11.   Mr Harrison said the courts had to make sure the punishment fitted the crime for such serious offences.

12.   Also approved was a bill that would make it a crime for the first time to solicit membership in a criminal street gang.

13.   Also pending in Congress is a bill to make it a federal crime for courier companies like United Parcel Service to deliver alcohol to a minor.

14.   And is it a crime for Valery Kamensky of the New York Rangers to consort with a dubious character named Vyacheslav Sliva?

15.   And it is a crime for an insider to buy if he or she has material nonpublic information.

16.   And it would be a crime for others to offer a president money in exchange for a pardon, whether or not he accepted it.

17.   Another man, Qi Yanchen, of Hebei Province, has been charged with the same crime for posting anti-government messages, according to rights groups.

18.   At the time, his was a shocking crime for such a high-profile member of the jock kingdom.

19.   A separate federal law makes it a crime for felons, fugitives, drug users and some other categories of people to buy guns.

20.   AFL-CIO leaders are also calling for abolishing a federal law that makes it a crime for employers to hire illegal immigrants.