The objective here is to consider domestic violence against women as a criminal offense.

No offense to banana slug owners. Thank you.

But I'd want one that would play offense too.

For example, in the case of violence, women who commit an offense to protect themselves against gender based violence are treated the same way as their male counterparts.

That is a criminal offense, and you will surely be punished!

In this context, we are also deeply concerned by the trafficking of women and children, which is not only an offense against human dignity, but also a violation of International Law.

Sexual practice with minors can constitute a criminal offense leading to conviction.

Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

Or He wrecks them because of what they have earned, and He excuses many an offense .

Or He wrecks them because of what they have earned, and He excuses many an offense .

He who covers an offense promotes love but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

He who covers an offense promotes love but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

No offense, but this entire conference is an unbelievable monument to our capacity to get stuff wrong.

Australia s statements have been typical falling over backward to avoid giving offense, and too anxious to balance criticism with praise. Officials are concerned about recent disproportionate violence against protesters but welcome the Government s stated commitment to undertake electoral reforms.

If, on the other hand, a religion s adherents have no right to protection against criticism of their religion, then, even in Germany, Holocaust victims and their descendants (I am one) should not be protected against advertising campaigns that, though not intended to incite hatred or violence, may cause them offense.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

More ominously, following riots the regime put 16 opposition members on trial for taking part in the demonstrations, with prosecutors indicating that some would be charged with the offense of mohareb , or making a war against God a capital crime.

If you let a good deed be shown, or conceal it, or pardon an offense God is Pardoning and Capable.

If you let a good deed be shown, or conceal it, or pardon an offense God is Pardoning and Capable.

If instead you show some good or conceal it or pardon an offense indeed, Allah is ever Pardoning and Competent.

If instead you show some good or conceal it or pardon an offense indeed, Allah is ever Pardoning and Competent.

The offense of terrorism is a felony of the first degree with minimum sentencing of 15 years to life imprisonment.

Those who annoy the believing men and women without reason will bear the sin for a false accusation, a manifest offense.

Those who annoy the believing men and women without reason will bear the sin for a false accusation, a manifest offense.

Whatever affliction that may visit you is because of what your hands have earned, and He excuses many an offense of yours .

Whatever affliction that may visit you is because of what your hands have earned, and He excuses many an offense of yours .

We have to stop being scared silly, stop pursuing stupid policies, and start investing in smart long term R amp D. Accusations of crimes against humanity must cease. Indeed, the real offense is the alarmism that closes minds to the best ways to respond to climate change.

We have to stop being scared silly, stop pursuing stupid policies, and start investing in smart long term R D. Accusations of crimes against humanity must cease. Indeed, the real offense is the alarmism that closes minds to the best ways to respond to climate change.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ

so that you may approve the things that are excellent that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ

and, a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense. For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

and, a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense. For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

But whoever earns an offense or a sin and then blames it on an innocent person has taken upon himself a slander and manifest sin.

But whoever earns an offense or a sin and then blames it on an innocent person has taken upon himself a slander and manifest sin.

I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.

I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.

even as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.

even as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.

The posters bear the heading To Animals, All People are Nazis a line from the Polish born Jewish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer. According to the court, Germany s laws on freedom of speech did not protect PETA s campaign, because to make the fate of the victims of the Holocaust appear banal and trivial was an offense against human dignity.

Welby s request to die was widely publicized in Italy, where it led to heated debate. At the time of writing, it is unclear whether Riccio will be charged with any offense.

Calling the offense by its legal name acknowledges this, thereby preempting a rhetorical battle to frame the attack as terror, tragedy, or conspiracy. Even the Russians may be willing to accept this framing, because it avoids finger pointing against particular actors and affirms that a court of law not a series of media statements will determine what occurred and who is responsible.

Moreover, governments from Alabama to Hungary are passing laws that undermine what should be migrants rights. Italy recently adopted harsh emergency decrees that target migrants by making undocumented entry and residence a criminal offense.

In March 2004, the Moscow Patriarchy's External Relations Department issued a statement that surprised everyone. It asserted, in effect, that the Sakharov Museum exhibition organizers had committed an administrative rather than a criminal offense.