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Innocent in sentence

1137 examples of Innocent in a sentence

Terrorism is basically taking an innocent stranger and treating them as an enemy whom you kill in order to create fear.
It's taking an innocent stranger and treating them as a friend whom you welcome into your home, in order to sow and create understanding or respect, or love.
Woman 2: Um ... I think he seems a little more innocent than the other guy.
And of course, the baby baboon was so innocent, it didn't turn and run.
Britlin was so innocent and so sweet, and her voice was so pure.
And Aicha started, and she said, "I don't know if my son is guilty or innocent, but I want to tell you how sorry I am for what happened to your families.
How can the nervous system misinterpret an innocent sensation like the touch of a hand and turn it into the malevolent sensation of the touch of the flame?
Sheila Phipps: Before my son went to jail, I used to see people be on television, fighting, saying, "Oh, this person didn't do it and this person is innocent."
But there are a lot of innocent people that's in jail.
EA: Sheila's son, McKinley, is one of those innocent people.
Since 1989, when DNA testing was first used to free innocent people, over 70 percent of overturned convictions were based on eyewitness testimony.
EA: Estimates of how many innocent people are locked up range between one and four percent, which maybe doesn't sound like a lot, except that it amounts to around 87,000 people: mothers, fathers, sons locked up, often for decades, for crimes they did not commit.
As a society, we are more willing to risk locking up innocent people than we are to let guilty people go free.
As Sheila Phipps said, there are people who belong in prison, but it's hard to tell the guilty from the innocent when everyone's outcomes are so similar.
The producer told us they were looking for some sweet, innocent and beautiful fresh face.
So when it was my turn, I stood up and said, "Why [do] women's personalities on television always have to be beautiful, sweet, innocent and, you know, supportive?
It's not only Innocent, who I told you about in Zimbabwe, but defenders all over the world who are looking for these pieces.
This is child psychologist Dr. Fredric Wertham, and in 1954, he wrote a book called "Seduction of the Innocent," where he argues that comic books cause juvenile delinquency.
We've gotten good at predicting and preparing for storms before they take innocent lives and cause irreversible damage, but we still can't do that with water, and here's why.
If the person doesn't follow directions, they may end up shooting them, and then find out afterwards either, yes, we shot the right person, or, no, this was just an innocent person who didn't understand what was going on.
But if they respond, there's a range of other people around who are innocent people, who might also get hurt.
We have a system of justice in this country that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent.
For every nine people who have been executed, we've actually identified one innocent person who's been exonerated and released from death row.
Wonder is honest, it's completely innocent.
Why do so many innocent people and animals suffer terrible things?
This feud has been going on since 1991 in Northeast Brazil in Pernambuco, and it involved the deaths of 20 members of the families and 40 others associated with the feud, including hired hit men, innocent bystanders and friends.
It begins with the murder of an innocent human being, and it's followed by a trial where the murderer is convicted and sent to death row, and that death sentence is ultimately upheld by the state appellate court.
They threw these hand grenades at innocent people as they sat eating in cafes and waited to catch trains on their way home from work.
And the man replied, "I'm just an innocent schoolteacher."
They go on to jam innocent GPS receivers for miles around you. (Laughter) Now, if you're Carol or Limor, or someone who feels threatened by GPS tracking, it might not feel wrong to turn on a Wave Bubble, but in fact, the results can be disastrous.
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