Sentence examples for illegal authority from inspiring English sources

Security Council Resolution 217, following on 20 November, condemned UDI as an illegitimate "usurpation of power by a racist settler minority", and called on nations neither to recognise what it deemed "this illegal authority" nor to entertain diplomatic or economic relations with it.

One of those who seized the police station said the group had gone to Sloviansk to fight people who represented the illegal authorities of interim President Oleksandr Turchynov, according to a video posted on Youtube.

While most of what they're doing is not illegal, authorities sometimes shut them down because of safety risks.

In another sign of concern, the state news agency cited police officials as saying satellite dishes were illegal, and authorities have begun going from house to house confiscating the dishes.

It's not: mining is illegal, but authorities tend to turn a blind eye.

While all of it is illegal, the authorities do not publish statistics on what brands' products are being counterfeited.

The name may say "high class," but the activities are still illegal, the authorities said on Wednesday.

Personal importation of most foreign pharmaceuticals is technically illegal, though authorities tend not to enforce the law.

Wild camping here is illegal, the authorities preferring to point tourists towards money-making, taxable hotels and campsites.

It is widely acknowledged that in countries where sex work is illegal, police authorities coerce sex workers into providing sex in exchange for freedom.

Since such recreational use is generally illegal, the authorities keep a strict eye on the opium trade, and would no doubt welcome the chance to make that eye even stricter by cutting poppies out of the loop and making diamorphine and its cousins from scratch in facilities they can watch.