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How To Use Illegality In A Sentence

  • I were marched off by the official, his lordship loudly demanding sight of a warrant, and protesting against the illegality of his arrest, varied at moments by threats to appeal to the British consul, minister plenipo., The Great K. & A. Robbery
  • LONDON - As a government-commissioned inquiry into Britain's journalistic practices opened Monday, its chief lawyer delivered a series of bombshell revelations about what he called a "thriving cottage industry" of illegality at the defunct News of the World tabloid. The Seattle Times
  • It is not suggested that the arrangements involved any actual or potential illegality or were intended to deprive anyone of their existing rights.
  • The fact is that all matters relevant to illegality were known or ascertainable at the time of the decision.
  • They sought to contest the illegality of their situation by means of this citizen participation.
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  • We can have some Muslims who unjustly or ignorantly deny the illegality of drinking alcohol, eating pork or even committing major sins like stealing, fornicating... etc.
  • A major focus of the investigation is the illegality of the war. Think Progress » DOJ official reportedly clears torture architects John Yoo and Jay Bybee.
  • So, many who are on the (more or less) Republican side of the debate in favor of harsh laws and “get-tough” policies and are motivated by a desire for rules being enforced, are actually being led by advocacy groups and elected officials who are much more interested in reducing the numbers (and therefore, illegal immigration makes for a convenient target of opportunity, but the illegality is helpful to their side and therefore they fight against eliminating the illegality). Matthew Yglesias » Immigration and Low-Wage Workers
  • So there is no dual illegality, which is the second thing that it must be for there to be an extradition. CNN Transcript Apr 12, 2007
  • Error of law has a wider scope and broader extension than error of illegality.
  • These "settlements" are illegal, hence another irony, that their illegality is prosecuted, while illegal West Bank settlements at the core of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute are permitted by the government, or ignored as the disputes between Jewish settlers and their government await a "political solution. GreenCine Daily: Tribeca Dispatch. 1.
  • Are we supposed to be more generously disposed to her than, say, to Kyle Sampson, her partner in presumptive illegality (whether or not, technically, "criminal misconduct"), because she's just a "girl," whereas he's a "man"? Balkinization
  • Democrats on the panel said seven separate investigations into the travel office affair have produced no evidence of illegality or impropriety.
  • Because conservatives say that the illegality is the problem. Matthew Yglesias » Immigration and Low-Wage Workers
  • It appears that the illegality of such use was by no means clear.
  • Despite their illegality, small gambling houses and large casinos continued to flourish.
  • The determination of the legality or illegality of an act requires the jurisconsult to search for proofs in the valid sources of Islamic jurisprudence.
  • Do some investigators stray over the line into illegality? Times, Sunday Times
  • On blackmail: the illegality is not in the threat, but in the promise not to carry out the threat if money is paid. The Volokh Conspiracy » Kansas Now Allows Threat of Deadly Force in Self-Defense, and Not Just Use of Such Force
  • I certainly do not condone illegality, but I strongly reject the idea of Mr Citizen becoming a dobber!
  • The essence of this principle seems to be that citizens who know that their conduct is on the borderline of illegality take the risk that their behaviour will be held to contravene the law.
  • There's this lo-fi attractiveness to the cassette: it's homemade, it's domestic, there's an illegality to it, a sort of shadiness.
  • Is the contract unenforceable on grounds of illegality?
  • Whether the criminal intention includes the understanding of illegality is still a controversy.
  • First, the supervision system should be designed to detect illegality and unsound practices and to provide early warning of potential failure.
  • The judicial review procedure in the High Court is based on three tests: illegality; irrationality; and/or procedural impropriety.
  • Paul pleaded his privilege as a Roman citizen, by which he was exempted from all trials and punishments of this nature (v. 25): As they bound him with thongs, or leathern bands, to the whipping post, as they used to bind the vilest of malefactors in bridewell from whom they would extort a confession, he made no outcry against the injustice of their proceedings against an innocent man, but very mildly let them understand the illegality of their proceedings against him as a citizen of Rome, which he had done once before at Philippi after he had been scourged (ch.xvi. 37), but here he makes use of it for prevention. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • The resulting illegality appears to me to be of an arbitrary and technical nature, not involving anything which is inherently wrong.
  • Gray, The legality or illegality is grey at this point. Un transit « BuzzMachine
  • But when it comes to alcohol, the modus operandi is to warn of its dangers, preach of the virtues of abstention, ostracise those deemed "problem drinkers" – but never go the whole hog and relegate it to its proper place of illegality like the rest of its peers. Don't blame binge drinking on cheap booze
  • Contrary to popularly held beliefs, abortion is not historically steeped in illegality. Think Progress » Alito’s Mom:
  • Thus in Britain the grounds for review are summarized as illegality, irrationality or procedural impropriety by the public agency being challenged.
  • The stigma arising from their illegality and the fear of persecution prevented (and still prevents) the collectors from publishing their "ill-gotten" information.
  • It is the court's function to control illegality and to make sure that a body does not act outside its powers.
  • Is the contract unenforceable on grounds of illegality?
  • His compilation is the first to cite a comprehensive list of specific war crimes in four categories — illegality of the decision to go to war, misconduct during war, mistreatment of prisoners of war, and misgovernment in the American occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. Matthew Yglesias » The Embrace
  • There would only be an illegality if the parties had bound themselves to achieving this by an illegal dividend.
  • All governments and their departments have committed an illegality which carries penalty.
  • Yet who could tell how much misery any shadows of illegality might cast into the future? Wives and Daughters
  • Criminal illegality is no doubt the keyword of criminal law in a country ruled by law.
  • Whether the criminal intention includes the understanding of illegality is still a controversy.
  • He's in full-nut mode in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution this week where he grumps about the decision from federal Judge Paul Magnuson that quite accurately pointed out the illegality of metro Atlanta withdrawing water all these years from Lake Lanier. Lowering the Barr - poli
  • Do some investigators stray over the line into illegality? Times, Sunday Times
  • But behind the on-air enthusiasm and frisson of illegality, the station's founders were hard-headed realists driven by a clear-sighted aims.
  • You continued to work for the party and were involved in writing political slogans on walls, although you were aware of the illegality of this activity.
  • (Potere Operaio, No. 61, July 16, 1973) Even as late as November 1978, after the kidnapping and killing of Aldo Moro, Negri's own magazine, Rosso (Red), far from condemning the escalating violence of the Red Brigades, wrote: "In claiming as its own all militant actions on the proletarian side, the movement must relaunch the initiative on the terrain of organized counterpower and mass illegality. 'Apocalypse Soon': An Exchange
  • Therefore, it all dates back to the illegality of the magistrates.
  • I have read most of his books, and I think that he brilliantly attacked the illegality of the income tax.
  • But this short and easy method with those who take their stand on coercion and illegality was scouted by the Radical M.P. He pointed out with the same lucidity and precision with which he would have stated a case to a leading counsel, the facts (first) that the right-of-way was not only claimed, but existed; (second) that the threatening notice was inoperative; (third) that an action lay against any person who attempted to deforce the passage of any individual; (fourth) that the road in question was the only way to kirk and market for a very considerable part of the strath, that therefore the right-of-way was inalienable; and Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
  • One cannot dispute the illegality of last Monday's protests.
  • It seems to me that there must be cases when illegality can affect a letter of credit.
  • It is deeply regrettable that both before and since those two spills occurred, much more oil has been spilt due to illegality. Times, Sunday Times
  • However, to the many more with no such hope, the only alternatives are to migrate or to embrace the illegality of the informal economy.
  • The criminal big-shot, viewed in the distorting mirror of the satirist, is a parody of the American dream of success, ironizing the business ethic by the illegality of his methods as well as by his ultimate defeat; the inevitable fall of the big-time gangster creates a sense of entrapment in an economically determined reality. Singing Soprano, While Dissin' the Bass: America's White Thug Love & Ethnically Acceptable Violence
  • Thus in Britain the grounds for review are summarized as illegality, irrationality or procedural impropriety by the public agency being challenged.
  • His Lordship articulated three grounds for judicial review: illegality, irrationality and procedural impropriety.
  • As an advocate for those held without charge or trial by an occupation rooted in illegality, and under the increasing scrutiny of a world skeptical of U.S. intentions in Iraq, Amal Swadi is a person of interest indeed. Think Progress » More trouble for Halliburton.
  • So her campaign has been trying what it calls a proactive effort to fix problems with committee reports it filed with the State Board of Elections, performing a yearlong voluntary audit of her campaign finances and forfeiting donations that had a whiff of potential illegality. WRAL.com Top Stories
  • What makes Warman's thesis unsettling is its similarity to those of American right-wing tax protesters who have theorized the illegality of income tax since the 1950s.
  • Politicians generally don't understand the immorality and illegality of their acts, till they are booted out of power.
  • The rumours have also caused media headlines and accusations of malpractice and illegality aimed at the farming community.
  • But golf officials suspected that some club faces had been resharpened and were often verging on illegality.
  • The High Court found no impropriety or illegality in her dismissal.
  • So her campaign has been trying what it calls a proactive effort to fix problems with committee reports it filed with the State Board of Elections, performing a voluntary audit of her campaign finances and forfeiting donations that had a whiff of potential illegality. TheSunNews.com: Local
  • The thing I find depressing is how the current system rewards illegality. Thoughts on Immigration, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • This experiment is a very calm look at the question of legality and illegality of drugs. The Sun
  • A "breach" of contract, "possible misappropriation," or "misdeed" - would be necessary to begin legal proceedings, but there "was not any sense of illegality at that point," he said. 06/05/2005
  • Does his claim fail because it relies on illegality?
  • These secret agents occupy a twilight zone between legality and illegality.

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