Misdemeanours

As banks become increasingly strict, would-be borrowers can be turned down for misdemeanours as slight as a couple of missed credit card payments in the recent past.

Congress itself can act, by invoking its power of impeachment, which it can do in any case to convict a president or other official of “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanours”, and then voting to remove them from office.

The 30-year-old was arrested and detained five times in the space of two months over the summer for a series of misdemeanours including swearing at passers-by and disobeying police officers, according to Russian court records.

Strikers were simply detained, held under arrest and jailed for the tiniest misdemeanours.

At the heart of Donald Trump's impeachment is a constitution that ensures Congress has the means to oust a president or public official who partakes in "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanours".

But when the chairman of the Judiciary Committee charged the president with "high crimes and misdemeanours", it still made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

Neither player wanted to back down, with Murray furious with Fognini’s behaviour while the Italian – who has a long list of misdemeanours – laughed it off and told Murray to have a sense of humour.

Noah Feldman, a Harvard Law School professor, said he considered it clear that the president’s conduct met the definition of “high crimes and misdemeanours.

The court referred him to the Court of Misdemeanours to stand trial on those charges, citing that the offences committed were out of its jurisdiction.

These laws turned minor misdemeanours into offences and criminalised a generation of youth according to race and class.

It took the intervention of the club’s executive to convince Mutasa to accept Mukamba back into the team, as the pair’s relationship had broken down irretrievably after the latter’s misdemeanours at the end of last term.

Moore is not a stranger to controversy, having hit the headlines for many misdemeanours during his rugby career, such as breaking his jaw on a night out while with Widnes and being sacked by the club amid rumours of a failed drugs test.

Nearly 5,000 felonies will be reviewed and, if appropriate, re-sentenced to misdemeanours.

The Cairo misdemeanours court convicted her of having spread “false news”.

The soft-spoken but blunt John Mangudya, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, rarely minces his words when exposing any market misdemeanours he encounters in his daily work.

After only a year, Leonardo made a list of his misdemeanours, calling him "a thief, a liar, stubborn, and a glutton", after he had made off with money and valuables on at least five occasions and spent a fortune on clothes.

Detailed licensing records were kept, giving the Public House, its address, owner, licensee and misdemeanours of the licensees, often going back for hundreds of years.

Early in the Long Parliament's proceedings the house overwhelmingly accused Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford of high treason and other crimes and misdemeanours.

He wrote that he took a stern line against financial impropriety, but was angered at the way in which a host of scandals, many of them petty sexual misdemeanours by a small number of MPs, were exploited by the press and Opposition for political advantage.

Misdemeanours (Vergehen) are all other crimes punishable by imprisonment of less than one year or by fine.