The court of Deggendorf refused to process the case, saying that "it could not find a punishable act".

This is why liability would only arise when there is criminal intent or negligence in the commission of the punishable act.

This development also expands Europol's field of activity and includes all punishable acts in its sphere of competence.

It is written in the langue d'Oc, possession of which in those days was considered a heretical, punishable act.

Amnesty annuls the legal consequences of a punishable act, but it cannot prejudice the rights of individuals to compensation for damages.

Although voters were presented with only a single candidate, refraining from voting was considered a punishable act of defiance, and turnout was typically near 100 percent.

"We know that moral credibility suffers when one does not responsibly and rigorously deal with such horrendous, punishable acts," Father Langendörfer said.

In the U.S.S.R. people are not tried for their convictions but only for concrete punishable acts."

The major punishable acts are child pornography, libel, blasphemy, and hate speech/racism, which are restricted by the Danish penal code.

The Court of First Instance of Charleroi found no punishable acts according to the Belgian anti-discrimination law.

Private copies are still legal to own and personal use is not punishable; however any public show of the movie is a highly prohibited and punishable act.

It led the campaign to the eventually-successful repeal of sodomy from the list of punishable acts under Article 365 of the Criminal Code in 1999.

The true psychological instinct in anyone having committed a punishable act is to get as far away from the scene of it as the limits of this world will permit."

The current text provides for the obligation on all Member States to increase penalties for punishable acts of terrorism compared to the same acts without any terrorist intent.

When is inaction, as in the Kitty Genovese case (when in 1964 more than 30 people witnessed the stabbing of a Queens woman and only one called the police) a punishable act?

The debates which were held on this topic last Friday in the COREPER were about the very same punishment for punishable acts which are associated with terrorist groups.

Balko has advocated the abolition of laws criminalizing drunk driving, arguing that the "punishable act should be violating road rules or causing an accident, not the factors that led to those offenses.

An example of compulsion is where Y orders X to commit a punishable act, such as setting ablaze Z's motor car, and threatens to kill X if he fails to comply.

Young Taliban (the word means students), who grew up in a society where owning a television was a punishable act, gawked at images being transmitted by satellite from this dusty desert town to New York, London and Tokyo.

This is a punishable act in Germany, France, Israel, the Netherlands, Canada-just about everywhere where people believe that the government must intervene in order to protect those who might be disturbed and offended by the obscene lie.

Whoever as stubenältester, as foreman or as prisoner suspects or becomes aware of the intent to commit sedition, mutiny, sabotage or some other punishable act, if he does not immediately report his knowledge, will be punished as a perpetrator.

However, the Finnish Supreme Court has recently ruled in KKO:2010:7 that owning a pepper spray in itself is not a punishable act; but, on the other hand, carrying one can be punished as a device capable of harming other people.

The Codex adopted by the French National Assembly at the end of the eighteenth century abolished all punishments for suicide; and in the Sachsenspiegel, the principal foundation of Teuton law, it is plainly stated that suicide is not a punishable act.

Before the Sondergericht - one of Hitler's "special courts" - he declared Despite the speaking ban imposed on me, I shall preach further, even if the state authorities deem my pulpit speeches to be punishable acts and a misuse of the pulpit.

Interestingly, Kranzbühler, unlike many other critics of the Nuremberg Trials, did not argue that the substantive indictments made at Nuremberg were unjustified because the extension of the punishable acts was expanded by introducing new laws that had not existed prior to Nuremberg.