Sentence examples for was legally wrong from inspiring English sources

President George W. Bush's decision to hold prisoners outside the law and then attempt to try them in rigged military courts was legally wrong, and hugely damaging to American values and this country's global image.

The lawyers will also claim the judge was legally wrong not to allow the jury to consider a charge of manslaughter, and that the judge did not correct alleged factual errors in his summing up to the jury.

"To cut 13,000 off the voters rolls in one stroke ― that's un-American, that's un-democratic and that is wrong ― morally, intellectually and it was legally wrong," he said.

"What they do a) is immoral, and b) is legally wrong".

"There is often a feeling that if something is morally wrong it must be legally wrong and that clever arguments can bring those two things into alignment," Professor Schuck said.

It's a portrait of people who are coming forward in response to some of the policies post 9/11 and saying: you know that these are wrong, they're morally wrong and they're legally wrong, and we're taking a stance.

Clarence House strongly denies any tax avoidance and said that because Charles pays income tax on money received from the duchy, "it would therefore not only be legally wrong to introduce corporation tax, but it would also result in double taxation".

A: How certain are you that what your client is doing is legally wrong?

Still, the estate's lawyer, John Porter, says the IRS is legally wrong and double-counting.

Whether it's legally wrong remains a matter for the judge.

They are morally wrong, they are ethically wrong and they are politically wrong; but the relevant error is that they are legally wrong.