misconduct
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Notwithstanding "serious failures" in the process that led to the killings, "the decisions of the commanders did not raise reasonable suspicion of criminal misconduct," the IDF said.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Azari said in April that he denied all allegations of sexual misconduct and assault and would pursue “every legal remedy” against those making the claims.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Technology executive Mark Hurd left Hewlett-Packard in 2010 amid claims of misconduct involving a relationship with a female contractor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
It confirmed a Supreme Court justice facing sexual misconduct allegations.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 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
Both hits resulted in game misconducts, but it didn’t appear further punishment was coming for Lomberg the way it came for Oleksiak.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
“However,” she said, “the system that has allowed these misconducts remains.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
"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
"It is impossible that any one should be happy who misconducts herself."
From Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope
I shouldn’t have got in to-night, but the misconducted body’s asleep, though I’ll say it’s the first time I saw him sleeping these four days.
From We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
T.—Is probably Tallien, who had misconducted himself in Egypt.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Henry Foljambe Hall
And then, though he would have gone to a desert island with his wife, had such exile been necessary for her protection, he did believe that she had misconducted herself.
From Is He Popenjoy? by Anthony Trollope
That to Colonel Hodges was most strongly worded, calling on him to address Mohhammad Ali in writing to urge him to compensate the sufferers and remove those officers who had misconducted themselves in Damascus.
From Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume I Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries From 1812 to 1883 by Louis Loewe
The practice of compelling girls who had misconducted themselves to stand in church for three Sundays was only given up at Pickering in the first quarter of the nineteenth century.
From The Evolution of an English Town by Gordon Home
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
What balderdash has been spoken and written about poor Jack everlastingly misconducting himself!
From The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century by Walter Runciman
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