misconduct
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Universities should make fraternities internalize the cost of misconduct through liability insurance, mandatory reporting and sanctions with teeth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Police are investigating 18 alleged cases of misconduct within their ranks.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
Officers can still be prosecuted in the criminal courts and held accountable by police misconduct processes.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Special chief officer James Deller, who led the force's volunteer officers, was dismissed following a misconduct hearing on Friday.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
She hadn't dealt with the police much around the Morrison murder and didn't have useful information pointing to their misconduct, aside from being able to show how they were provoked by her relationship with Walter.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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That was just Tkachuk’s second point of the series, fewer than his three misconducts.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2023
Florida was whistled for 14 penalties, including two misconducts by Tkachuk, who insisted the Panthers are simply playing their brand of physical hockey.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
All three Florida goals were of the gritty variety from inside the crease, on a night where tempers flared with 19 penalties — four of them misconducts.
From Fox News ● Mar. 4, 2022
“Those misconducts, they are just unacceptable,” Rojas said of the allegations against Ellis.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2021
Speaking of the Monroe Doctrine, he said, "We do not guarantee any state against punishment, if it misconducts itself."
From Theodore Roosevelt and His Times by Harold Howland
He had also misconducted himself in a dispute with the Lord Chancellor respecting injunctions; moreover, he had insulted the king when called before him in the case of commendams.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various
In the first place, she is the daughter of people who flagrantly misconducted themselves--that apparently does her no harm.
From Lady Rose's Daughter by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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
I am authowized to call for fifty volunteers; but I wish you all distinctly to understand that no man who has in any way misconducted himself will be accepted.
From Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War by Harry Collingwood
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
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
If Charles is misconducting himself, I ought to know—and I will, sooner or later.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 October 7, 1893 by Various
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