Sentence examples for illegal taking from inspiring English sources

Outside Chris Restaurant, some people who said that they had spent their money inside said they never noticed anything that seemed illegal taking place.

I am aghast: The Ethicist writes that an action that is "unwise, unsafe and illegal" — taking unprescribed drugs to try to improve an LSAT score — "does not offend ethics".

General Motors said today that two strikes in Michigan that have crippled its car and truck production were illegal, taking an unusually hard stance against its national union over local walkouts.

But the group planning the federal court action, the New York Coastal Partnership, which currently has only a handful of members, said the Army Corps and the state were under a legal obligation to proceed with the interim project and would be guilty of illegal taking private property from Fire Island landowners if they did not.

Attorneys for the biotech companies said during the hearings that aspects of the bill are "vague and ambiguous" or amount to an "illegal taking" of property.

The effort failed once the Congressional Research Service reported that there was "a high likelihood" that such a mechanism would be deemed an illegal "taking of private property" and require the government to pay over a $1 billion in compensation.

This was a perfectly proper, legal transaction in which nothing extraordinary or illegal took place," the spokesman said.

Mr. Londoño has said that all the loans have been repaid and that nothing illegal took place.

"If I do something illegal, take me to court and give me the right to a defense," he said.

The report explores what Oscar Goodman doesn't appear to understand: the horrendous toll that prostitution, legal or illegal, takes on the women and girls involved.

However, there are many concrete actions and activities (that are not necessarily illegal) taken by an individual that can be treated as weak signals and that combined may indicate an interest in terrorism acts.