Sentence examples for outlaw behavior from inspiring English sources

Mr. Boden has consistently found himself locking horns with the mayor and other politicians over their push to outlaw behavior associated with homeless people.

So too would empowering the agency to collect unpaid taxes from those whose outlaw behavior—however lawyered up or genteel is most costly to the nation's finances.

It was in the name of patriotism, after all, that the United States, since 9/11, has often embarrassed itself with its government sanctioned excesses of torture, domestic spying, unnecessary secrecy, and other outlaw behavior.

Most of his protagonists were outlaws, and his films often showed criminal behavior as a product of society or as a reaction against it.

But there is also "outlaw" in the Willie Nelson/Waylon Jennings sense: people who appropriate the image without, necessarily, the criminal behavior.

Now, new legislation proposed in her country's largest city would outlaw such behavior, making acts like whistling, kisses, and "lascivious looks" punishable by up to five days in jail and a 1,000 peso (about $110) fine, and national lawmakers are mulling a law of their own.

In "In Praise of Sin Taxes" (Side Lines, May 10, p.22) Editor William Baldwin opines, "Instead of outlawing bad behavior or punishing it with criminal sanctions, why not legalize it but charge a fee?" As an example he cites the right of power companies to spew mercury and other pollutants in exchange for a fee.

Like many other countries in Africa, which are intensely — and officially — homophobic, Kenya outlaws homosexual behavior.

The honor code at Brigham Young University outlaws homosexual behavior — does this mean having a homosexual relationship at B.Y.U. is unethical, simply because a rule exists?

Both groups have come to America in search of 'freedom.' The Merry Mounters interpret 'freedom' as sexual and individual freedom, the Puritans as freedom to practice their own religion while outlawing the behavior of others.

While most federal employers already have rules outlawing such behavior, it appears some employees have still managed to get their fix while on the clock.