Sentence examples for illicit gathering from inspiring English sources

In every illicit gathering of schoolboys there is one.

By Ogden Nash The New Yorker, June 4, 1960 P. 44 In every illicit gathering of schoolboys there is one View Article By Anthony Lane By Rebecca Mead By John Cassidy By Jia Tolentino.

The suit alleges that "given the close relationships with Murdoch, Brooks and Coulson, it is inconceivable that Murdoch and his fellow Board members would not have been aware of the illicit news gathering practices at the newspapers that Brooks and Coulson ran".

A major British report released Wednesday found extensive failures both in intelligence gathering on illicit weapons and the government's use of that intelligence to justify the Iraq war.

Phone hacking was an illicit method of news-gathering.

The gathering had an illicit, Platform Nine-and-Three-Quarters feel to it, as if we'd all been accidentally locked in to a poetry slam overnight, or had discovered a new, secret realm of lyrical commuters.

One of the challenges stated in Global Strategy is that of gathering and disseminating information about illicit and informally-produced alcohol, especially where there are still "substantial gaps in knowledge" (p. 7) [ 1] and especially in developing countries.

The Senate committee is preparing a critical report spelling out what Mr. Roberts has described as "serious errors" on the part of the C.I.A. in gathering and analyzing prewar intelligence about Iraq's suspected illicit weapons program.

He said there had been "way too many gaps" in American intelligence gathering, including information about Iraq's conventional military power and any illicit weapons programs.

In a shameless subordination of diplomacy to domestic political pandering, John R. Bolton, the under secretary of state for arms control and international security, told the gathering that Washington would not support an agreement to curb the international flow of illicit small arms if it infringed on the right of Americans to bear arms.

Mr. Bush, who warned before the war that Iraq's illicit weapons posed an urgent threat to the United States, now generally describes Iraq as having been a "gathering threat," a phrase he has used at least 11 times since Aug. 12.