Sentence examples for as lawful from inspiring English sources

"I don't want them knowing where I'm going, even though I'm as innocent as anyone in the city and as lawful as anyone in the city," he said.

Back then, it was wrong, but today, consuming pot is as lawful as gambling at Black Rock casino and drinking Coors Light at a Denver pub.

Title to such vessels and their cargoes does not immediately pass to the captor state but, under international law, must be adjudicated by the captor state's prize court, which may condemn them as lawful prizes.

May those important victories, and not baseless claims that undermine the legitimacy of American democracy, be the guiding lights of a recount process that's as lawful as it is critical to free and fair elections.

AB: It is clear now that the attorney general had concerns that it might be unlawful - are you still convinced in your heart and in your head that it was as lawful as you believed when you signed the directive?

Only individuals entitled to immunity from ordinary criminal law in respect of armed attacks are considered under international law as "lawful combatants" participating in an "international armed conflict", according to the legal papers.

It is anomalous, however, to speak of particular conduct as "lawful" under an inapplicable law.

Many of those techniques match the descriptions of techniques that the Bush administration approved as lawful, despite anti-torture laws.

Now that the E.P.A. has changed the rules, Mr. Segal said, the government "should not pursue new enforcement actions for projects that the law now recognizes as lawful".

But he ruled out prosecuting officials who stayed within a list of techniques, like waterboarding, that Bush-era lawyers had blessed as lawful, despite anti-torture laws, in memos the department later retracted.

Such sales are justified, sometimes, by claiming that the software is only being sold for legitimate law enforcement purposes as "lawful intercept tools".