Impunity
/ɪmˈpjuːnəti/noun
Not being punished for doing something wrong.
Many criminals continue their actions with impunity, believing they will not be caught.
Often appears as...
- act with impunity
- escape with impunity
noun
Not being punished for doing something wrong.
Many criminals continue their actions with impunity, believing they will not be caught.
Often appears as...
- act with impunity
- escape with impunity
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Crime Connotation
Impunity often involves crimes or moral wrongdoings, not just small mistakes.
The dictator ruled with impunity, silencing any opposition.
Pro Tip 2/3Perceived Power
Impunity suggests someone has the power or influence to avoid punishment.
Corrupt officials often act with impunity due to their connections.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Emotion
The word 'impunity' can evoke feelings of injustice or frustration.
The community was outraged that the vandals operated with impunity.
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What happened when we...
And we desperately need the help of the private sector. We need the help of the tech industry. To help us develop -- not help us, we want them to develop -- information management systems, so we can all talk to each other and stop these perpetrators from raping and maiming and killing with impunity.
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A path to security for...
The corrupt city council wanted to give police even more impunity for brutality. It's a really common tactic that's used worldwide when politicians want to posture as tough on crime but don't actually want to change the status quo. And research shows it backfires all over the world.
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Hope for the Congo PIPE ...
world where women were raped often repeatedly with you know brickbats and glass and bottles and terrible terrible things suffering fistulas to the extent that local hospitals couldn't keep up a place where there is essentially complete impunity for some of the
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Refugees have the right...
is, unfortunately, much worse than what it was 10 years ago. There are no clear power relations in the world, no global governance mechanisms that work, which means that we live in a situation where impunity and unpredictability tend to prevail, and that means
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Tales of passion -...
forced labor they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed they have no control over their bodies or their lives they have no education and no freedom they are raped beaten up and sometimes killed with impunity for most
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Vincent Cochetel: I was...
and it's the same all over the world. This is unacceptable. This is inexcusable. Attacks on humanitarian aid workers are war crimes in international law. Those crimes should not go unpunished. We must end this cycle of impunity.
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Family, hope and...
in a region of the world where this has become the norm. Impunity thrives when all the state and governmental institutions fail to protect the individual. Too often, the result forces people to leave their homes and flee
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The Dark Side of Nature...
kills whereas a starlet bites lions can hunt anything they want with impunity camouflage is such that in black and white for example and to the monochromatic vision of any animal in that light level a lion on ordinary
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Tribal Beauty Pageant --...
going but nobody's gonna do a chipper duty but I do in number Dayton Canon impunity choleric oh my Newton say Beauregard with luque nobody Tatum tan and fool help demand what Veronica
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Hidden Cameras Film...
and to protect herself and her community is to expose their intimidation, to make sure they understand somebody is following them, to break the impunity they feel.
Video examples
What happened when we...
And we desperately need the help of the private sector. We need the help of the tech industry. To help us develop -- not help us, we want them to develop -- information management systems, so we can all talk to each other and stop these perpetrators from raping and maiming and killing with impunity.
Video examples
A path to security for...
The corrupt city council wanted to give police even more impunity for brutality. It's a really common tactic that's used worldwide when politicians want to posture as tough on crime but don't actually want to change the status quo. And research shows it backfires all over the world.
Video examples
Hope for the Congo PIPE ...
world where women were raped often repeatedly with you know brickbats and glass and bottles and terrible terrible things suffering fistulas to the extent that local hospitals couldn't keep up a place where there is essentially complete impunity for some of the
Video examples
Refugees have the right...
is, unfortunately, much worse than what it was 10 years ago. There are no clear power relations in the world, no global governance mechanisms that work, which means that we live in a situation where impunity and unpredictability tend to prevail, and that means
Video examples
Tales of passion -...
forced labor they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed they have no control over their bodies or their lives they have no education and no freedom they are raped beaten up and sometimes killed with impunity for most
Video examples
Vincent Cochetel: I was...
and it's the same all over the world. This is unacceptable. This is inexcusable. Attacks on humanitarian aid workers are war crimes in international law. Those crimes should not go unpunished. We must end this cycle of impunity.
Video examples
Family, hope and...
in a region of the world where this has become the norm. Impunity thrives when all the state and governmental institutions fail to protect the individual. Too often, the result forces people to leave their homes and flee
Video examples
The Dark Side of Nature...
kills whereas a starlet bites lions can hunt anything they want with impunity camouflage is such that in black and white for example and to the monochromatic vision of any animal in that light level a lion on ordinary
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Tribal Beauty Pageant --...
going but nobody's gonna do a chipper duty but I do in number Dayton Canon impunity choleric oh my Newton say Beauregard with luque nobody Tatum tan and fool help demand what Veronica
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Hidden Cameras Film...
and to protect herself and her community is to expose their intimidation, to make sure they understand somebody is following them, to break the impunity they feel.
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Cesare Beccaria
Italian Judge
To show men that crimes can be pardoned, and that punishment is not their inevitable consequence, encourages the illusion of impunity and induces the belief that, since there are pardons, those sentences which are not pardoned are violent acts of force rather than the products of justice.
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Gerard Batten
We should care that a foreign power can murder anyone on British soil with impunity. Allowing it to happen means that we cannot protect foreign agents who have rendered us service, thereby discouraging future double agents our security services might recruit.
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Peter Benenson
British Lawyer
Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or 'disappearance' to be carried out by their officials with impunity.
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Meir Kahane
American Clergyman
Never, ever deal with terrorists. Hunt them down and, more important, mercilessly punish those states and groups that fund, arm, support, or simply allow their territories to be used by the terrorists with impunity.
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Julius Caesar
Roman Leader
It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.
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Lisa Joy
American Director
The reality is that 'Westworld' is designed so that guests can indulge with impunity their every fantasy - be it light or dark. So the hosts experience the extremes in human behavior, good and bad.
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Opal Tometi
American Activist
We deserve to live in a world where there's no impunity, but beyond this question of impunity, there are all these structures that are actually doing a disservice to our people.
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Ingrid Betancourt
Colombian Politician
We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
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Prashant Bhushan
Indian Lawyer
I had said impunity of APSPA should be removed in order to win the hearts of the people of Kashmir.
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Lady Colin Campbell
British Writer
I think it's a flawed philosophy to believe impunity when it's inappropriate.
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Cesare Beccaria
Italian Judge
To show men that crimes can be pardoned, and that punishment is not their inevitable consequence, encourages the illusion of impunity and induces the belief that, since there are pardons, those sentences which are not pardoned are violent acts of force rather than the products of justice.
Quote examples
Gerard Batten
We should care that a foreign power can murder anyone on British soil with impunity. Allowing it to happen means that we cannot protect foreign agents who have rendered us service, thereby discouraging future double agents our security services might recruit.
Quote examples
Peter Benenson
British Lawyer
Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or 'disappearance' to be carried out by their officials with impunity.
Quote examples
Meir Kahane
American Clergyman
Never, ever deal with terrorists. Hunt them down and, more important, mercilessly punish those states and groups that fund, arm, support, or simply allow their territories to be used by the terrorists with impunity.
Quote examples
Julius Caesar
Roman Leader
It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.
Quote examples
Lisa Joy
American Director
The reality is that 'Westworld' is designed so that guests can indulge with impunity their every fantasy - be it light or dark. So the hosts experience the extremes in human behavior, good and bad.
Quote examples
Opal Tometi
American Activist
We deserve to live in a world where there's no impunity, but beyond this question of impunity, there are all these structures that are actually doing a disservice to our people.
Quote examples
Ingrid Betancourt
Colombian Politician
We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
Quote examples
Prashant Bhushan
Indian Lawyer
I had said impunity of APSPA should be removed in order to win the hearts of the people of Kashmir.
Quote examples
Lady Colin Campbell
British Writer
I think it's a flawed philosophy to believe impunity when it's inappropriate.
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