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have and been
If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.
`` We've been looking for work, but all the ranchers have turned us down ''.
She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.
A detailed scouring of the entire area revealed nothing beyond a ledge of rocks that might have been the rifleman's hiding place.
Yet had he not visited the girl at Saw Buck he would never have been involved in this latest tangle.
At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;
Their product had been endorsed by Good Housekeeping, the A.M.A., and the Veterinary Journal, among other repositories of higher wisdom, and before much longer if you didn't have a cake of their soap in the john, even your best friends would think you didn't bathe.
`` The commercials have just been for money, there hasn't been any real incentive for me to do them, but in Underwater Western Eye I'd have a chance to act.
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.
( Would she have been able to had she known that the blanket belonged to a young ballet dancer Nicolas had found his first night in one of Walter's marked bars??
It had been a mistake, but anything would have been a mistake, as it turned out.
`` They wouldn't have sold me in the first place if there'd been food enough to go around ''.
The body may have been two or three weeks' dead.
She might have been someone he had once loved.
Benson said, and Ramey wondered how close their thoughts might have been.
And he would have enjoyed it just as much if he had been a Nazi.
The deeds of countless western bandits and outlaws have been glorified almost to the point of hero-worship, but because Billy Tilghman remained strictly on the side of the law throughout his action-packed career, his achievements and the appalling risks he took while taming the West have remained almost unsung.
Something was beginning to stir and come alive in her, too ( it may have been there for a good while, since she was twenty now ; ;
Had Dandy been older or wiser, instinct might have warned him that he would be well advised to flee from the Lalauries' tender care if he valued his life.

have and convicted
The New Bedford Standard-Times has reported Knowlton as saying, long after the trial, that if he only knew what Borden said during his conversation with Morse, he would have convicted `` somebody ''.
He said he would have convicted `` somebody ''.
If a defendant has been convicted and can prove that his lawyer did not adequately handle his case and that there is a reasonable probability that the result of the trial would have been different had the lawyer given competent representation, he is entitled to a new trial.
Poirot thus was forced to kill the man himself as otherwise he would have continued his actions and never been officially convicted.
This defense is not universal: in New Zealand ( for example ) homeowners have been convicted of assault for attacking burglars.
But one does not have to rely on the victims for stories of violence: Ted Patrick, one of the most notorious deprogrammers used by CAGs ( who has spent several terms in prison for his exploits ) openly boasts about some of the violence he employed ; in November 1987, Cyril Vosper, a Committee member of the British cult-awareness group, FAIR, was convicted in Munich of " causing bodily harm " in the course of one of his many deprogramming attempts ; and a number of similar convictions are on record for prominent members of CAGs elsewhere.
Federal law does not have any provisions for persons convicted of federal felonies in a federal United States district court to apply to have their record expunged.
However, courts and various levels of government have indicated that the right is not without limit, and restrictions such as a prohibition of certain persons from owning or handling a gun ( convicted felons, mentally ill persons, persons under a restraining order ), a ban on certain types of ammunition ( armor-piercing, incendiary / tracer, explosive ), registration and restriction of certain types of firearms ( automatic weapons, short-barrelled shotguns, certain types of modifications ), and licensing requirements for possession or for public carry, have often passed judicial scrutiny ( although some of these points remain untested and others are currently under challenge ).
The officers did not make any attempt to verify Sinthasomphone's age or identity, nor locate someone who could communicate with him, and failed to run a background check that would have revealed Dahmer being a convicted child molester still under probation.
If convicted of these charges, Lindh could have received up to three life sentences and 90 additional years in prison.
Other categories of persons not eligible for naturalization include convicted criminals, state officials and servicemen of armed forces of a foreign state, members of Communist Party as well as members of certain affiliate organizations, who, after 13 January 1991, have acted against the Latvian State.
Sanger was convicted ; the trial judge held that women did not have " the right to copulate with a feeling of security that there will be no resulting conception.
At worst, the warrants could have been construed as bribes to the money managers to influence decisions they made for their funds ( and indeed, several money managers were eventually convicted on bribery charges ).
Like most other crimes in the common law system, to be convicted of perjury one must have had the intention ( mens rea ) to commit the act, and to have actually committed the act ( actus reus ).
The pace of change, however, was sluggish ; the rehabilitation of Stalinist-era victims, such as those convicted in the Slánský trials, may have been considered as early as 1963, but did not take place until 1967.
A plea of autrefois convict ( Law French for " previously convicted ") is one in which the defendant claims to have been previously convicted of the same offence and that he or she therefore cannot be tried for it again.
He is shown exercising his authority as Chancellor by burning English Protestants who have been convicted of heresy.
Four police officers and three SNB officers have been convicted.
Our support of a State's option to impose the death penalty is limited to those who have been convicted of capital crimes.
Many English " witches " convicted of consorting with demons seem to have been cunning folk whose fairy familiars had been demonised ; many French devins-guerisseurs (" diviner-healers ") were accused of witchcraft, and over one half the accused witches in Hungary seem to have been healers.

have and bribery
* Al Yamamah contract alleged to have been obtained by bribery ( 1985 )
The election was sordid – even Cato, with his reputation for incorruptibility, is said to have resorted to bribery in favor of one of Caesar's opponents.
The bribery involved is ironic and a late ingredient, so the goddesses ' beauty, nudity, and sex appeal may have influenced Paris more originally, rather than the reward they may have given.
Since his death, there have been persistent unproven allegations that Askin, allegedly assisted by then Police Commissioner Norman Allan, oversaw the creation of a lucrative network of corruption and bribery that involved politicians, public servants and police and the nascent Sydney organised crime syndicates.
Memmius was also a tribune in 66, praetor in 58, governor of Bithynia in 57, and was a candidate for the consulship in 54 but was disqualified for bribery, and Stearns suggests that the warm relationship between patron and client may have cooled.
Blatter's 2002 candidacy has been marked with rumours of financial irregularities and backroom dealings, culminating with direct accusations of bribery, by a third party, made in the British press by Farra Ado, vice-president of the Confederation of African Football and president of the Somali Football Federation, who claimed to have been offered $ 100, 000 to vote for Blatter in 1998.
His connections with the Italian groups seem to have been quite strong, as they quickly joined his forces ( although accusations of bribery abound among the ancient historians ).
In recent years, efforts have been made by the international community to encourage countries to dissociate and incriminate as separate offences, active and passive bribery.
Furthermore, such a dissociation makes the prosecution of bribery offences easier since it can be very difficult to prove that two parties ( the bribe-giver and the bribe-taker ) have formally agreed upon a corrupt deal.
At this time Mattei is alleged to have widely used unofficial financial resources of Agip for extensive bribery, especially of politicians and journalists.
Both have been scrutinized by federal prosecutors, with several former county officials convicted of bribery and corruption.
He succeeded in effecting his escape by means of bribery, the expenses of which he is said to have paid by intercepting the money sent from France to Mary's aid.
But I would have used all < nowiki ></ nowiki >, all without exception, if I had been forced to do so: I wouldn't have said no to bribery or any other punishable behaviour.
Furthermore, several other employees have been arrested on charges of bribery.
Others have put forward more shadowy motives for the decision, including a secret plea by Louis XVI to avoid an action which might cost him his life, and even bribery of the Prussians, allegedly paid for with the Bourbon crown jewels.
) Bribers and recipients of bribery are likewise numerous although bribers have one common denominator and that is the financial ability to bribe.
As indicated on the pages devoted to political corruption, efforts have been made in recent years by the international community to encourage countries to dissociate and incriminate as separate offences, active and passive bribery.
Besides, such a dissociation makes the prosecution of bribery offences easier since it can be very difficult to prove that two parties ( the bribe-giver and the bribe-taker ) have formally agreed upon a corrupt deal.
Since that time, the majority of the OECD countries which are signatories of the convention have revised their tax policies according to this recommendation and some have extended the measures to bribes paid to any official, sending the message that bribery will no longer be tolerated in the operations of the government .< ref >“ Tax Treatment of Bribes: About ”, < u > OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration </ u >, OECD. org, 17 July 2007 < http :// www. oecd. org / about / 0, 3347, en_2649_34551_1_1_1_1_1, 00. html >.</ ref >
In the Byzantine Empire, there seems to have been more cheating ; Justinian I's reformed legal code prohibits drivers from placing curses on their opponents, but otherwise there does not seem to have been any mechanical tampering or bribery.

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