Sentence examples for doubtful legality from inspiring English sources
Clodius then carried through a second law, of doubtful legality, declaring Cicero an exile.
Pre-emptive action by the police is a growing trend and of doubtful legality," said Schwarz.
Cicero, as consul, defeated these efforts and, relying on the doubtful legality of a Senate vote in support, had Catiline's eminent Roman associates executed.
Haig helped select the candidates and, apparently aware of the doubtful legality of the operation, ordered that there should be no written record.
One possibility (of doubtful legality under the Maastricht treaty) was for the EFSF to borrow from the ECB, but opposition from the central bank seems to have killed it off.
Yet last week ministers made what may (or may not) be a significant concession in response to near-universal condemnation of its right-to-buy plans for housing associations (a policy of doubtful legality).
I wonder why the UN security council has not yet censured the US not only for extending the war on terror illegally to other countries but also for using a new, remotely controlled weapon of war of doubtful international legality – the drone.
Thus it is doubtful that the legality of this provision could be contested, even assuming that the issue was properly raised, which respondent disputes.
As for last year's proposal to bomb Syria, it was a one-off punishment reprisal of questionable legality and doubtful purpose and it was sensibly rejected by Parliament (and people).
In a case in Dallas, a federal district judge said in a ruling in April that he was doubtful about the program's legality, suggesting that the president had overstepped his authority and that only Congress could approve such a temporary reprieve from deportation.
