Sentence examples for case of piracy from inspiring English sources

There was also at least one famous case of piracy in reverse.

It makes the sale instead or, in the case of piracy, it saves money that it would have spent on the authentic product.

It is not often that a case of piracy on the high seas is adjudicated in New York, and the proceedings on Wednesday reflected that.

Captain Phillips wants a complete security drill so everyone knows the procedures in case of piracy.

The hoax was described by a spokesperson for the trade group British Phonographic Industry as "one of the most extraordinary cases of piracy the record industry had ever seen".

None have yet used it for cases of piracy.Shipowners also suggest that the region's governments negotiate the right for navies to chase pirates across national boundaries: the so-called "right of hot pursuit".

At this time the court seems to have had some civil jurisdiction over mercantile and shipping cases, although it originally dealt only with matters of discipline in the English fleet and with cases of piracy and prizes (ships and goods captured at sea).

The 1789 law, which was passed by the first Congress and initially used in cases of piracy and stolen goods, states that federal courts shall have jurisdiction over wrongs "committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States".

Then he investigates the murder of a man who tried to expose a case of drug piracy that could bring down the government.

But this cynical private eye also has a streak of integrity (and a need for cash) that compels him to take up the cause of a client who was murdered when he tried to expose a case of drug piracy so far-reaching it could bring down the government.

A Moscow court gave a five-year sentence on Friday to one of the men charged with hijacking a cargo ship off the coast of Sweden last summer, the court said in a statement, the first verdict in a rare case of European piracy.