Sentence examples for illicit acts from inspiring English sources

People committing illicit acts.

Like many illicit acts in China, they seem to be tolerated if they do not attract too much attention.

So far, it is believed that federal authorities are possibly interested in whether the fees amounted to money laundering or other illicit acts.

He said detectives were told that the illicit acts occurred in June and July of 2001, shortly after the boy graduated from the school.

The Justice Ministry published two statements on its Web site in recent days, saying that the woman had confessed to engaging in illicit acts and was undressed in a car before the rape.

One of my principal concerns, which goes back several years, has been seaports, which have been in recent history used for a variety of illicit acts and are, in my judgment, a very attractive means by which a terrorist could attack the United States with weapons of mass destruction.

In 1974, he told the New York Times that the release of two volumes of his uncollected short stories was "an illicit act.

But the illicit act didn't have a name in English until 1848, when "stowaway," a derivative of "stow away," entered the language.

"I've committed no illicit act, there is no suspicion hanging over me of any misuse of public money," the president said.

After a recent showing of "Budrus" at An Najah University in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, much of the discussion centered on whether nonviolence was an implicit attack on "legitimate armed struggle" and whether joining with Israeli activists was an illicit act of "normalization" — meaning granting recognition of Israel.

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