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How to use the word criminalizing in a Sentence?

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You want to know what this was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.

– John Ehrlichman

added by Normando
1 month ago

It is not hard to make a connection to the hateful and bigoted rhetoric used by this administration. The continual use of such rhetoric and the policies singling out and criminalizing Muslims, immigrants and asylum-seekers has normalized hate speech.

– Hussam Ayloush

added by ayloush
1 year ago

That House Democrats' final act in the majority was to strike one last blow in their relentless war against Donald Trump — in the process running roughshod over the very norms and institutions they so claim to cherish — marks a fitting end to their progressive rule, and tells you all you need to know about their priorities and posture as they lose their grip on power, this was of a piece with the Soviet show trial-style January 6th Committee that recently reached its unceremonious conclusion, the primary purpose of which was never to unearth truth or hold people to account, but to politically persecute political foes declared guilty at the outset while the Biden Justice Department does the Democrats' legal bidding in criminalizing its political opponents.

– Benjamin Weingarten

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

John is an outspoken advocate for weed legalization and has always believed we should not be criminalizing addiction, but he does not support decriminalizing all drugs including heroin, methamphetamines and other hard drugs in Pennsylvania, john believes we need to make sure we are locking up drug dealers who are pushing and profiting from hard drugs, while making sure that people get real help if they are addicted.

– Joe Calvello

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Your Republican leaders, they're banning books, making it harder to vote, restricting speech in classrooms, even criminalizing women and doctors.

– Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When the state supports this kind of discourse in any way by criminalizing women for the way they dress or how they present themselves, it gives a green light for these people, this happens a lot.

– Lobna Darwish

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Where is the outrage about young people being unfairly treated, joe Biden's Justice Department is criminalizing political protest.

– Louie Gohmert

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Criminalizing political opposition research-related activity of this type serves no criminal justice purpose, hopefully, this verdict will have a chilling impact on future prosecutions if John Durham intends to proceed using the same flawed theory of criminal liability.

– Michael Zeldin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This sounds great, but commercial facial recognition technologies used by Amazon, IBM and Microsoft have been found to be 40 % inaccurate when identifying Black people, so this will lead to Black people being more likely to be misidentified as attempting to commit fraud, potentially criminalizing them.

– Mutale Nkonde

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Over the past 18 years, we've seen tremendous advances in the ability to serve survivors, coming out of situations like that, and much more awareness of how social inequality, and even the criminal justice systems, focuses on criminalizing victims of trafficking for crimes like prostitution, rather than rather than sex buyers who have full have decision making over who they exploit.

– Robert Beiser

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We fear that there are other unreported cases every year. Women and girls in Iran face domestic violence on a widespread basis, and the Iranian authorities have consistently failed in their obligations to protect the lives and safety of women and girls, iranian authorities have yet to adopt specific legislation criminalizing gender-based violence against women and girls, including domestic violence, marital rape, and early and forced marriage, all of which remain widespread.

– Raha Bahreini

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

So then we get to Lawrence v. Texas, which was a Texas law criminalizing sodomy, and judicial activism ignored the immorality of homosexuality and created this fabricated right to privacy that was in the penumbra of the Constitution and determined that homosexuality is within that right to privacy in the penumbra of the Constitution. And the Supreme Court with judicial activist motivations overturn that law.

– Jenna Ellis

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The government must end the persistent repression of dissent and the ongoing pattern of arbitrary arrests and refrain from criminalizing and attacking human rights defenders, political opponents and any other dissenting voices.

– Rupert Colville

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

With due respect, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick's' proposals' would resurrect the same broken, Bloomberg-funded failures that were attempted under the Obama administration, like most political gambits, Lt. Gov. Patrick's' solution' precedes Dan Patrick possession of the facts, including this critical concession by the Obama administration : Criminalizing private firearm transfers would require a massive, governmental gun registration scheme.

– The NRA

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This moment in abortion politics is unprecedented, i would speculate that these policies risk larger turnout in favor of Democratic candidates for the majority of Americans who do not support criminalizing abortion.

– Claire McKinney

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This is a very concerning expansion of the ways in which trans people are going to be and have been policed, it’s essentially just criminalizing trans existence.

– Chase Strangio

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our country has suffered the harmful effects of drug-linked organized crime. Thankfully, a new global consensus is gradually gathering steam in favor of a reform to the international drug regime, instead of criminalizing consumers, it will offer alternatives and opportunities.

– Pena Nieto

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

These alleged charge papers therefore indicate that there is a conspiracy to topple a serving Prime Minister by criminalizing him, and that the methods include doctoring and criminal leakage.

– Mohamed Apandi Ali

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In the midst of our collective grief, I pray we avoid criminalizing or casting collective blame on entire communities for the actions committed by one or even a small number of individuals.

– Gabriel Salguero

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It will be -- when this legislation passes -- a criminal act to support terrorism, so, that is criminalizing speech rather than behavior. That one, I bet, will be tested in the courts.

– Janice Stein

Found on CNN
10 years ago

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