Antonym: defence. Similar words: fence, sit on the fence, difference, indifference, make a difference, offend, offense, stiffen. Meaning: [ə'fens] n. 1. the action of attacking an enemy 2. the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score 3. a feeling of anger caused by being offended 4. a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others 5. a crime less serious than a felony.
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(211) They saw red when he got away with the offence by waving his warrant card at a traffic warden.
(212) Note: Failure without reasonable excuse to comply with these requirements is a criminal offence.
(213) Using a vehicle in contravention of the relevant statutory provisions constitutes a criminal offence.
(214) For the driving offence and the assault charge Penn was thrown in the pen for two months.
(215) Turner was arrested after the first offence but released on bail and then carried out the second offence.
(216) From next month, it will be a criminal offence to give false or misleading descriptions of property for sale.
(217) I quite understand that this implication has caused offence or distress to some people, for which I apologise.
(218) Contravention of one of these orders is a criminal offence of the same type as those in the Trade Descriptions Act.
(219) He made a complaint that the record of his interview in relation to that offence contained fabricated admissions.
(220) This could take the form of compensating the victim of the offence or doing something else to assist the victim.
(221) At Mansfield a 20 year-old miner went to prison even though unconvicted of any offence for alleged breach of bail conditions.
(222) When an alibi was produced, they said the offence took place in May 1992.
(223) The official reason was that the painting was obscene and constituted an offence against religion.
(224) Consequently there are no cases in our books which show what the appropriate determinate sentence is specifically for that offence.
(225) The offence should be regarded as rape and carry the equivalent penalty and anonymity.
(226) Black people have always known racial violence to be a criminal offence and Black people always reported incidents to the police.
(227) A failure to comply with the Order is an offence under the above Act.
(228) The offence under s.47 is relatively serious,(sentencedict.com/offence.html) carrying a possible sentence of five years.
(229) Also receiving determinate prison sentences are those whose offence is reduced to manslaughter on a combined plea of provocation and diminished responsibility.
(230) Derby's Coleman was sent off late for his second bookable offence.
(231) Mr Macdonald had also been charged with a drink driving offence the previous evening.
(232) So long as the defendant does not communicate his intention, he commits no offence.
(233) One might well ask how important the element of criminal damage is to the rationale of the aggravated offence.
(234) He would then have reasonable cause to believe that an offence had been committed.
(235) Would Bonaventure return or take offence at not being fed by him and disappear for ever into the stinking alleyways?
(236) If there is an offence at all in such circumstances, it is probably under section 5 rather than section 4.
(237) Thus where the advertisement constitutes a criminal offence, it would seem pointless to complain to the Director General.
(238) They are men who will have committed an offence within the confines of their family and community.
(239) The offence would be committed by a single act of distribution, and the recipient may be a single person.
(240) The commission accepts that the basic offence might not lead to many convictions.
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