Sentence examples for it remained illegal from inspiring English sources

Nor did repeal make all states go "wet": it remained illegal to buy or sell alcohol in some states for years — Mississippi did not legalize it until 1966.

If Colombia legalised the production of cocaine, but it remained illegal in Europe, how and from where would illicit cocaine be imported?

Difficult to remember in an era of marriage equality and widespread social acceptance of gay people, Mr. Bianchi added, is the social and political tenor of those decades when in many places it remained illegal for two men to dance together in public, when stereotypes of gay men as "sick deviants, weak and ineffectual and involved in sterile, unimportant relationships" still held sway.

For years, since the first medical marijuana laws were passed in the mid-1990s, many local and state governments could be confident, if not complacent, knowing that marijuana would be kept in check because it remained illegal under federal law, and that hard-nosed federal prosecutors were not about to forget it.

In 2005 it was argued that mitochondrial diseases were 'serious' and the HFEA granted a research licence to clinician-scientists at Newcastle University4 to permit them to conduct research on PNT/MST, though at that point it remained illegal to use an embryo created by the techniques for clinical applications.

He's not pushing to completely legalize weed, per se in states where it remained illegal, federal authorities could still arrest and prosecute dealers but those who smoked pot would no longer be subject to federal prosecution for possession.

Even though many activities associated with it remain illegal, having sex for money in this country is a job.

A substantial minority remained Roman Catholic in England, and in an effort to disestablish it from British systems, their church organisation remained illegal until the 19th century.

Although suicide remained illegal during this period, it increasingly became the target of satirical comment, such as the Gilbert and Sullivan musical The Mikado that satirised the idea of executing someone who had already killed himself.

And even then, one could not conduct it completely scientifically without a separate control-group society in which insider trading remained illegal for comparison.

Baird stressed that the drug remained illegal.