Sentence examples for nominally illegal from inspiring English sources
Such police behavior is nominally illegal in China but widely tolerated because prosecutions here have long relied more on confessions than on physical evidence.
On the contrary, they reflected the long-held attitudes of Wal-Mart itself, which has been credibly accused of fighting unionization with such nominally illegal tactics as firing union supporters and spying on employees.
And while it's nominally illegal, it's rare that you actually see a publicized crackdown.
Ultimately these solutions will need to be monitored by Chinese authorities — the same authorities under which the previous, nominally illegal excesses of Foxconn's were swept under the rug.
On the ground, however, Roma are subject to widespread discrimination, a nominally illegal situation within an EU member state.
The case was pursued rigorously by activists and state officials in the hope that it would send a strong message to doctors that FGM, which was nominally made illegal in 2008, will no longer be tolerated in Egypt.
Younger's department was also accused of having connived at the illegal diversion of shells nominally headed for Saudi Arabia to forbidden Iran.
In this nominally austere society, alcohol is consumed widely, even though it is illegal for Muslims.
It is a country where Manuel Valls, France's then nominally socialist interior minister, last year calmly suggested that the solution to illegal camps and street crime was to deport all Roma Gypsies because they have no hope of "integrating", adding: "We are not here to welcome these people".
Some nominally legal acts are dangerous for the wrong people (witness Tamir Rice), and some "illegal" acts are open to the right people.
