(1) How did they live with themselves, knowing they would commit such a heinous act?(2) Yes, human life is the most sacred thing and taking other people's lives is a heinous act.(3) But his mind's eye isn't fraught with mournful replays of a life cut short by a heinous crime.(4) Such sentiments have been fed by lurid newspaper stories of heinous crimes committed by non-Japanese.(5) The decision of the Home Secretary was based on the fact that some crimes are so heinous as to justify life imprisonment.(6) Well some incredibly good things have come about because of it, but some heinous atrocities were carried out in its name.(7) Her angelic appearance and heinous crimes have made her an object of morbid public fascination.(8) Let's say you commit the heinous sin of dropping a cigarette end in the street in York.(9) The candidate has to be involved in two separate cases of heinous crimes to attract disqualification.(10) But to plan somebody's murder is a particularly heinous crime and I think few people would do that.(11) What heinous sin had these women committed to be singled out for divine retribution?(12) The pressure on companies to make money for their shareholders has led to some truly heinous acts, in my view.(13) He might end up in prison, but, however long his sentence and however heinous his crime, his citizenship was secure.(14) In this and other cases, it was an absolutist sense of superiority that allowed such heinous acts.(15) This is why the death penalty is usually reserved for only the most heinous criminals.(16) Also the list of heinous offences should be expanded to cover social and economic offences.