Sentence examples for illicit advantage from inspiring English sources

Mouratoglou said he understood Williams's distress at a ruling that she was trying to gain an illicit advantage.

Citizenship, which plays a critical role in delineating a group's particular relationship to borders, is thus an important axis through which to analyze how some groups receive illicit advantage and how many social groups and communities are placed outside the scope of legal, and by extension moral, concerns.

"There are particular moments in public affairs," Madison warned, "when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn".

After discussing the Giants faking of injuries on SiriusXM Mad Dog Radio with Evan Cohen and Steve Phillips, former Atlanta Braves pitching coach Leo Mazzone revealed that even former pitching star John Smoltz was not above using pine tar to gain an illicit advantage during his career.

Ireland and the Netherlands are co-operating with the inquiry into illicit tax advantages.

While previous studies have shown only very slight advantages to illicit matings, now "we have a situation where the advantages of this behavior can be huge".

If the rules of sport forbid the use of performance enhancements, then their illicit use confers an advantage to users against other athletes (who either accept the rules of the game or do not have access to the enhancement interventions).

"The status quo administration of federal tax laws creates an economic advantage for illicit marijuana sellers, who are not subject to direct taxation of their sales".

the efforts of a small number of firms (or such groups as the military, ethnic groups and kleptocratic politicians) to shape the rules of the game to their advantage through illicit, nontransparent provision of private gains to public officials.

• To the Editor: When athletes use drugs and other illicit methods to gain an advantage, there are federal investigations.

Through the decades, athletes have tried everything from strychnine to bulls' testicles to veterinary steroids in a desperate, and frequently illicit, effort to gain an advantage.