perpetration

[pur-puh-tray-shuhn]

noun

1. the act of perpetrating a crime or other offensive act.

Example Sentences

Such abuses had “led to serial perpetration of harassment with insufficient district response, leaving district students vulnerable to the sex discrimination in school,” the office said in a news release.

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Stefanik called Magill's resignation "the bare minimum" of consequences and promised that universities “can anticipate a robust and comprehensive Congressional investigation of all facets of their institutions' negligent perpetration of antisemitism.”

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The two men were charged at a Berlin court with two counts of “joint perpetration of especially serious treason,” prosecutors said.

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"We are deeply concerned about the apparent perpetration in Afghanistan of gender persecution – a systematic and grave human rights violation and a crime against humanity," they said in a joint statement on Friday.

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State Department issued a travel ban against a Syrian security official and his immediate family over his alleged perpetration of the 2013 massacre of at least 41 civilians in the Damascus neighbourhood of Tadamon.

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