Sentence examples for methods were legal from inspiring English sources

Lucent's methods were legal, and most analysts had nothing but praise for the company's earnings gains.

The documents were prepared by the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department and were relied upon by the C.I.A. as assurance that their methods were legal.

She insists, however, that the lawmakers were told only that the C.I.A. believed the methods were legal -- not that they were going to be used.

Ms. Rice insisted that Mr. Ashcroft not just pass along the conclusions of his Office of Legal Counsel, where Mr. Yoo worked, but give his personal assurance that the methods were legal under domestic and international law.

The interrogators' bosses, from top C.I.A. officials to former President George W. Bush, have justified their policies by saying the Justice Department's opinion was that the methods were legal.

Rice, Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales and George Tenet reassured the CIA in spring 2003 that the abusive methods were legal.

Which of these methods are legal, and which are illegal?

"Their methods are legal, but they are neither decent nor ethical," he declared.

Even as the administration has maintained in secret Justice Department legal opinions that its harshest methods are legal, it has quietly but steadily backed away from them in practice.

Randy Cohen, former ethicist of the New York Times Magazine, says that this instinct to hold on to the money you make isn't necessarily moral, even if your methods are legal.

Doctors can determine the age of a person through a simple x-ray of the hand and wrist, in what is known as a "bone age" study.Quick and inexpensive, the method is legal in France but has been widely criticized by migrant advocates and doctors alike, who say the test is intrusive and unreliable.