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Debauchees, adulterers, and gamblers, who had squandered their inheritances in gaming-dens, pot-houses, and brothels; anyone who had bankrupted himself to buy impunity for his infamous or criminal acts; men convicted anywhere of murder or sacrilege, or living in fear of conviction; cut-throats and perjurers, too, who made a trade of bearing false witness or shedding the blood of fellow citizens; in short, all who were in disgrace or afflicted by poverty or consciousness of guilt, were Catiline's intimate associates.
Cicero, Catiline, and Conspiracy: vying for control, Lucius Catiline conspired to become Rome's monarch, while Cicero worked to expose and thwart his plans and keep Rome's Republic alive
All these reasons undoubtedly played a part in dissuading potential perjurers.
The mysterious power of words: language, law, and culture in Ottoman Damascus (17th-18th centuries)
In 1873, he wrote, ``the highest offices in the land can still continue to be occupied by perjurers and robbers; if another Congress (like the 42nd) consisting of 15 honest men and 296 of the other kind can be once more created, it will at last be time, I fear, to give over trying to save the country by human means, and appeal to providence.
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Not throwing perjurers into prison would send an open invitation to the criminally minded.
PAUL DALE: Straight Talking; Theatre's glory days are firmly in the past
And while Abu-Jamal has been on death row, the Philadelphia Police Department has been exposed as a safe haven for perjurers, thugs and frame-up artists.
Death and the maidens
These passages thus offer no decisive evidence on the gravity of perjury, any more than we can take seriously the assertion that all the members of the Athenian audience are perjurers (and father-beaters as well: Frogs 274 ff.
By gods, tongues, and dogs: the use of oaths in Aristophanic comedy
The petitioners requested the apex court to order the registrars of high courts to make fresh rules under Article 202 of the Constitution and Section 122 of the CPC for imposing cost on litigants and prosecution of perjurers, stipulate maximum time limit for different kinds of suits, petitions and appeals and regulate alternative dispute resolution, in addition to discipline the lawyers abusing the process of the court.
Fresh rules for lower courts sought
In politics, there is no place for the corrupt, for perjurers and those engaging in bribes.
Mudslinging escalates in Phedonos-Papadopoulos spat
If God has no place in court, perjurers can sleep easy, knowing they can lie through their teeth despite having taken that oath.
Room for God in court of law?
What is important is that all those falsely denounced by him and his allies as liars, plotters, perjurers and forgers have been cleared.
Sheridan is facing jail for lies over sex club visit; POLITICS
I think that the oppositioneIUs refusal to name its representatives for membership of Supreme Commission for Election and Referendum (SCER) was enough to scandalize the regime that the opposition parties doneIUt accept to be perjurers in the election.
Opposition: Between participation and boycotting (Opinion)
A few may sense the distant jangle of a sure-fire, jackpot libel payout, but there are plenty of bankrupts and convicted perjurers to attest that this is a strategy fraught with risk.
I realised that I was eminently qualified to become a High Court judge..

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