia
Darwin must be turning in his grave at the thought of what is being perpetrated in his name.
Some of history's greatest scams have been perpetrated by con artists masquerading as philanthropists.
What passed in that chamber, and who perpetrated that murder the Almighty knows -- _and, perhaps, Dick Robinson, if he is still alive, also knows_! [ My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself.
So, where is the Vatican's outrage at the worldwide epidemic of sexual abuse of children perpetrated by its own clergy --- a sin of the very first order, given the defenselessness of the victims and the power and trust invested in the molesting men of God? Carla Seaquist: Where is the Vatican's Outrage about Child Molestation?
In Britain, half of all violent crime is perpetrated by people who have been drinking alcohol.
A high proportion of crime is perpetrated by young males in their teens and twenties.
I worshipped her," Porter says, simply; her death was a loss so catastrophic that, he believes, his mind perpetrated "an awful kind of excision" to deal with it. Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
This was nothing but an elaborate hoax perpetrated by her in revenge for all the suffering I had caused her.
What is significant in the term heterosexism is the fact that it describes discrimination and/or violence perpetrated by heterosexuals against those perceived to be in deviation from heterosexual norms. Heterosexism and the African American Community
As we digest the probability that the House of Commons will vote to ratify the EU Constitution without a single shred of democratic legitimacy, even the Guardian, which can normally be relied upon to peddle the Party Line in as psittacine a manner as it can manage, has felt moved to object to the present undemocratic outrage being perpetrated by Labour. Archive 2008-01-20
The point here, then, is that the first two instances, while not being condonable occurences in the least, seem to have been perpetrated by a minority of the population, who in the case of Pakistan are already wanted men. Women Erased in Israel, Flogged in Pakistan and Restricted in Afghanistan - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
The 22 page study documents that despite the decrease in youth-perpetrated crime - down by 33% nationwide since 1993 - newspapers over-reported youth crime, giving the opposite impression.
Indeed through history there have been religious wars where zealots have perpetrated atrocities in the name of their religion.
The Chicago Tribune called the oxbow an “outrage” perpetrated by “a set of unprincipled swindlers” intent on “building the road at the largest possible expense to the Government and the least possible expense to themselves.” Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
Just when it looked like we had rumbled them, they perpetrated on us probably the greatest political confidence trick of the century.
Commandments broken in a general smash; such rogueries and knaveries as no storyteller could invent; such murders and robberies as Thurtell or Turpin scarce ever perpetrated; — were by my informant accurately remembered, and freely related, respecting his nearest kindred, to any one who chose to hear him. The Virginians
To the poetic vision of early seers the crimson West seemed ensanguined by some great massacre that had been perpetrated there. The light that draws the flower
With an eye ever open for the absurdity of her vocation, Mr. Gottlieb steers us through a thicket of fictions and half-truths about Sarah, many of them perpetrated by the "relentless fabulist" herself. Actress, Seductress
The 10 attackers who perpetrated the heinous acts were members of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a Pakistani Islamic extremist group responsible for several previous attacks across India.
Now, after more than two and a half years of war, we on the other side know that the "phantom" is a grim and bloody reality, for we have known the hellish horrors which it perpetrates not only in battle, but in the peaceful villages and country. The Prussian Mind
The violence perpetrated by the police and state-run institutions has an intimate connection with the drug trade itself.
Meshoe said that by supporting Iraqi interests while remaining silent about what he called the atrocities perpetrated by ANC Daily News Briefing
After reading McCarthy's take on the unspeakably evil acts perpetrated by a group of depraved 19th-century American marauders from the Old West, I queasily figured it was better to write this post than try to eat breakfast. Dave Astor: If All Books Were as Violent as Cormac McCarthy Books
It is a place he could go to -- where you and others doubtless went -- to, to perpetrate whatever disgusting and illegal acts you favour! THE LAST RAVEN
It is a good idea to check with your existing bank as to who would be liable should fraud ever be perpetrated.
ACTS constitute protection; and is that public sentiment which makes the slave 'property,' and perpetrates hourly robbery and batteries upon him, so penetrated with a sense of the sacredness of his right to life, that it will protect it at all hazards, and drag to the gallows his OWNER, if he take the life of his own _property_? The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
All over the country, and in fact all over the world, people are waking up to the horrors being perpetrated by the tyrants of power and authority.
Our courts are clogged with lawsuits pleading redress of wrongs perpetrated on individual employees.
To be separated from him for any length of time meant to be in mortal danger, for Hitler was susceptible to whisperings about disloyal acts and even outright treason perpetrated by the absent person.
The tragedy of the savage, brutal murders perpetrated on two young mothers a few years ago still lingers.
Miguel Tapia Huenulef, 45, was arrested as a suspect in an arson attempt perpetrated in January on an estate called San Leandro near the town of Lautaro, in the region of AraucanÃa, over 600 kilometres south of Santiago. Anarkismo.net
He regarded a foreign consul, with the right of exterritoriality, as a hostile force in the way of his ambitions, and, therefore, until he found that one was not to be bought or worried into indifference to the injustice perpetrated around him, he treated him as an enemy. The Autobiography of a Journalist
For years Nazi Germany's policy abroad has been that of exacting concessions with the threat that otherwise she will perpetrate a world horror by which the humane will be excruciated while she herself, not being humane, will be entertained if not exhilarated. What Is Now At Stake In Europe
`And how, precisely, do you think I, who am under lock and key myself, could perpetrate such an outrage? THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
These people are clearly criminals and have perpetrated a massive swindle against thousands of Americans, and become fantastically rich as a result.
For the sake of truth, I must add that the fanatical enormities perpetrated in the name of religion are only to be put down to the adherents of monotheistic creeds, that is, the Jewish faith and its two branches, Christianity and Islamism. Religion
He bought shirt-pins; wore a ring on his third finger; read poetry; bribed a cheap miniature-painter to perpetrate a faint resemblance to a youthful face, with a curtain over his head, six large books in the background, and an open country in the distance (this he called his portrait); 'went on' altogether in such an uproarious manner, that the three Miss Dounces went off on small pensions, he having made the tenement in Cursitor-street too warm to contain them; and in short, comported and demeaned himself in every respect like an unmitigated old Saracen, as he was. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people
This, I believe, is the only grammatical solecism Esther perpetrates in her long narrative.
- The sentencing of a 19-year-old "swatter" to 11 years in prison has drawn renewed attention to caller-ID spoofing, which Matthew Weigman used to perpetrate his fake 911 calls and is at the heart of myriad scams. Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
Only an insane person could perpetrate such a horrible crime.
What course will justice take to make those responsible for the villainous wickedness perpetrated on the silent victims pay?
Nothing here has been perpetrated but badinage, and bad badinage at that," said Elphaba. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
The play explores at length the motives that might cause someone to perpetrate such deeds.
Why do these criminals feel they can perpetrate such horrendous crimes and get away with it?
On the contrary "-- he heard, as if somebody else had perpetrated it, the horrible repetition --" I mean to say -- "His brain fought for another phrase madly and in vain. Mr. Waddington of Wyck
No, any more than Bill O'Reilly and Rupert Murdock caused the jihadist attack on a physician who had violated a terrorist's religious sensibilities -- or, for that matter, any more than jihadist websites that publicize the "blasphemies" perpetrated by the United States cause alienated young men to become suicide bombers against us or our allies. Drew Westen: Gun Violence and the Lessons of Tucson: Will the Chambers Once Again Be Loaded Against the American People?
And then other times I fail utterly - e.g. some group I never heard of and whose name I now forget who, I found on checking them out, perpetrate a sort of slushily romantic goth metal-lite. Won't Get Byrned Again: The Indignity of Being an Unwitting Participant
The advocacy of the dismemberment of "bourgeois-boyar" Greater Romania, to which the author alludes, was perpetrated, in various articles, signed by some of those who were the power behind the (communist) throne, namely Timotei Marin (Tima) and Ghita Moscu, who demanded that the Act of December 1, 1918, sanctioning the unification of Transylvania with Romania, be declared null and void. Survival in Romania
‘This level of quite horrific violence which has been perpetrated against the pygmies is part, or was part, of a campaign aimed at exterminating them,’ he said.
The Defendants' fiduciary relationship only came into being in the course of the fraud and was incidental to the means by which the fraud was perpetrated.
Schlosser does nothing more than repackage some of the same tired old myths about capitalism that earlier generations of muckraking socialists perpetrated.
Even as Stalin perpetrated crimes against humanity in his own country, Conquest explains, writers, thinkers, and artists in the West idealized and lionized him because the ideology he espoused held an intrinsic appeal for them. Facing Up to Stalin
Willingness to die for a fraud one has perpetrated is another. Darwin's God
`And how, precisely, do you think I, who am under lock and key myself, could perpetrate such an outrage? THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
This was such a senseless act of violence perpetrated upon a great talent and a great man.
We stands out both for its power and also for its context: an early supporter of the Communist revolution in Russia, Zamyatin quickly realized the abuses that were being perpetrated by those in power. Archive 2010-07-01
These abuses perpetrated because of actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity, have affected millions.
A high proportion of crime in any country is perpetrated by young males in their teens and twenties.
Let Orrin Hatch, Mitch McConnell and other right wing extremist stew in their bile and become red faced with indignancy as the American patriots in the congress undo the wrongs these corporatist loyalists have enabled or perpetrated. Printing: Time to End the Interim Appointment Rat-Hole
This isn't some aggrieved person tipped over the edge with a motive to perpetrate evil - this is a seemingly random and unprovoked sequence of events.
I speak not merely of obscurities, to perpetrate which is in every sense to stand in one's own light, but of sheer fatuities, tweakings-of-the-nose to our reverend mother-tongue, as either might have expressed it. Without Prejudice
The story that I am talking about is a fraud on the New Zealand Government that has been perpetrated by immigrant operators and foreign fly-by-nighters.
That they did not bury any of their dead, and the reckless slaughter they perpetrated, point also to an entire ignorance of the putrefactive process. The War of The Worlds
Yellowstone does not have many small problems, it has one large one with many parts - namely, the multifarious damage to range and other wildlife perpetrated by overly abundant bison and elk.
Grand-theft football is not the only offense perpetrated in NFL pileups.
I leapt round the door and performed one of the worst line-out fouls I've ever perpetrated on anyone from behind. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
The report also notes what it calls deliberate and continuous absenteeism "perpetrated in order to engage in remunerative work outside the public service". ANC Daily News Briefing
I don't understand how you can perpetrate a fraud like this on your family. NOBODY'S BABY BUT MINE
A brief perusal of the Jerusalem Post's 65-year-old archives from June 1946 alone reveals the brutalities perpetrated by British soldiers against Jews in their own country. Of French Solutions to Mideast Peace
The Sultan was responsible, for these barbarities were not the act of the criminal class, such as afflicts every country, the malefactors who usually perpetrate horrible crime, but were perpetrated by the agents of the Sultan -- the soldiers and the The Grand Old Man
Petty property crime, by far the most commonly prosecuted offence from the eighteenth century onwards, has also been perpetrated in the main by young men.
Only an insane person could perpetrate such a horrible crime.
There she learned to both respect and fear the power of beef, as marauding groups of bovines perpetrated numerous acts of violence in a gang war that lasted decades.
Unfortunately, some of the most spectacular frauds ever perpetrated were carried through in connection with the attempt of the United States Treasury Department to collect and sell the confiscable property in the South. The Sequel of Appomattox : a chronicle of the reunion of the states
We are united in our stand to bring to justice those that perpetrated such a horrendous act of murder.
In many cases, they end up as child soldiers, programmed at a young age to perpetrate violence and acts of terrorism.
The commonwealth, Dalzell believed, had perpetrated a fraud on the federal court; the commonwealth had swapped evidence.
Many never hear of the good we do, hearing only accounts, and sometimes greatly inflated rumors, of the evil acts perpetrated by others.
In Britain, half of all violent crime is perpetrated by people who have been drinking alcohol.
Many of the comments seem to let government interventions into the market process off, as some sort of a cosmic inevitability, this is not a unique phenomenon but some sort of a spillover into our thinking arising from the fiction that we perpetrate in economic model building to externalise 'G'. Lessons of the Great Depression, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
We may well decide that it was the most evil act ever perpetrated by human beings on fellow people.
The media who perpetrate this outright inversion of the truth truly have blood on their hands.
Government in doing good, provided we can do so without at the same time aiding it in the wrong it perpetrates, this must mean, of course, that it is right to aid and obey a Government _in doing wrong_, if we think that, on the whole, the Government effects more good than harm. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
Kashmir Herald is an attempt by Kashmiri Hindus to unmask the truths behind the mayhem perpetrated in the name of religion in the State of Jammu & Kashmir in India.
For whatsoe'er we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate, which in success often disinherits, for spurious causes, noblest merits. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 5, 1890
Was ever such wickedness perpetrated on the many by so few?
It is a place he could go to -- where you and others doubtless went -- to, to perpetrate whatever disgusting and illegal acts you favour! THE LAST RAVEN
I don't understand how you can perpetrate a fraud like this on your family. NOBODY'S BABY BUT MINE
Figuring out why an adult perpetrates such acts will always remain a psychiatrist's delight.
The oil fields of Iraq are clearly 'divvied' up among the plotters -- Exxon Mobil, Conoco (before its merger with Phillips), Shell Oil, BP America Inc et al. The common sense interpretation of the undeniable timeline (in the public record) is that Bush and Cheney conspired with their neocon and oil industry 'base' to perpetrate a hoax upon the US -- a 911 pretext -- upon which they would raise the bogus specter of 'terrorism'! Bush tells another bald-faced whopper, claims he has laid the 'foundation of peace'!
What a comment on our culture when people "perpetrate" themselves in order to claim victimhod. This was totally...
Col. 10 of the Derveni papyrus draws attention to the violence perpetrated by one divine generation against another.
The Ahl Tusuf, a branch of the Habertel Jahleh, at present hold possession of Kurrum, and between them and the tribes to windward there exists a most bitter and irreconcileable feud, the consequence of sundry murders perpetrated about five years since at Kurrum, and which hitherto have not been avenged. First footsteps in East Africa
The myth that we perpetrate is that mathematics is reliable, self-consistent, and immutable, and that ‘good’ mathematicians do not make mistakes.
I don't understand how you can perpetrate a fraud like this on your family. NOBODY'S BABY BUT MINE
In contrast, another survey found that as many as 75% of security breaches are perpetrated by insiders.
When an American takes lawful action to defend from the crime perpetrated by the intellectual property rights owner, the intellectual property rights owner can use intellectual property laws to sue people for interfering with property rights when they try and stop a theft. Friends don’t spy on friends
For example a person arrested for being disorderly would be classed as having perpetrated a violent crime.
When we don't, we either ignore injustice or perpetrate injustice because the victims are not seen as humans, but rather as what Martin Buber called "it. Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater: Put A Little Love In Your Heart: Jewish Wisdom For Global Healing
Voters passed the Three Strikes Law as a response to several well-publicized horrors perpetrated by evil ex-cons who never should have been set free from prison.
They cannot be expected to be present while every act of crime or vandalism is being perpetrated.
I don't understand how you can perpetrate a fraud like this on your family. NOBODY'S BABY BUT MINE
Then (of course) there are all the scams and frauds being perpetrated through the Net.
While I'm depleting the piscine community, you'll be interested to know that the latest winners of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest have perpetrated their crimes on the reading public and been justly rewarded therefore. Archive 2010-06-01
Our courts are clogged with lawsuits pleading redress of wrongs perpetrated on individual employees.
The darkest shadow over the river apportionments was cast by the belated realization that Arthur Powell Davis, in promising that the river would always provide enough water to satisfy all demands, had perpetrated a fraud. Colossus
He is widely believed to have fueled the war in support of one of the fighting parties, to which he committed ragtag militias that perpetrated unspeakable atrocities.
One of the greatest lies consistently perpetrated is that the Bolshevik revolution 'went wrong' only when Stalin 'usurped' power. First They Came For - In Defence of Free Speech
If this is happening, can you imagine what other boo-boos are being perpetrated?
The Canadian public has recently seen several shocking crimes perpetrated by prisoners out on parole.
The term crimen pessimum [ "the foulest crime"] is here understood to mean any external obscene act, gravely sinful, perpetrated or attempted by a cleric in any way whatsoever with a person of his own sex. Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
You cannot sit there and let someone into your house and let them perpetrate a crime.
If it was a lie the villain perpetrated, why then did he seem surprised she showed up? /Filmcast Ep. 28 - Australia (GUESTS: Chris and Jimmy from Scene Unseen) | /Film
Where the fraudster has perpetrated the fraud by drawing cheques on the customer's account, the victim's cause of action is usually for the conversion of the cheques involved.
Instead of going on peace demonstrations and fulminating about the horrendous injustice and doublethink perpetrated by all participants, I should have been figuring the angles for profit opportunities!
Only an insane person could perpetrate such a horrible crime.
In Britain, half of all violent crime is perpetrated by people who have been drinking alcohol.
Moreover, they were not perpetrated by isolated actors, but were part of what Bill Black calls a criminogenic environment. Thomas Adams and Yves Smith: New York Times Muffs Merrill/Magnetar Piece (Corrected and Updated)
The rumor was that I had invented him to perpetrate a hoax and had actually written the books myself.
They have failed to distinguish between policies that perpetrate dependency and those that promote growth and self-reliance.
He used his diary to put a fine gloss on the horrors the regime perpetrated.
The dominie was a poor creature, whose necessities compelled him to abide in our neighborhood, though his moral sense was greatly shocked at the crimes which were often perpetrated around him. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851
The focus was largely on the beliefs of those who perpetrated the acts of terrorism.
They performed the dizziest feats of arithmetic, soaring quite out of MY feeble range, and perpetrated, in higher spirits than ever, geographical and historical jokes. The Turn of the Screw
I think a healthy, strong society will move with dispatch to eliminate those individuals who perpetrate these kinds of outrages.
The kinds of attack perpetrated by women seldom use deadly force.
Rumours that no scientist expressed doubts about the potential problems are falsehoods perpetrated by officials with a vested interest.
In Britain, half of all violent crime is perpetrated by people who have been drinking alcohol.
It is a place he could go to -- where you and others doubtless went -- to, to perpetrate whatever disgusting and illegal acts you favour! THE LAST RAVEN
perpetrate a crime
I also believe the phrase "gay gene" is a straw man argument, or a buzzword perpetrated by the religious right such as the phrases "radical homosexual activist" or "protecting marriage. Alvin McEwen: Eleventh researcher complains that the religious right distorted his work
He said the alliance has moved to 24-hour surveillance by sophisticated aircraft and is closely monitoring what he called daily, even hourly, "reports about new acts of violence perpetrated by the Libyan regime against civilians. NATO Considers Options for Humanitarian Intervention in Libya
We are united in our stand to bring to justice those that perpetrated such a horrendous act of murder.
Yet although many of LulzSec's attacks were perpetrated "for the lulz", the group was accused of attempted extortion by one US security company.
Tengberg does not specify how the fraudster perpetrated their dastardly deeds - wouldn't the company have been insured against dud credit cards?
For whatsoe'er we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate, which in success often disinherits, for spurious causes, noblest merits. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 5, 1890
Nor let us believe, with the dupes, of a shallow policy, that there exists upon the earth one prejudice that can be called salutary or one error beneficial to perpetrate. The Disowned — Volume 06
They cannot be expected to be present while every act of crime or vandalism is being perpetrated.
The difficulty of disentangling individual from collective responsibility for the evils perpetrated by the Nazi regime is unresolved even now, and perhaps is inherently unresolvable.
In Britain, half of all violent crime is perpetrated by people who have been drinking alcohol.
Interspersed were comments on what seems to be a favorite topic: the abuses perpetrated by the media.
Note 56: Possible causes for estrangement from the Resistance movement may include unpopular sentences handed down by the partisan military or the popular courts; excessive taxes on landed gentry; political pressure; violence perpetrated by KKE against collaborators and their families, especially after the December Events of 1944 and under the banner of 'revolutionary violence'. back Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
McGonagall, who has been credited with some of the most heinous crimes ever perpetrated against the English language, found himself in esteemed company at Lyon and Turnbull in Edinburgh, where his poems fetched more than a collection of Harry Potter first editions signed by J.K. Rowling. May « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
In the past when I have described and criticized some outrage perpetrated by the telescreen, one or two of my correspondents have asked me why I waste my time writing about such things - it's just TV!
A high proportion of crime is perpetrated by young males in their teens and twenties.
Domestic violence is nearly always a gender-specific crime, perpetrated by men against women.
Not only had the slaveholders perpetrated the preponderance of atrocities, and with impunity at that, but they had begun to boast that northerners and New Englanders were congenitally soft and altogether lacking in "chivalric" and soldierly qualities. The Man Who Ended Slavery
Many of our elder voters and those that don't understand computers or electronic data recording devices need to understand that these are not really "glitches" -- but evidence of voter fraud that is being perpetrated by the GOP, no shock to anyone that has witnessed two (2) stolen elections. Electronic Voting Machines And How To Help Save This Election
perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight
American white people perpetrated upon defenseless Negroes; and it was "Old England" that with bateless breath listened to the plaintive cry of Ida B. Wells, the heroine of her race. Africa and African Methodism.
Do you actually suggest that one is obliged to imagine all the specific violations that all organizations might perpetrate against them, and then go searching the internet to see if that particular violation has already be found out? Verizon Data-Sharing Hysteria Points to Larger Privacy Issues
A high proportion of crime in any country is perpetrated by young males in their teens and twenties.
She might have done this with some show of justice, had the last-intended violation been perpetrated: — but to go away conqueress and triumphant in every light! — Clarissa Harlowe
Had Gyi not perpetrated his egregious war-veteran fraud, he now could be widely revered, and deservedly so, as one of the finest hand-to-hand combat instructors ever to teach on American soil. Dr Gyi
A high proportion of crime is perpetrated by young males in their teens and twenties.
This was a blatant act of vandalism perpetrated by an individual or group as a deliberate act.
Who perpetrated that dreadful extension to the front of the building?
Third, therefore, the study has purposely omitted the violence, including femicide, which is routinely perpetrated against daughters and sisters in "occupied Palestine" and has, instead, chosen to focus only on husband-wife violence and only on couples who are currently married. Comments for Red Alerts
I will go back to the issue that I raised earlier that the people who perpetrate these acts are vicious criminals.
By continuing to reiterate the idea that aboriginal culture is "ancient", "traditional" and "part of our national heritage", the proposed amendments help non-aboriginal Australians to forget not only the genocidal violence perpetrated by early settlers but also their own implication, as settlers on unceded land, in producing the conditions under which most aboriginal Australians live today. Aboriginal Australians are part of the country's present – not just its past | Sarah Keenan
Spamming is also being used to perpetrate criminal acts.
He bought shirt – pins; wore a ring on his third finger; read poetry; bribed a cheap miniature – painter to perpetrate a faint resemblance to a youthful face, with a curtain over his head, six large books in the background, and an open country in the distance (this he called his portrait); ‘went on’ altogether in such an uproarious manner, that the three Miss Dounces went off on small pensions, he having made the tenement in Cursitor – street too warm to contain them; and in short, comported and demeaned himself in every respect like an unmitigated old Sketches by Boz
The cyberpunk is usually an outsider * not* of his/her own choosing, but because the structure of society is inherently unfair and favors the rich (who usually have to intentionally buy into or perpetrate the evils of society to get that way, ala the Bush Administration or, well, the 80s, when the genre was at its height.) Day in the Life of an Idiot
Wouldn't this prove that Europe really regrets what was perpetrated on its soil half a century ago?
The idea that the fact of having perpetrated the holocaust gives Germans credibility in preaching is farcical. Is That Legal?: Uncle Leo's Kennkarte, Sixty-Five Years Later
They had a long tradition of collaboration, and even some of the members of the -- of the klavern who perpetrated the -- the -- the bombing had been under the protection of the police. Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama - The climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
Historically, Third World countries have been at the mercy of Western monetary policy, including what many call the rapacious banking ideology perpetrated by the “World Bank.” New Shoes on Old Debt-Current economic woes have 1980's roots
She must be the only person in the UK unaware of the gun crime, perpetrated by Yardie gangsters in our major cities.
While other prison wardens are accountable to courts of law for abuses they perpetrate, security forces are not.
Though there have been tragic accidental deaths, and unsoldierly-like, inhumane, and unacceptable acts perpetrated by a few misguided, possibly psychologically damaged soldiers -- the heroics of the many young men and women attempting to bring about positive changes for the oppressed people across the globe should not be forgotten, and their sacrifices cannot be taken lightly ... especially by those of us sitting here safe at home. Cheryl Saban: True Colors
Though just as the Mozart film unpicked the myths perpetrated by "Amadeus" -- Mozart did not die a pauper and was not poisoned by Salieri or anyone else -- we discover that Beethoven was not the unkempt, unhygienic, tormented figure of romantic tradition, struggling, unloved and alone, against his tragic deafness. Debunking the Beethoven Myth
These abuses perpetrated because of actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity, have affected millions.
A high proportion of crime in any country is perpetrated by young males in their teens and twenties.

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