NOUN
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(criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act
a long record of crimes
How To Use law-breaking In A Sentence
- Last week, POGO submitted a letter into the hearing record urging Congress to reject draft legislation proposed by Rep. Michael Grimm R-NY that would silence potential whistleblowers, weaken SEC enforcement actions and allow law-breaking companies to evade accountability. Project On Government Oversight: Supreme Court Makes it Harder to Hold Contractors Accountable for Fraud
- So the people around us influence how much law-breaking we can tolerate.
- Each man lacks the stamina to confront the disastrous consequences of unbridled and law-breaking greed.
- What kind of cretinous text-messaging, law-breaking morons are we, anyway? Reader Rants and Raves
- Even ferocious litigation would be inadequate to constrain massive, sustained law-breaking. Boing Boing
- None of what has been said suggests that we should ignore ethical lapses or law-breaking by public figures.
- One such measure is to relieve those criminogenic social conditions of poverty, bad housing, unemployment, lack of social facilities, and so forth which have an established link with law-breaking.
- Driving under the influence of alcohol, which increases the probability of traffic accidents, is a serious law-breaking offense.
- How easily indiscretions, moral weaknesses, and outright law-breaking are condoned/excused for these folks as countless brown-skinned and others get sent to prisons with disproportionate sentencing by race or low income folks pay with years in lucrative prisons? Tea Party Express rallies against 'big government'
- None of what has been said suggests that we should ignore ethical lapses or law-breaking by public figures.