The phrase "an illegality" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an act or situation that is against the law or not permitted by legal standards.
Example: "The company faced serious consequences for engaging in an illegality that violated federal regulations."
Alternatives: "an unlawful act" or "a legal violation".
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.
Asked why the association had not uncovered such an illegality, Mr. Perez-Lopez said that the group did not inspect every factory, and that Nike had systems in place to identify and correct issues throughout its supply chain.
Additionally, Tolentino claims that, since the DMV records at issue were obtained directly as a result of an illegality, not by some other distinguishable means, the records are tainted and are directly related to a violation of his Fourth Amendment rights.
The government can always come up with a motive so as to deny that a failure to pay was the "sole motive," he said, whether the motive could be described as "assuring the financial solvency" of the licensed company or punishing an illegality.
"I was denouncing an illegality, this is absurd -- this is a state of exception", shouted one of them.
"You take your law school at Princeton, you develop an illegality and I will put it on the air," O'Reilly said.
But even had Craig Livingstone, Hillary Clinton and William Cohen handed Ms. Mayer a confidential employee dossier on a platter, they would be the ones liable for any illegality -- not a journalist benefiting from the leak.
Yitzhak Bronstein Gush Etzion, West Bank, July 1, 2010 To the Editor: Nicholas D. Kristof acknowledges what has been obvious for decades: that the occupation of the Palestinian territories is an immoral degradation of the Palestinian people, not to mention an international illegality.
Great cities flourish when they permit an accomodative illegality.
The rule, which had been implemented in the first place to discourage a different illegality — bat corking — was rewritten to say that a bat with too much pine tar would result not in an out but in the bat's being removed from play.
Let me tell you about a far bigger heist, where there was, nonetheless, never an accusation of illegality.
