Sentence examples for lawful act from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, this revision of law did not make withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment a lawful act.

Beginning at least in the early 19th century, England defined conspiracy as a combination "either to do an unlawful act or a lawful act by unlawful means".

Firstly the family is struggling to understand how the shooting of an unarmed man can still be deemed a lawful act.

If brought to trial, legal experts say, the case against the network could clarify the distinctions between the lawful act of witnessing a suicide and the illegal act of assisting one.

"If I formed the opinion this person would fit the criteria of being rational, I would leave it to them to decide if they would proceed with this lawful act of ending their life," he said.

She voiced an opinion – she could do little more due to MS – that suicide is a lawful act in the UK, but it's illegal to help a person, too disabled to do it themselves (Letters, 12 July).

To hold the defendants responsible for violating these rules and dictates, and reject any argument that their acts' compliance with German law could make them lawful acts, was not (so the tribunal ruled) to violate the principle of law and justice that no one should be punished except for violation of law.

The trouble with that analysis, Mr. Paust said, is that it gives terrorists the ability to claim that under international law, attacks on military targets like the Pentagon and the destroyer Cole are lawful acts of combat.

"And the acts then authorised are not crimes, they become lawful acts.

Most have simply pointed to the deaths of so-called peace activists, though these deaths appear to be the result of lawful acts of self-defense.

If the Americans illegally bombard the Assad forces and Assad legally invites the Russians in to degrade the rebels what will Nato do?" The prime minister said Britain would never support illegal action, though he said that it could be lawful to act without the authority of the UN.