Sentence examples for Quite illegally from inspiring English sources

Somehow, at the end of every bruising 14-hour day, after fielding the countless late-night phone calls and grinding through the briefing papers with which he had cycled home ("I was worried I'd be mugged as, quite illegally, I was carrying huge amounts of classified material in my backpack"), Powell found the energy to keep a diary.

He had been excavating here, quite illegally and yet undetected, during the previous five years in search of a fortune that a retired millionaire claims to have buried somewhere in a vast swath of the Rocky Mountains ― somewhere north of Santa Fe, above 5,000 feet elevation in the rest of northern New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming or Montana.

It's hard to imagine what, at this point, needs to be kept secret, other than the ways in which the administration behaved irresponsibly, and quite possibly illegally, in the Masri case.

Re "Smoking Quite Openly, and Illegally, in the Park" (news article, May 25): Before Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's ridiculous outdoor smoking ban, if someone was bothered by a nearby smoker, he would simply move a few feet away and the problem was solved.

Quite a few are here illegally but no one remarks too much on their presence when the issue of illegal immigration pops up.

Talented and smart developers are taking full advantage of all the tools at their disposal to interact with music in the ways that they want to, not just the ways that the traditional music industry wants them to – so quite often that's happening illegally.

Among other things, it would ban employers from running foreigner-only shifts.Nobody knows quite how many people live in Britain illegally.

We have always seen quite a few iPhones going into China (illegally) so we're excited.

Penalties for not complying with the regulations on foreigners buying property in Singapore can be quite severe and harsh and if you illegally buy it you may be subject to heavy fines and caning as caning is imposed on immigration violations.

The numbers are not quite as shocking as the one million fans who illegally downloaded the season premiere of Game of Thrones in April.

The Puritans banned all theatre in 1642, but didn't quite succeed: the place was frequently raided for illegally hosting "drolls," or comic sketches.