Sentence examples for previously illegal from inspiring English sources

Previously, illegal crossers who agreed to leave the country voluntarily were not prosecuted.

The state would access new economic resources - through the production and selling of previously illegal drugs - which are today the turf of large criminal networks.

Previously, illegal immigrants who reached the Australian mainland were immediately sent to detention centers while the government sifted through their claims for asylum, a process that could take years.

Apart from its value to patients, medical marijuana plays an increasingly important role in local economies, transforming previously illegal jobs into legal ones and creating many new jobs as well, contributing to local tax bases and stimulating new economic activity.

The Security Council resolution would not retroactively legalize a previously illegal military strike.

Who could ask for more?" But estimating revenue for a new market – particularly for something that was previously illegal – is a tricky enterprise.

The first black president surely doesn't want to be seen as opening the floodgates for previously-illegal narcotics.

It was clear that in the process of bringing the plant under control some people would receive doses previously considered illegal.

Another reform I'm proposing is the passage of legislation named for Detective Michael Davis and Deputy Sheriff Danny Oliver, two law enforcement officers recently killed by a previously deported illegal immigrant.

Among those parents who do not currently know or suspect that their children have previously taken illegal drugs, only 4% believe their children would be likely to take drugs in future.

Last week, for example, he joined the panel that ruled that the terrorist suspects held at Guantánamo Bay should not enjoy the rights granted by the Geneva Convention to uniformed prisoners-of-war, and that military commissions, previously ruled illegal, could try them.