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  • Last year it settled charges that it illegally billed excessive fees and violated consumer protection regulations.
  • Oil was being smuggled illegally out of the country. Times, Sunday Times
  • Communications among individuals are often blocked legally by governments and illegally by enterprises to protect competitive advantages.
  • The riders, known as scramblers, are illegally riding their motorbikes, quad bikes and scooters across Crane Park and are tearing up the ground in the process.
  • Locals from Mountmellick are incensed by the amount of household rubbish that is being illegally dumped in areas of the town.
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  • Traffic incidents included 15 motor accidents, 30 cases of traffic obstruction and 16 illegally parked cars.
  • We are not all adults here, clearly you forget about the underage minors that try to obtain alchohol illegally. stupid is .... Booze News « PubliCola
  • Councils will get sweeping powers to impose fines and tow away caravans illegally parked on private land.
  • The mayor of Lithuania's capital, Vilnius, has been filmed using an armoured vehicle to crush a car parked illegally in a cycle lane.
  • The four orang-utans and two gibbons were returned to Indonesia after being illegally poached and smuggled to Japan eight months ago.
  • The number of informal traders who had their goods impounded for trading illegally in undesignated areas stands at 4 669.
  • The state-run news service reports they will stand trial and that their alleged crime is entering North Korea illegally, intending what they call hostile acts. CNN Transcript May 11, 2009
  • He doused with petrol and inflammable glue 12 tonnes of illegally poached elephant tusks, worth almost £2m.
  • Documents leaked to this newspaper purport to reveal that radioactive waste is being illegally dumped on the site.
  • Police are investigating how £20 million was illegally transferred from/out of the Trust's bank account.
  • These charges range from weapons smuggling to illegally wiring large sums of money into the United States.
  • I think we have to differentiate here between those deer that have been legally shot at and those that have been illegally poached and there is a distinct difference.
  • I renew my recommendation of two years ago for the passage of a bill for the refunding to certain German steamship lines of the interest upon tonnage dues illegally exacted. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
  • It illegally sacked its entire waterfront workforce and attempted to replace them with secretly trained strike-breakers.
  • And up next, more than 3 million Mexican nationals live illegally in the United States.
  • The collective claims VicForests is illegally cutting down old trees in the area and threatening the habitat of the endangered Leadbeater's possum, which is one of Victoria's emblems. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
  • Courts can refuse to admit evidence obtained illegally by police.
  • The court heard how he then went on to illegally dock these puppies tails by tying a rag round their tails to stop the blood supply.
  • The government illegally eavesdropped on his telephone conversations.
  • Earlier in the week, the court sentenced 32 people who took part in demonstrations - including at least two members of the Bahrain national handball team - to 15 years in prison for protesting illegally. NYT > Home Page
  • There has been a spate of cases in the U. S. in which people who run file-sharing sites or illegally share content have been ordered to pay fines.
  • I mean -- if we actually enforce the law, especially against employers who are hiring people that are coming here illegally, you begin to attrit. CNN Transcript May 15, 2006
  • Many bureaucrats have not been welcoming, illegally charging for forms that the newcomers have to complete to obtain citizenship.
  • Their jhuggi, just next to the Malibu Towers, is built on a plot of land owned by a Jat -- a member of the predominant, land-owning caste in Haryana, the state of which Gurgaon is a part -- whom they call Pehelvan ( "wrestler") and pay 600 Rupees a month for the right to live there illegally. Parvez Sharma: Delhi's Servant Crisis and the Commonweath Games
  • Rural buyers often purchase from smaller steel mills, some of which operate illegally, says Huang He, an analyst at Mysteel Research Institute in Shanghai.
  • Don't referees constantly do spots where they're distracted by a tag wrestler trying to enter illegally? PWTorch.com
  • The retailers accuse the two credit-card companies of illegally tying their debitcard products to their credit cards.
  • Several police officers were on the scene and a wrecker was called out to remove illegally parked vehicles.
  • ‘They rarely go to licensed premises - they simply disappear and are being stored and sold illegally,’ he said.
  • Prosecutors said the former TV star was part of an "illicit kickback scheme to manipulate the volume and price of microcap stocks and illegally generate stock sales. CHiPs Star Larry Wilcox Charged with Securities Fraud
  • The response to these types of provisions is that immigrants here illegally are staying longer and bringing their families over illegally too, because we have practically eliminated the option of coming back and forth legally. Rep. Luis Gutierrez: Proud to Support the Rule of Law and Immigration, Too
  • Construction waste is dumped illegally because it costs money to dispose of building rubble and obtaining a permit to deposit clay and topsoil on a site is a two-month process.
  • The significant cause of the congestion is vehicles being illegally parked on the double yellow lines and obstructing the narrow roads for other traffic.
  • This is partly due to the different legal status of blacks and immigrant groups; the former as US citizens in the post-bellum era, the latter as legally or illegally residing aliens.
  • We are offering an amnesty to those who are hiding people away illegally. Times, Sunday Times
  • they dumped the waste illegally
  • Anyone convicted of possession, supplying or producing drugs illegally could be imprisoned.
  • 1922 - Popular author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
  • A banned substance which can be used to help lose weight and help breathing, clenbuterol is also known to boost performance by helping to increase muscle-to-fat ratios, which is why it is sometimes illegally used by meat producers. Alberto Contador on doping report: Sad and disappointed, but with my head held high
  • April 30th, 2010 10: 57 am ET the reason Arnie is not for the law is because he came to this country illegally. Schwarzenegger betting on Romney in 2012
  • In December 2000, police traced illegally imported drugs used to manufacture methamphetamine or "tik" to a house in Woodstock, Cape ANC Daily News Briefing
  • With untold billions illegally wagered on sport in the US, one might also think that the puritanical aversion that the nation feels towards the marriage of sport and wagering would dissipate.
  • In the case of Abandonware, if it can be proven that a company knew their products were being illegally distributed but did nothing about it then the copyright over that particular licence can be lost.
  • He also admitted to driving with faulty brakes and steering, and to driving illegally with a provisional licence, which he got following a previous disqualification.
  • It had denied outright that it illegally received any money from business concerns.
  • It is being slaughtered illegally by the thousands for its wool actually, the underfur of the chiru, which is known in the international market as "shahtoosh" or "king of wool. Ying Ying the Chiru (Tibetan Antelope), try not to buy shahtoosh
  • Visitors to the city are respectfully reminded of the council's powers to remove illegally parked vehicles.
  • The motion and a related lawsuit alleged that Globe Communications Corp. published pictures that were obtained illegally.
  • We often hear of private records being dumped illegally or information being stolen.
  • The officer admitted illegally accessing police files to track down the third woman and another woman. The Sun
  • We used to go out and put posters up late at night illegally and put stickers all over town.
  • He did push his ward committeemen to get good vote returns, but I am virtually certain he never even hinted at doing that illegally.
  • This WTO ruling shatters the convenient myth that European governments must illegally subsidise Airbus to counter US government assistance to Boeing, " said Michael Luttig, general counsel at Boeing.
  • That the cabildo, magistracy, and regimiento of Manila be ordered to allot annually the lading of the vessels to the citizens of Manila, for much harm has resulted to the citizens from the governor allotting it -- the lading being made illegally, and the governor having allotted it to many of his servants and relatives to the prejudice of the citizens and those born in this country. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 12 of 55 1601-1604 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
  • Both men were found guilty of illegally entering the country.
  • Roe noted that the agency also has received reports of other exotic animals being found throughout Pennsylvania, such as a binturong found on a Beaver County family's porch in 2002; an African serval, resembling a small cheetah, which had been illegally possessed and escaped from its Pittsburgh owner several times before being confiscated in 2001; and two wallabies that escaped from their owners in Ambler in 2001. Archive 2007-03-01
  • While they did not specify what the charges would be, they have earlier said that these two were being investigated for illegally entering the country and for what they call hostile acts. CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2009
  • Are the brightly-coloured birds you see crammed into cages by street vendors being sold illegally?
  • A few years ago a campaign targeting large agricultural corporations actually caused the major soya producers to declare a moratorium on planting in any land that had been deforested illegally. Global Voices in English » Brazil: Land reform or deforestation boost for the Amazon?
  • The court rules that the squatters were illegally occupying the land.
  • The program had no credentialed counselors, no chemical dependency services, failed to inform clients of their rights, and was found to be illegally handling medications.
  • He had just denied his investigators illegally wiretapped journalists covering the story. The Sun
  • He'll eventually disappear for a few days and at a certain point steal from us, but Chine's from the streets, illegally trades money for profit as a day job, gets locked up in jail twice on shoot days, and stays up most nights chewing miraa if he can get his hands on it. John Hibey: The Sundance Diaries: Method Acting In Somalia
  • I couldn't find a parking meter, so I decided to park illegally and risk a tow-away.
  • These penguins have been caught in smaller, unreported “mystery” spills, or have swum through the oil-contaminated ballast and bilgewater illegally dumped into the ocean by passing ships. The Great Penguin Rescue
  • State and federal investigators believe the substance may have been illegally dumped or leaked into the water.
  • Both books feature fighters blinded in one eye due to gloves having padding illegally removed.
  • A court told a student to pay £400,000 to four record companies for illegally downloading and sharing music online. The Sun
  • However, on December 24 he was formally charged with illegally acquiring and sharing information.
  • Should any illegally dumped waste be traced back to your house, then it will be up to you to prove that you made the right inquiries. Times, Sunday Times
  • Workers for foreign embassies regularly use their immunity from prosecution to park illegally. The Sun
  • That leaves nearly a third of all old tires to be landfilled, stockpiled (due to landfill restrictions or prohibitive disposal costs), or illegally dumped.
  • Arizona, home of a controversial new law that makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally, has become the leakiest portion of the nearly 2,000-mile border. Illegal immigrants gravitate toward Arizona border
  • The report talks about requiring internet service providers to report users who illegally download music files. The Sun
  • Another tour operator faces penalties for wrecking coral when it illegally anchor on a Maui reef.
  • Many bureaucrats have not been welcoming, illegally charging for forms that the newcomers have to complete to obtain citizenship.
  • Councils will get sweeping powers to impose fines on drivers who park illegally.
  • One baboon-like monkey who is seriously endangered but still hunted illegally is the drill.
  • And no one knows how many children in our schools are there illegally for a simple reason.
  • A van driver suspected of illegally carrying waste materials and then dumping the mess could have their truck crushed unless they admit to being the owner.
  • Moreover, like Red 40 and Yellow 5, it is contaminated with illegally high levels of benzidine and 4-aminobiphenyl, known carcinogens. Michael F. Jacobson: Color Me Skeptical: Tartrazine-Free Macaroni and Cheese
  • The cooperative has formed forest protection teams that have helped in the confiscation of illegally cut timber.
  • We were alleged to have brought goods into the country illegally.
  • Takatlyan was charged with illegal weapons possession, bribery, entering the country illegally and using false documents.
  • We are offering an amnesty to those who are hiding people away illegally. Times, Sunday Times
  • The officer admitted illegally accessing police files to track down the third woman and another woman. The Sun
  • Related to spam, but even more malevolent, is phishing -- a deliberate attempt to illegally gain access to personal information. The Internet Battlefield: Working to Support Online Safety
  • South Korean coastguardsmen attempted to seize two boats illegally fishing in the zone.
  • Misuse of a patent occurs when a patent holder uses the patent to achieve something illegally.
  • On whether infringement is the same as theft: "When you illegally download music, it's no different than walking into a music store and shoplifting. Boing Boing: April 8, 2007 - April 14, 2007 Archives
  • Illegally introduced warm-water fishes flourished in the impoundment, presumably replacing the native species.
  • Yet despite this well-known pattern of exploitation, the company announced in January that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had awarded it a 5-year $385 million contract to build immigrant "detention facilities" (prisons) for immigrants arrested on charges of entering the country illegally and to provide construction and logistics support services in the event of an "immigration emergency," a term vague enough to cause activists to suspect the worst -- that they are openly planning to build detention camps for political dissidents. Charlie Cray: Prison Camps: BushCo's Big Growth Industry?
  • The Ukrainian Church has seceded from the Patriarchate of Moscow where it was placed uncanonically and illegally.
  • The landlady found they had been illegally subletting the flat.
  • First he gets kicked out of two different militaries, then he illegally commandeers an army base, and then he loses the capitol of the world.
  • Sticks swinging, they descended on vendors selling illegally in the historic district, witnesses said.
  • Government had stipulated to pay for indemnifying our citizens for property illegally captured in the blockade of Terceira. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
  • He faces up to 10 years in jail for illegally smuggling arms into India.
  • Should any illegally dumped waste be traced back to your house, then it will be up to you to prove that you made the right inquiries. Times, Sunday Times
  • By padlocking the gate, he said, she was illegally blocking him from his land.
  • The trial of a Norwegian teen accused of developing a utility that enables people to illegally copy DVD movies opened in Oslo yesterday.
  • The 34 percent effectiveness cited by Don Sellers is for the type of crash in which airbag effectiveness is greatest, namely center-front impacts by illegally unbelted drivers.
  • The motion and a related lawsuit alleged that Globe Communications Corp. published pictures that were obtained illegally.
  • The motion and a related lawsuit alleged that Globe Communications Corp. published pictures that were obtained illegally.
  • This often leaves those regarded as having acquired wealth illegally in full possession and under no obligation to compensate anyone for previous wrongdoing.
  • The latest sites contain illegally dumped material as diverse as animal waste from slaughter houses, household rubbish and potentially toxic industrial waste.
  • Its Chief Executive illegally sold shares when in possession of privileged information about an impending price crash.
  • Workers illegally fired for union activity have no right to reinstatement.
  • PC Downing believes that these days there is much more of a realisation of the terrible impact of illegally snaring animals, birds and insects - but he still fears that many see it as a little, insignificant issue.
  • Documents leaked to this newspaper purport to reveal that radioactive waste is being illegally dumped on the site.
  • Conservation organisation, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), said that coming from Bukit Barisan Selatan (BBS) National Park in Sumatra, Indonesia, the illegally grown coffee is mixed by local traders with legal coffee beans and exported from Indonesia to food and drink companies such as Kraft Foods and Nestle. Archive 2007-01-01
  • Garvis Youngblood and his wife were convicted by a jury on 122 counts of wire and benefits fraud for illegally claiming $171,082 in compensation from VA and $111,300 in disability payments from the Social Security Heroes or Villains?
  • Changing the legislation to legalise a practice that had been illegally in operation for some time was sensible.
  • Giant pandas are also poached - killed illegally - as their pelt carries a high price in the black market.
  • I've always wondered how many ex-pats from the U.S. are in Mexico illegally. Anti aliens measures...
  • They punished me later by putting me illegally in mental hospital.
  • Aren't almost all handguns used in crimes stolen or smuggled into the country illegally already?
  • The alleged bomber claims to have illegally crossed the Mexican border into the US.
  • Chlordecone was outlawed in the islands in 1993, but it was used illegally - often sprayed by aeroplanes - up to 2002. Times, Sunday Times
  • A jury convicted him in May of illegally possessing the gas, a lock knife and a cosh at the airport.
  • Traffic incidents included 15 motor accidents, 30 cases of traffic obstruction and 16 illegally parked cars.
  • Illegally attempting to "legalize" unduly elected representatives of the corporate special interests, rather than of the American people, as it were. Supreme Court Ruling Once Again Desecrates Founders Constitution
  • Most damningly of all, it is alleged that up to six new councillors are heavily in debt on their council tax and voting illegally in the chamber.
  • Now an employment tribunal has awarded her an undisclosed four-figure compensation payment and ruled that her employers acted illegally in sacking her.
  • WIth the departure of Darth Cheney, America will again uphold the rule of law at home and not the petty rule of an oligarch-tyrant who believed “l’etat c’est moi” was the policy for both 300 million Americans as well as untold countless illegally-detained and - tortured overseas in his gulags. — And the Winner Is … - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
  • In a murky turn that's never fully explained, we learn that Canadian immigration authorities want to nab her, as she's in the country illegally.
  • Motorists could be unwittingly making their car insurance policies invalid and driving illegally because their photocard driving licence has expired. Archive 2008-09-01
  • She is determined to stop loggers from illegally extracting timber from Indian reserves and national parks and to put an end to indiscriminate jungle clearance.
  • While leaving his house he was so miffed by a car that was illegally parked across his driveway that he lashed out and gave it a quick boot.
  • Capitol; a woman who illegally gave an eagle feather to Sen.
  • People found dumping illegally within the city boundary will go to court and will not be given the option of paying an on-the-spot fine.
  • U.S. citizen child (often, many children) invite their parents, siblings or other family members living in Mexico (or the U.S. illegally) to "rejoin" their family, and all of the sudden, every one of them is a U.S. citizen. Digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • The officer hopped out when he spotted an illegally parked car
  • A 1989 census found that 23 percent of the urban population lives in precarious and illegally built shacks in bidonvilles, or in somewhat better but substandard housing built without permit on unserviced land.
  • The lottery programs in the 1980s were dubbed ‘the Irish sweepstakes,’ because the biggest winners were immigrants from the Republic of Ireland living illegally in the US.
  • But police and customs officers later seized cases of lager and wine that had been illegally imported.
  • Now, in a turnabout, the 70-acre property about two miles from the border is being given to two immigrants whom the group caught trying to enter the United States illegally.
  • It's clear that the federal law prohibits anybody from inducing anyone to come into the United States illegally.
  • A final reason was to reinstate an elected government illegally deposed by force.
  • The newspaper had illegally blagged private financial and property details.
  • The comments we got from sixteen year olds who were illegally modding their wetware at the time were priceless.
  • The UK government is attempting to illegally put the frighteners on smokers buying their requisites over the Internet, a dot.com has alleged.
  • The claims for interest upon the amount of tonnage dues illegally exacted from certain German steamship lines were favorably reported in both Houses of Congress at the last session, and I trust will receive final and favorable action at an early day. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
  • At least two people died and eight are still missing after an illegally run ferry capsized and sank on Monday on the Yellow River near Ji'nan.
  • The only other crime group to have survived intact are the bikies, although the bikies these days have legitimised many of their operations and now make as much money from legal means as they do illegally.
  • You get an inkling of what's ahead as you pass shacks illegally linked by improvised wiring to the pylons above. Times, Sunday Times
  • In 1995 a £12m scam was uncovered involving wagonloads of milk powder illegally imported from Austria and the Czech Republic to Spain and fraudulently re-exported to collect subsidies.
  • Arguing that Sunderland Council had illegally taken Thoburn's tools of trade, the pair demanded the return of his scales.
  • Almost universally the preferred option is to drive illegally. Times, Sunday Times
  • The lottery programs in the 1980s were dubbed ‘the Irish sweepstakes,’ because the biggest winners were immigrants from the Republic of Ireland living illegally in the US.
  • His land is also being illegally occupied by encroachers.
  • Other species which were illegally chopped down included acacia, longan, banana and ivy trees, all found in Hong Kong's countryside.
  • The passports were bona fide but illegally obtained via government contacts. The Sun
  • There are many such other cases, including Kitwe, where squatters have occupied land illegally at the former council farm and are resisting moving despite a court ruling that they vacate the land.
  • CORPUS CHRISTI - Two men with Corpus Christi ties were sentenced Wednesday to probation and community service after pleading guilty to illegally shooting migratory birds in Florida. Corpus Christi Caller Times, Caller.com Stories
  • I hated the unjust, oppressive system so, in my twenties, I fled the country illegally to seek truth and freedom in the West.
  • One elderly woman has launched her own campaign for a CCTV camera crackdown on overweight lorries illegally passing through the town centre.
  • It is sometimes said that a permeable southern border poses no security threat to the U.S., since those who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally are merely aspiring busboys, waiters, and gardeners.
  • We are continuing to collect evidence every day against people who are still uploading music illegally, despite all the warnings we have given.
  • The government illegally eavesdropped on his telephone conversations.
  • This raises the suspicion that unused parliamentary air ticket allowance is sold illegally to travel agents, who resell it to customers. Global Voices in English » Brazil: Fly me to the moon with public money
  • I understand that a television programme had set out to expose the ‘black economy’ in selling meat to butchers and restaurants that had been illegally slaughtered.
  • The parking wardens have no problem and are very quick at slapping fines on people who park illegally around Portlaoise.
  • Poachers illegally trade in snakes such as the Indian python, slaughtering the snake for their skin.
  • In related news, the Taiwan High Court yesterday fined a man for illegally hiring a Chinese woman to work in his home.
  • The video had been duplicated illegally.
  • A gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS) analytical method for three anorectics drugs, fenfluramine, diethylpropion and mazindol, illegally adulterated in slimming foods has been developed.
  • Meanwhile, housing demand goes up, housing supply goes unchanged, rents go up and quality goes down - thanks to all the slumlords who are renting illegally because the city won't let them do so legally.
  • The maximum penalty for illegally possessing a gun or ammunition is up to ten years in prison or a fine, or both.
  • Alarms were raised when industrial glue was discharged into the harbour illegally.
  • The increase could also encourage more motorists to drive illegally without cover. Times, Sunday Times
  • All the senior girls in the group were violating dress code with their miniskirts and above-the-midriff tops, and the guys were palming packs of cigarettes, hoping to appear illegally tantalizing.
  • She was parked illegally but only planned to hand over a bouquet of flowers and spend ten minutes inside. Times, Sunday Times
  • The battle goes on between the music industry and those who seek to rob them of their legitimate revenues by illegally and unfairly copying CDs.
  • Pirate Station: Latvia illegally supplied weapons to Somalia? abcs 20/20 program about Somali pirates gets actors playing as pirates in Slow Motion Video WN.com - Articles related to Turkish Cargo Ship Seized by Somali Pirates
  • I couldn't find a parking meter, so I decided to park illegally and risk a tow-away.
  • Since last October, France has set up an Internet piracy police service that scours the Web for people downloading films and music illegally. Fortify Copyrights, Europe Artists Say
  • The MDA charged that VanDenEeden had been illegally practicing dentistry by diagnosing and fitting patients for dentures, which is illegal under Michigan law. Medlogs - Recent stories
  • Documents leaked to this newspaper purport to reveal that radioactive waste is being illegally dumped on the site.
  • As in the earlier study, many of them were underage when they gambled illegally in casinos.
  • Prostitution is criminal, and bad things happen because it's run illegally by dirtbags who are criminals.
  • People illegally gaining entry for fishing and boating is also a problem. Archive 2007-01-01
  • An inferior project such a plantation of non-native trees may block migratory routes of key species and illegally evict local people.
  • So she tried something else: she went to a so-called pumper, a person who illegally injects silicone to modify the body. NYT > Home Page
  • One of the focuses of the campaign has been tippers and the Council has warned that anyone caught dumping waste illegally is liable for a fine and a court appearance.
  • The Justice Department has charged the five with operating illegally as Venezuelan government agents.
  • And they're pushing for greater leeway in launching cyberattacks against computers illegally transmitting copyrighted files.
  • The college has repeatedly acted illegally toward a third of its former faculty members.
  • By this term the Greeks did not mean one who rules harshly, but simply one who holds the supreme authority in the state illegally. General History for Colleges and High Schools
  • They were due to appear in court on charges of being illegally sold by the roadside. Times, Sunday Times
  • The increase could also encourage more motorists to drive illegally without cover. Times, Sunday Times
  • They were due to appear in court on charges of being illegally sold by the roadside. Times, Sunday Times
  • So do the records show that account holders were acting illegally? Times, Sunday Times
  • At the same time, he said his administration would not turn a blind eye to those whod entered this country illegally. Under Obama, More Illegal Immigrants Sent Home
  • The blocked measures would have allowed police to demand proof of legal residence from those stopped or arrested, when there was reasonable suspicion that they are in the country illegally.

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