Sentence examples for used illegal methods to from inspiring English sources

For decades, Hoover's F.B.I. used illegal methods to gather information on people he regarded as subversives.

In another, he stepped down from the board of Hewlett-Packard in 2006 after he said the company had used illegal methods to obtain his phone records.

The News of the World is seeking to prevent the disclosure of documents that it is claimed show that many of its reporters "endemically" used illegal methods to obtain personal information, a court was told today.

In 2000, ruling in an antitrust lawsuit brought by the US government, Jackson ordered Microsoft to be split in two after ruling that the company had stifled competition and used illegal methods to protect its monopoly in computer operating systems.

His lawyers also claim that the FBI may have used illegal methods to identify and seize the Icelandic server on which the Silk Road was hosted, and from which much of the evidence comes.

The suit, filed in United States District Court in San Jose, Calif., is the latest complaint brought by a competitor in the wake of a legal ruling upheld by a federal appeals court last June that Microsoft was a monopolist that used illegal methods to defend its position.

[The Huffington Post] An Illinois man is sentenced to 10 years in prison for using illegal methods to remove asbestos and then dumping it in more than 100 unlabeled plastic garbage bags in a park, contaminating soil and exposing workers to fibers.

Already two Austrians have confessed to team officials that they "may have used illegal methods".

A16 SPORTSWEDNESDAY D1-8 Questions for Austrian Skiers Austrian ski team officials said two team members, who fled after a weekend police raid of five residences in the Alps where Austrian biathletes and cross-country skiers are staying, said they possibly "used illegal methods" in preparation for their Olympic events.

However, the same kind of justice must be applied to law enforcement agencies when they use illegal methods in their line of work.

A spokeswoman for News International said in an interview that there was in fact just one request by Ms. Brooks from Mr. Whittamore, and that "there was nothing to suggest that any information was retrieved using illegal methods".