Sentence examples for encourage illegal acts from inspiring English sources

The Women's Social and Political Union, founded in 1903, was prepared to encourage illegal acts, including bombing and arson, which led to sharp police retaliation, severe sentences, harsh and controversial treatment in prison, and even martyrdom.

Protest groups targeted by undercover police claim the infiltrators would often act as agent provocateurs, encouraging illegal acts among peaceful protesters, and say that some participated in illegal actions themselves.

The Lacey Act amendments were well intended — few people wish to encourage illegal logging overseas — but the act was aimed at bulk freight and industrial inventory, not the practices of luthiers, who hand-select small quantities of wood and season it for decades, often passing it from one generation to the next.

We should see executives like Jack Welch for what they are: often talented but self-interested competitors whose behavior must be regulated, and whose incentives must not be designed to encourage illegal, immoral, or socially destructive acts.

Worse still, they unintentionally encourage illegal migration.

Conflicts can sometimes encourage illegal trade in natural resources.

Activists say the road will encourage illegal settlement and deforestation.

But indigenous communities fear it could encourage illegal settlements.

Does the market for whale meat in Japan encourage illegal whaling and trading of whale products?

Critics question whether the policy will encourage illegal immigrants to flock to the city.

A campaign to encourage illegal immigrants to leave voluntarily has been launched in six London boroughs.