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  • Dina is constantly rolling her eyes, muttering under her breath about Molly's various infractions—didn't put away her laundry, left a bowl in the sink, can't be bothered to make her bed—all of which are part and parcel of the liberal agenda that's ruining this country.†   (source)
  • Any other employee would've been out the door a dozen minor infractions ago.†   (source)
  • I will not wage war against Earth for this infraction.†   (source)
  • Withholding my alleged paycheck for some imaginary infraction.†   (source)
  • There were repeated infractions leading up to that.†   (source)
  • Mommy was furious that her shy, intellectual son-she was always so proud of David and would literally have carried his books to school for him if he had asked her to-was placed before a judge, who asked him to announce whether he was "guilty" of the traffic infraction or not.†   (source)
  • Or does he sit up nights searching out a Verse for every potential infraction, and store this ammunition at the ready for his daughters?†   (source)
  • Below the schedule, the girls had added rules and amendments, and a list of violations and fines for infractions concerning the use of the sink, toilet, and shower, as well as a proclamation on what constituted the right to privacy versus a TRUE EMERGENCY (underlined three times).†   (source)
  • After the year before, when my mother had been reduced to tears and Stewart had been clocked in the head with a pole, rendering him temporarily unconscious, my father had broken down and recruited a few fraternity brothers who were on thin ice for hazing infractions to help us.†   (source)
  • He was exceedingly careful not to commit any minor traffic infraction.†   (source)
  • Only Michael Wayland was unsure, as I was, but despite our reluctance we followed still; as a group we hunted Downworlders tirelessly, seeking those who had committed even the slightest infraction.†   (source)
  • Though Aberrations usually acquire their status due to an Infraction, they are protected; their identities aren't usually common knowledge.†   (source)
  • Two infractions in one week.†   (source)
  • And as the Chancellor's son, only the most public of infractions would land him in Confinement.†   (source)
  • He knows this is the kind of infraction I was instructed to ignore.†   (source)
  • Her fuse was as short as I had seen it, and the smallest infractions—a cupboard door left open, crumbs on the counter—would set her off.†   (source)
  • The executions moved in waves, and once a neighborhood had been purged it could then expect a measure of respite, until someone committed an infraction of some kind, because infractions, although often alleged with a degree of randomness, were invariably punished without mercy.†   (source)
  • The slightest infractions were swiftly punished.†   (source)
  • I asked her then why she hadn't called the boys on their infraction the moment she noticed it.†   (source)
  • His mother knew him well and sensed we were up to no good, but the guardia on the property meant no diddling with minor infractions: it was everybody to their houses, bureau tops cleaned off, portable objects battened down.†   (source)
  • How many before him had gotten this far only to get sent back for some stupid infraction?†   (source)
  • Bratton turned the transit police into an organization focused on the smallest infractions, on the details of life underground.†   (source)
  • My out-of-bounds infraction was a minor one, a 300-series shot, along the same lines of refusing to obey a direct order, participating in an unauthorized meeting or gathering, failing to stand for count, giving or accepting anything of value to or from another inmate, possession of nonhazardous contraband; and indecent exposure.†   (source)
  • And the Volturi's response to this kind of infraction was so automatic, it was already decided.†   (source)
  • The minor infractions of youth—in one case an act committed at age eight—prevented two from ever being trusted again.†   (source)
  • Would you still think London was so charming when you were the subject of cruel gossip for the slightest infraction of the rules?†   (source)
  • The waivers he'd signed made it clear: one drug infraction and he was gone—out of the Navy and perhaps into a military prison.†   (source)
  • 'Chaplain,' he continued, looking up, 'we accuse you also of the commission of crimes and infractions we don't even know about yet.†   (source)
  • "One more 'infraction' and they'll suspend me."†   (source)
  • The Supreme Court had even had its doubts: although they still ruled that capital punishment was constitutional, they'd halted executions of two inmates on a narrower issue: whether the excessive pain caused by lethal injection was a civil rights infraction that could be argued in a lower court.†   (source)
  • He d heard that any infraction against the royal house was punishable by death to the perpetrator s entire family.†   (source)
  • Punishments were at least as varied as infractions.†   (source)
  • Oswald was kicked out of the Corps for a series of minor infractions.†   (source)
  • Three months ago, he had been fired for an infraction of safety rules, which had caused a major wreck; two weeks ago, he had been reinstated in his job by order of the Unification Board.†   (source)
  • "Gross rifle—SMI," he said to the guidon corporal, who marked down my infraction.†   (source)
  • This man must be disciplined for gross infractions.†   (source)
  • Number 50: Periodic Conventions to Correct Infractions†   (source)
  • This is the most serious level of infraction.†   (source)
  • DR. PALLENI: Two infractions in one week, Peg.†   (source)
  • For once we do that, the Infraction will have been committed.†   (source)
  • Did he think she was such a terrible person that she would have committed an infraction?†   (source)
  • Dozens of men were lined up and clubbed in the knees for one man's alleged infraction.†   (source)
  • If you succeed, your infractions will be forgiven, and you'll be able to start new lives on Earth."†   (source)
  • "You haven't committed an Infraction, Cassia.†   (source)
  • The penalty for this and for any other Level Four Infraction is expulsion.†   (source)
  • They'd never caused any trouble before, so they got off without an Infraction.†   (source)
  • That is the kind of Infraction that no one can overlook.†   (source)
  • "When they called me out of school over the port, the message said I'd committed an Infraction."†   (source)
  • Ky's classification is because of his father's Infraction.†   (source)
  • It isn't only myself and Ky and Xander I'll hurt if I commit an Infraction.†   (source)
  • What Infraction did your father commit that made you an Aberration?†   (source)
  • It's been a long time since someone here committed an Infraction.†   (source)
  • We were routinely charged for the smallest infractions and sentenced to isolation.†   (source)
  • Would they prevent and correct infractions of the Constitution?†   (source)
  • If they're his crimes and infractions, he must have committed them.†   (source)
  • Independent judges are an essential safeguard against bad laws, not just Constitutional infractions.†   (source)
  • But he was confident that between Zeitoun's reputation, lack of any prior infractions, and this showing of character witnesses—a wide swath of upstanding New Orleanians—the judge would release Abdulrahman Zeitoun with profuse apologies.†   (source)
  • She scolds me in front of the other girls for minor infractions and mistakes—not folding my bed linen as tightly as I should have or leaving the door to the kitchen ajar.†   (source)
  • The executions moved in waves, and once a neighborhood had been purged it could then expect a measure of respite, until someone committed an infraction of some kind, because infractions, although often alleged with a degree of randomness, were invariably punished without mercy.†   (source)
  • Our orders are to apprehend you by force if necessary and return you to your legal guardian. if you come peaceably, this infraction will not be recorded on your permanent record.†   (source)
  • No sooner had Louie stepped outside than the Bird found him, accused him of an imaginary infraction, and attacked him in a wild fury.†   (source)
  • While what is involved here is only a minor infraction, more acting out than anything else, there may be some personal problems with the boy (at home?†   (source)
  • She explained, "Your violation is called a 'Level Four Infraction,' in this case, 'assaulting a teacher or other School Board employee.'†   (source)
  • Straightforward rule infraction.†   (source)
  • "So," Graham went on, his friendly tone at odds with the hostile glint in his eyes, "what was your infraction?"†   (source)
  • His father had apparently spent the past six weeks trying to recast Wells as some kind of rebel, reprogramming his memories to help him understand why his son, formerly a star student and now the highest-ranked cadet, had committed the most public infraction in history.†   (source)
  • I've got serious infractions.†   (source)
  • If he was caught posing as a guard, the list of infractions would be endless: bribery, blackmail, identity theft, conspiracy, and whatever else the Council felt like adding to the mix.†   (source)
  • But his father committed an Infraction.†   (source)
  • "I'm sure that a citation of the highest order will be issued, with the next error resulting in a complete Infraction."†   (source)
  • But what about the Infraction?†   (source)
  • What Infraction have I committed?†   (source)
  • Infraction.†   (source)
  • Infractions.†   (source)
  • According to state law, any speeding infraction over a hundred miles an hour earned the driver an immediate escort to jail.†   (source)
  • It only takes one infraction, one whiff of scandal, to ruin your reputation and your chances forever.†   (source)
  • Now it seemed they'd stick around until they were run out of town for owing money or small legal infractions (it had happened before) or just got bored.†   (source)
  • Races in that day were not yet filmed with head-on and side-shot patrol cameras to police for riding infractions, so there was a good chance that Ligaroti would not be disqualified if his nose hit the wire first.†   (source)
  • They can always charm their way out of a certain amount of trouble, but for Ann, an infraction could be her undoing.†   (source)
  • Through some astounding infraction of safety rules-in circumstances not yet fully established-the Comet, westbound for San Francisco, was sent into the tunnel with a coal-burning steam locomotive.†   (source)
  • State prohibitions would not be obeyed if the federal government didn't have the power to stop or correct the infractions of them.†   (source)
  • But Granny and Aunt Addie quarreled and fought not only with me, but with each other over minor points of religious doctrine, or over some imagined infraction of what they chose to call their moral code.†   (source)
  • Then people can't say you're attacking them to excuse your own infractions."†   (source)
  • All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished.†   (source)
  • He who punishes infractions of the law is therefore the real master of society.†   (source)
  • Was he concentric with infraction and repression?†   (source)
  • This is an affliction to them, and causes them consternation as an infraction of the rules.†   (source)
  • For either the fishermen or the golfers to have changed their habits would have been an infraction of their self-imposed discipline which would have shocked all right-thinking and regularized citizens.†   (source)
  • …in something like Pickerbaugh's best manner: "Gentlemen of the Steel Windmill Industries, than which there is no other that has so largely contributed to the prosperity of our commonwealth, while I realize that you are getting away with every infraction of the health laws that the inspector doesn't catch you at, yet I desire to pay a tribute to your high respect for sanitation, patriotism, and cocktails, and if I only had an assistant more earnest than young Arrowsmith, I should, with…†   (source)
  • He had seen much service, been in various engagements, always acquitting himself as an officer mindful of the welfare of his men, but never tolerating an infraction of discipline; thoroughly versed in the science of his profession, and intrepid to the verge of temerity, though never injudiciously so.†   (source)
  • After that, you will verify the infractions of police regulations which have been reported to me in the Rue Guibourg, at Widow Doris's, and Rue du Garraud-Blanc, at Madame Renee le Bosse's, and you will prepare documents.†   (source)
  • The song and the jest were exchanged—the stories of former deeds were told with advantage; and at length, and while boasting of their successful infraction of the laws, no one recollected they were speaking in presence of their natural guardian.†   (source)
  • A rose lay beside her, and if she now and then glanced at the flower, it was with no infraction of her usual preoccupied air.†   (source)
  • "I mean spinach," replied Aramis; "but on your account I will add some eggs, and that is a serious infraction of the rule-for eggs are meat, since they engender chickens."†   (source)
  • There is then no just ground for surprise if a man, who in an age of aristocracy chooses to consult nothing but his own opinion and his own taste in the choice of a wife, soon finds that infractions of morality and domestic wretchedness invade his household: but when this same line of action is in the natural and ordinary course of things, when it is sanctioned by parental authority and backed by public opinion, it cannot be doubted that the internal peace of families will be increased…†   (source)
  • Dantes would not allow that any such infraction of regular and proper rules should be made in his favor.†   (source)
  • It was never their intention to found a permanent state of things with elements which undergo daily modifications; and there is consequently nothing criminal in an attack upon the existing laws, provided it be not attended with a violent infraction of them.†   (source)
  • The disease and deformity around us certify the infraction of natural, intellectual, and moral laws, and often violation on violation to breed such compound misery.†   (source)
  • …nothing to lose by them; and if the laws of a democracy are not always worthy of respect, at least they always obtain it; for those who usually infringe the laws have no excuse for not complying with the enactments they have themselves made, and by which they are themselves benefited, whilst the citizens whose interests might be promoted by the infraction of them are induced, by their character and their stations, to submit to the decisions of the legislature, whatever they may be.†   (source)
  • M. Madeleine had retained his seat near the fire, pen in hand, his eyes fixed on the docket which he was turning over and annotating, and which contained the trials of the commission on highways for the infraction of police regulations.†   (source)
  • She has indeed entered into a solemn compact of union with the other States; but she demands, and will exercise, the right of putting her own construction upon it; and when this compact is violated by her sister States, and by the Government which they have created, she is determined to avail herself of the unquestionable right of judging what is the extent of the infraction, and what are the measures best fitted to obtain justice.†   (source)
  • However things might stand,—and it was to this point that he reverted constantly,—one fact dominated everything else for him, and that was, that he had just committed a terrible infraction of the law.†   (source)
  • ] In England the jury is returned from the aristocratic portion of the nation; *f the aristocracy makes the laws, applies the laws, and punishes all infractions of the laws; everything is established upon a consistent footing, and England may with truth be said to constitute an aristocratic republic.†   (source)
  • Some days later, one morning, when the sun was shining brightly, and they were both on the steps leading to the garden, another infraction of the rules which Jean Valjean seemed to have imposed upon himself, and to the custom of remaining in her chamber which melancholy had caused Cosette to adopt, Cosette, in a wrapper, was standing erect in that negligent attire of early morning which envelops young girls in an adorable way and which produces the effect of a cloud drawn over a star;…†   (source)
  • In summer, he metamorphoses himself into a frog; and in the evening, when night is falling, in front of the bridges of Austerlitz and Jena, from the tops of coal wagons, and the washerwomen's boats, he hurls himself headlong into the Seine, and into all possible infractions of the laws of modesty and of the police.†   (source)
  • No alliance, however strict, between the parts can be an adequate substitute; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions which all alliances in all times have experienced.†   (source)
  • An ordinary degree of vigilance would be competent to the prevention of any material infractions upon the rights of the revenue.†   (source)
  • The infractions of these regulations, on one side, the efforts to prevent and repel them, on the other, would naturally lead to outrages, and these to reprisals and wars.†   (source)
  • But it is not with a view to infractions of the Constitution only, that the independence of the judges may be an essential safeguard against the effects of occasional ill humors in the society.†   (source)
  • No man of sense will believe, that such prohibitions would be scrupulously regarded, without some effectual power in the government to restrain or correct the infractions of them.†   (source)
  • The treaties of the United States, under the present Constitution, are liable to the infractions of thirteen different legislatures, and as many different courts of final jurisdiction, acting under the authority of those legislatures.†   (source)
  • To the People of the State of New York: IT MAY be contended, perhaps, that instead of OCCASIONAL appeals to the people, which are liable to the objections urged against them, PERIODICAL appeals are the proper and adequate means of PREVENTING AND CORRECTING INFRACTIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION.†   (source)
  • Should it unhappily be necessary to appeal to these delicate truths for a justification for dispensing with the consent of particular States to a dissolution of the federal pact, will not the complaining parties find it a difficult task to answer the MULTIPLIED and IMPORTANT infractions with which they may be confronted?†   (source)
  • …it is not to be inferred from this principle, that the representatives of the people, whenever a momentary inclination happens to lay hold of a majority of their constituents, incompatible with the provisions in the existing Constitution, would, on that account, be justifiable in a violation of those provisions; or that the courts would be under a greater obligation to connive at infractions in this shape, than when they had proceeded wholly from the cabals of the representative body.†   (source)
  • If there should not be a large army constantly at the disposal of the national government it would either not be able to employ force at all, or, when this could be done, it would amount to a war between parts of the Confederacy concerning the infractions of a league, in which the strongest combination would be most likely to prevail, whether it consisted of those who supported or of those who resisted the general authority.†   (source)
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