What is "criminals"

Usage examples of "criminals".

High-ranking criminals bound for the Siberian taiga, and it's where they deserve to go.

Then he thought of the professor sitting alone in the last wagon among a pack of hardened criminals, of Jansci and all the others who were depending on him, of the girl who had turned her back on him when he had made to say good-bye, and the next moment he was on his feet, gasping as the bulleting snow lashed cruelly across his exposed face and sucked the breath from his lungs.

Being thrown into the Szarhaza had made him more furious than ever, and the final indignity of being imprisoned in the same freezing cattle truck as a band of hardened criminals had completed his conversion in no uncertain fashion.

Dunnet is a senior officer of the Special Branch of New Scotland Yard and a member of Interpol and he has accumulated enough evidence against you, for aiding and abetting criminals, to ensure that you'll spend the next few years in a remand home and Borstal.

Associating with criminals is not a crime in itself and there's not a single shred of evidence against you.

They didn't look like criminals, unless a couple of prosperous young commuters from the stockbroker belt could be called criminals.

And has it ever occurred to you that if you were to be the only hostage left on the Golden Gate Bridge the Government, in the person of your Vice-President who would just love to sit behind that table in the Oval Office, might be sorely tempted to achieve some sort of immortality by wiping out this monstrous band of criminals who have kidnapped you and your Arabian friends?

So, on the other hand, were a number of famous - notorious, rather - and highly successful criminals in the past.

And he got on to the possibility that those criminals might come from another country in a fraction of the time that it took us to arrive at the possibility - and, unlike us, he had nothing to help or guide him towards that conclusion.

Neither of them looked the slightest bit like a bona fide member of the criminal classes but, then, few successful criminals ever did.

I've got to go out and see some desperate criminals and I can't afford to be upset.

It has apparently never occurred to you that those criminals have their moles and informants pretty thick on the ground and that the presence of even one extra policeman will be immediately reported.

But criminals - especially people who are not habitual criminals, and I assume van Rees is not - often overlook the obvious.

We know, of course, that petty criminals have in the past sold Russian and other eastern bloc weapons to the Irish Republican Army.

Cops and criminals generally have a working knowledge of each other.