Sentence examples for illicit practices from inspiring English sources

"So it can develop political protection for its illicit practices".

Did you sanction illicit practices while you were editor?

I was becoming versed, instead, in the strange, illicit practices of the hill country.

Finally, Miguel gives Weaver an unpublished pamphlet written by Samuel Lienzo detailing the illicit practices of the company.

"If illicit practices had been going on for 150 years, mouths would have opened much sooner," he said.

These days, a raft of illicit practices, crafted from old excesses, have become a rickety means of sliding by.

Like the K.I.A., some military officers are also involved in smuggling, extracting bribes to allow the illicit practice, activists say.

Brief for Respondents 45; see also ___ P.3d, at ___, 2001 WL 1246676, at *12 (“State Farm’s continuing illicit practice created market disadvantages for other honest insurance companies because these practices increased profits.

Though it is hard to say for certain, and though some children went on to compound their errors in spite of having them pointed out, I estimate this illicit practice improved our Sats results by five, perhaps even 10 percentage points.

And science, they argue, is already so much a part of elite sport, in the form of everything from high-tech swimsuits to Paula Radcliffe's hypobaric bedchamber, that to legitimise its influence in this respect would actually be more sporting than "leaving it all to chance or unequal access to illicit practice".

And some privately argue that the incentives give the Chinese exhibitors an added reason to attribute revenue from Hollywood movies to local films — an illicit practice that is suspected by some to have kept the actual receipts collected by Hollywood studios artificially low.