Sentence examples for illegal opening from inspiring English sources

The illegal opening of fire hydrants has shown a decline this summer.

The county sheriff, Tim Evinger, who watched the latest illegal opening of the waterway from his patrol car, but declined to intervene, said this particular brand of lawbreaking was none of his business.

The Watergate investigations later revealed that in 1970, a young White House aide, Tom Charles Huston, had come up with a plan to authorise the CIA, the FBI and military intelligence units to intensify electronic surveillance of "domestic security threats", authorise illegal opening of mail and lift the restrictions on surreptitious entries or break-ins to gather intelligence.

Last week, the World Trade Organization, the international arbiter of trade laws, ruled that these tariffs were illegal, opening the way to retaliatory sanctions by European countries against American goods unless Mr. Bush relents.

Tampering with a hydrant, even those like the one on Thayer Street that have city-sanctioned spray caps to reduce the flow, is illegal; opening one without a cap can lead to fines of up to $1,000 and imprisonment of up to 30 days.

Anti-war activists, including prominent politicians, have said the report into the 2003 invasion and its aftermath will be a whitewash if it fails to declare Blair's involvement illegal, opening the way for the case to go to the ICC in the Hague.

In the mid-1970s, withethe revelation of ugly secrets about death plots, illegal openings of domestic mail and use of drugs for mind control came a rash of volumes decrying the notion that Americans could ever have countenanced "so immoral" an agency.

As for those who did take the fall for the illegal account openings, Representative Brad Sherman, a Democrat of California, was particularly acerbic.

The 400‐page report, a copy of which has been obtained by The New York Times, was prepared in August 1976 after the Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation into charges that bureau agents had committed burglaries and carried out illegal mail openings and wiretaps in their attempts to apprehend Weathermen fugitives.

Of course, the recent scandals over illegal account openings has made a major dent in Wells Fargo's customer treatment score.

The latter is the part of the F.B.I. that from World War I on investigated all manner of political radicals and Communists, compiled lists of Americans to be detained in the event of national emergency and engaged in at least half a century of illegal wiretapping, mail opening and burglaries.