Sentence examples for illegal used from inspiring English sources

Instead, the tycoons boasted of their grand plans for expansion.Fat-cats from the Chinese mainland, where gambling remains illegal, used to be Macau's mainstay.

Five of these, including three parks, are now being commercially logged.In this section Current concerns Quantum dreams Orang-utans on the brink ReprintsLogging, both legal and illegal, used to be centrally controlled under the corrupt and nepotistic Suharto regime but is now in the hands of powerful regional timber barons who encourage local lawlessness.

The usual answers are "worth trillions, taking over the world's entire financial system"; "a disused, half-forgotten, especially wasteful fad, the Pet Rock meets Ponzi scheme of the twenty-teens"; "banned, illegal, used only by criminals and in rogue nations, hence mostly worthless"; and "basically entirely replaced by some better, more efficient, 2.0 cryptocurrency".

The French government later clamped down on the "illegal" use of the public space for prayers.

Illegal uses MDMA became known as the 'yuppie psychedelic' and was banned in 1977.

Mr. Tanen was told to stop his "illegal" use or face padlocking.

Sometimes people would call my father an "illegal", using it as a slur towards him.

Even E-Verify isn't designed to flag an illegal using a stolen identity.

Arguably, backpage.com is a "dual-use" product: one with beneficial (or not illegal) uses like the facilitation of sex between consenting adults and one with illegal uses like the commercial sexual exploitation of children.

Illegals used to refer to people who were "in a country without official authorization".

There are laws protecting us against the illegal use of handguns.