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unlawfulness
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The state of being unlawful.
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The use of the animals in medicine, their lawfulness or unlawfulness as food, and their position in folklore are the main subjects treated.
The privateers themselves, according to a 1724 account, tended to "make very little Distinction betwixt the Lawfulness of one, and the Unlawfulness of the other," especially when peace intermittently threatened to deprive them of an income.
"For such a low level of unlawfulness, I don't think any government negotiations with the United States for compensation are necessary".
We should not go down the road of unlawfulness.
"The sheer number of institutions and individuals involved in these cases reflects a truly shocking and brazen degree of unlawfulness, warranting the historic enforcement response we bring forth today and in our prior cases," said David Meister, director of enforcement for the C.F.T.C.
I also use "unauthorized," which is unfamiliar and a little clunky, but has a distinct advantage: while it acknowledges the unlawfulness of someone's immigration status, it also recognizes that this status can be fixed.
And on "blagging" private information, Leveson says: Overall, and in a similar manner to phone hacking, the Inquiry will need to consider whether there was a culture of indifference within the press as to the lawfulness of blagging (or a lack of understanding as to its unlawfulness), and to its unethical nature.
He discussed the great lovers of mediaeval Romance - Lancelot and Guinevere, Tristan and Iseult - and pointed out that the difficulty and unlawfulness of their love is part of the essence of their passion.
Leveson adds: Put at its very lowest, the Inquiry will need to consider whether, at least until 2006, there existed a culture within the press of indifference to the unlawfulness of the practice of phone hacking (or a lack of understanding of its unlawfulness, which itself is difficult to justify) and to its unethical nature.
Amnesty International called for the focus to switch from Snowden's asylum plight to the "sweeping nature and unlawfulness" of the US government's surveillance programmes.
Abetz said no objective observer could deny there was "an endemic problem of industrial unlawfulness in this industry given the litany of court judgments and fines against the CFMEU for repeated and unrepentant breaches of the law".
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