misconduct
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Barrera was not accused of sexual misconduct but was swept out of office alongside Kasparian in 2018.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Rockstar has denied those allegations at the employment tribunal in Glasgow and alleges workers were sacked for "gross misconduct" following the sharing of confidential information in an online forum.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The inquiry also heard evidence of misconduct by police officers and staff in the aftermath of the attacks, including inappropriate access to the case and digital evidence.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Chavez-DeRemer resigned in April—a little more than a year into the job—amid growing reports of workplace misconduct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
He had recently asked me to help him with an Alabama civil rights case involving law enforcement misconduct.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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It also caused a scrum that resulted in six penalties, including two unsportsmanlike penalties and two misconducts.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2023
Neither front has seen much improvement for the Panthers, who took 14 penalties, including six misconducts and another for abuse of officials in the blowout loss.
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
"It is impossible that any one should be happy who misconducts herself."
From Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope
The apparent insinuation that he had misconducted himself while on his parole of good behaviour, was one of the things he could least endure.
From Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa by H.C. Adams
His defense was an alibi, an attempt, that is, to prove that he was elsewhere on the night when he was alleged to have misconducted himself at Rome.
From Roman life in the days of Cicero by Alfred John Church
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
T.—Is probably Tallien, who had misconducted himself in Egypt.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Henry Foljambe Hall
You know as well as I do, that unless you had misconducted yourself, you might have been as happy now as you were when I saw you after your return from Bury.
From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Richard Cobbold
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
A sailor misconducting himself on the voyage, has at least two months' reflection in the jail of Williamstown, commencing immediately upon his arrival.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various
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