"honor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The offenses include domestic violence, rape, incest, child abuse and violent responses to so-called honor crimes, like adultery, that embarrass the clan, family or community.
- There have been 49 known "honor crimes," most involving female victims, during the past nine years - 16 in Berlin alone.
- At least 25 women are killed each year in such "honor crimes."
- In May 2010, the government decreed amendments to the penal code to ensure that "honor" crimes receive the full penalty of the law.
- Both women were killed at the hands of men or as victims of honor crime.
- Syrian law specifically provides for reduced or commuted sentences in "honor crimes", which involve violent assaults by a direct male relative against a female.
- No official statistics were kept on honor crimes, but there were scattered reports of them in the local media.
- The incidence of honor crimes is believed to be considerably higher in rural areas.
- This year's topic seems to be honor crimes, and the tendency to blame them on a particular religion, namely Islam.
- The group said it would collect thousands of signatures for a petition demanding harsher punishment against mostly male relatives who commit such "honor crimes."
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