Not failure, but low aim, is a crime. From LearnThat.org. [Ernest Holmes]
The word crime in the title is used as a metaphor. From Wordnik.com. [Fleur De Leigh’s Life of Crime] Reference
His partner in crime is Willie (Billy Bob Thorton) who plays the depertment store Santa. From Wordnik.com. [Top 10 Midget Performances » Scene-Stealers] Reference
Nothing like knocking over a straw man - Dennis 'work is concerned with trends in crime from the 1950s to today. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-01-02] Reference
"I don't like the term crime-it's such a big, fat, imprecise word," says the renowned University of Oslo criminologist. From Wordnik.com. [Impact Lab] Reference
Whether you committed a crime is a legal question. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Down the Memory Hole” Speech Restrictions, Supported by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)] Reference
A third area is what I refer to as crime technology. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Ashcroft Hearings: Sens. Schumer, DeWine Question Attorney General Nominee - January 17, 2001] Reference
Ultimately the crime is a threat to national security. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » ALLEN: “A Likely Scenario For What Happened Today Is Patrick Fitzgerald Got Some Indictmentsâ€] Reference
This crime is the manifest outshoot of American slavery. From Wordnik.com. [The Martyred President: A Sermon Preached in the First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.] Reference
Even if I commit what they call a crime, why should I accept. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
But have you not discovered any trace of what he calls his crime?. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter IV. Book VII] Reference
I understand the crime is awful and i do not support him in any way. From Wordnik.com. [Live Blog from the Anchor Desk 09/28/09] Reference
In any nation the decision to prosecute a crime is an executive one. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Art of Interrogation] Reference
He recited what we call a crime as impassively as he recited a virtue. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10] Reference
We conservatives are tough on crime!, except when the crime is our own. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Barnes: CIA Leak “Pretty Minor Scandal,” “Merely a Perjury Charge,” Only “Elites” Care] Reference
Now, the making of war a crime is an enormous advance in human history. From Wordnik.com. [The International Situation and the Protocol] Reference
Was it anything less than that of which this crime is the personification?. From Wordnik.com. [God's Ways Unsearchable] Reference
We know that the greatest deterrent to committing a crime is the fear that you will be caught. From Wordnik.com. [Investing in our Young People] Reference
This crime is the only one with such an adjective, yet so many use kid-gloves when addressing solutions. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Why the Arizona Law is Much Worse than the Federal Law It is Supposedly Based On] Reference
The "crime" is that you entered Israel for a purpose other than blowing up a bus full of schoolchildren, Bruce. From Wordnik.com. [Daimnation!: Another Canadian tastes Middle Eastern justice] Reference
Regardless, a crime is a crime and should the Grand Jury feel one has been committed, the end game is the same. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Notification of ‘Target’ Status: Rove’s Red Herring] Reference
Whether this is true or not, I don't know; but that some men have a tendency toward what we call crime, I believe. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews] Reference
What they do in civil war, in peacetime they call crime. From Wordnik.com. [Sandy Ford (Barbara Lee)] Reference
We can thus call a crime a mistake, or a mistake a crime. From Wordnik.com. [Rhetoric] Reference
You will not find this described as a crime anywhere in the. From Wordnik.com. [Spectator Live] Reference
Arlene Hunt: the urban-rural divide in Irish crime writing. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
Indeed, he actually used the word crime in the above excerpt. From Wordnik.com. [Rudy's Strategy: Refighting The War With Liberals He Won In The 1990s] Reference
Then we both signed the paperwork, and I called the crime lab. From Wordnik.com. [The 6th Target]
The operative word in Swedish crime fiction, ask any fan, is moody. From Wordnik.com. [ Analysis] Reference
That must be a cornerstone to any long-term crime-prevention strategy. From Wordnik.com. [In These Times] Reference
Brian McGilloway: crossing the line - borders in Irish crime narratives. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
What we call crime was utterly unknown to the Vril-ya; and there were no courts of criminal justice. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming Race] Reference
You will not find this described as a crime anywhere in the (once) commonly accepted rules of warfare. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
They have to pay a fine, therefore they're paying for their so-called crime, which is not really a crime. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 21, 2007] Reference
So couldn't you say that his reaction was what you often call a crime of passion, where it was instantaneous reaction?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2007] Reference
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