Sentence examples for lawful reason from inspiring English sources

And that provision actually gives returning soldiers greater rights than civilian employees, who can be fired for any lawful reason.

However, his wife had her passport confiscated without any lawful reason and has been unable to join him.

A jury at the Old Bailey in central London heard on Wednesday that Long, now retired from the force, had no lawful reason to open fire.

"The AFP had no evidence or lawful reason to detain, much less arrest or charge, any member of the Bali Nine before their departure from Australia," they said.

"As long as an officer has a lawful reason to question someone, and then a suspicion develops [that] they are an undocumented person, then I think our law enforcement folks ought to be able to pursue that," he said.

The prosecution say the six Asians had no lawful reason to be carrying the weapons and that the racist violence by whites was not in the defendants' area of town.

And all this within the recent flood of attention to manipulated pricing with the formation of the Oil and Gas Pricing Fraud Panel under Attorney General -- "there may well be lawful reasons for increases in gas price given supply and demand" -- Eric Holder.

While the N.Y.P.D., of course, should be investigating potential criminal and terrorist activity, it has no legitimate reason to spy on lawful political activity".

Israeli forces, according to the Goldstone report, indiscriminately used heavy artillery and white phosphorous in densely populated areas and deliberately destroyed civilian buildings and infrastructure without a lawful military reason.

These attacks included Israel's indiscriminate use of heavy artillery and white phosphorus in densely populated areas, and its massive and deliberate destruction of civilian buildings and infrastructure without a lawful military reason.

More broadly, you can defend the charge on the grounds that you had "good reason or lawful authority" for having the item with you.