misconduct
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“Singling them out for something they had nothing to do with — alleged misconduct on the part of my firm or recruiters — is I think just patently unfair,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Michigan said that the law firm had not found widespread misconduct in athletics, and didn’t detail issues within other sports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The state, aware of the misconduct findings in Ohio, granted a temporary one that has since expired.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
The misconduct investigation has put the institution under a glaring spotlight, intensified divisions inside it and played out alongside an unprecedented campaign to weaken, and in fact dismantle, the ICC in its entirety.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
State governments are broadly shielded from recovery for their employees' misconduct unless the employee works for an agency that can be sued.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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They took four penalties in the first 50-plus minutes of the game and then many more, including three misconducts, in a late scuffle.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 4, 2023
Vegas’ Chandler Stephenson and Jonathan Marchessault were assessed misconducts, along with Edmonton’s Kailer Yamamoto and Evander Kane earlier in the period.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2023
"I started skating towards him but I'm about 50 feet away from the guy. I'm getting misconducts for just talking now. Not quite sure what that's about. What are you going to do?"
From Fox News ● Oct. 29, 2021
“Those misconducts, they are just unacceptable,” Rojas said of the allegations against Ellis.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2021
The criminal who has completed his sentence ought to be deemed to have purged his offence, and has a right to return to the community and obtain work until, if ever, he again misconducts himself.
From The Empire of the East by Montgomery, H. B. (Helen Barrett)
It was at such times that the staff of “The Opp Eagle” misconducted itself.
From Mr. Opp by Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan
I myself only saw Lady Rose once, so far as I remember, before she misconducted herself.
From Lady Rose's Daughter by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
"Nechutes has misconducted himself," she objected, "and I would not be left alone with him."
From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Miller, Elizabeth
The universal complaint of the Spanish or national party in the time of Christina was, that the queen's education was neglected, or, it should rather be said, misconducted.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
Over six hundred of these offenders were put in prison, not because they asked for "Votes for Women," but because they deliberately, persistently, and recklessly misconducted themselves.
From The Leading Facts of English History by Montgomery, D. H. (David Henry)
If that's agreed, detectives will then look for evidence that the incident in question saw the suspect "wilfully" neglecting to perform their duty or wilfully misconducting themselves in some other way.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
Tilt, 31, pleaded guilty at Birmingham Crown Court to wilfully misconducting himself in public office.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2022
Tilt, of Barley Green, Birmingham, admitted wilfully misconducting himself in public office at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2022
Thus a lot of people are misconducting themselves like this, and would enjoy programming that makes them feel represented in the media.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2017
However flagrantly I had now been misconducting myself, I had a large balance of gratitude to draw upon.
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)
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