Sentence examples for find illicit from inspiring English sources

The Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, was vanquished, but the failure to find illicit weapons undermined the original rationale, leaving a bitter taste as casualties mounted.

American officials said there were no markings on the shell to indicate that it was anything other than an ordinary round, pointing up the difficulty American inspectors have had in trying to find illicit weapons.

The Senate Intelligence Committee's review is the most extensive effort by Congress now underway to reconcile the failure to find illicit weapons in Iraq with unambiguous claims by the administration and intelligence agencies that Iraq had at least chemical and biological weapons in its arsenal before the American invasion in March.

In an interim report in October, Dr. Kay acknowledged that his team had failed to find illicit weapons or active weapons programs in Iraq, but said they had discovered evidence that Mr. Hussein intended to develop such weapons and might have retained the capacity to do so.

The failure of American inspectors to find illicit weapons in Iraq has prompted Democrats, including Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, the party's presumptive presidential candidate, to press the Bush administration to acknowledge having been wrong in the prewar assessments in which senior officials described Iraq's weapons program as a principal reason for going to war.

David Kay, the government's chief weapons inspector, who was chosen and supervised by Mr. Tenet, told Congress on Thursday that his team had failed to find illicit weapons after a three-month search in Iraq, a major setback for the White House.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Mr. Kay and his team had not found illicit weapons.

By then, Boogaard had found illicit sources for pain pills from street dealers, according to his family and friends.

As the drug market in the U.S. grew, many displaced workers became dope farmers or smugglers, and the idled produce trucks found illicit new cargo.

A government panel in 2009 found illicit Indian funds ranged from $500 billion to $1.4 trillion, which is now nearly the size of the Indian economy.

But Boogaard, as he had in Minnesota, found illicit dealers, his family and friends said, especially after his season ended Dec. 9.