Sentence examples for improperly acquired from inspiring English sources

Peggy R. Mastroianni, the commission's associate legal counsel, said most of the 80 complaints filed since the genetic law took effect five months ago seemed to involve cases in which employers had improperly acquired or disclosed genetic information.

(Agence France-Presse) Scandal Brews in Japan Japan's opposition began political attacks against Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi this week after a news magazine reported that his secretary had improperly acquired stock that later skyrocketed in value.

So when a popular news magazine reported this week that the secretary to the current prime minister, Keizo Obuchi, had improperly acquired stock in a telecommunications company that later skyrocketed in value, the political opposition smelled blood and attacked.

President Vladimir V. Putin's former prime minister, Mikhail M. Kasyanov, left, returned from a vacation in Europe and denounced a criminal investigation into accusations that he improperly acquired a government-owned summer cottage at a steep discount.

Apotex was awarded damages of more than $2.3 million in 1995 after charging that its main competitor, Novopharm, had improperly acquired Apotex's research into a new anti-cholesterol drug.

Christopher Wylie, the former C.A. employee who recently came forward to detail how the company improperly acquired personal data from fifty million Facebook users, has said that the company used that data to create a "psychological warfare mindfuck tool".

A5 Russia Ends Inquiry Into Tycoon Prosecutors in Russia said they had concluded fraud investigation of an imprisoned industrialist, Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, accused of stealing about $1 billion by improperly acquiring former state-owned companies and by evading taxes.

Last March, Mr. Ray investigated how the White House came to improperly acquire hundreds of confidential personnel files kept by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, many of them files of prominent Republicans, and concluded that it had been the result of unwitting mistakes by low-level White House officials.

Cambridge Analytica's access to Facebook user data, which it acquired improperly through a third party quiz app, is at the heart of Facebook's latest scandal — and Facebook's failure to notify the FTC of the data leak could have triggered the commission's recent probe.

Two insiders had said Kyphon, which Medtronic acquired in 2007, improperly persuaded hospitals to keep people overnight for a simple outpatient procedure to repair small fissures of the spine.

In the first action of its kind, the F.T.C. said today that a drug company, the Biovail Corporation, had illegally acquired an exclusive patent license and improperly listed the patent with the F.D.A. for the purpose of stifling generic competition with one of its brand-name drugs.