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breaking of the law



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Whether the Securities and Exchange Commission will penalize him for his alleged breaking of the law by failing to disclose his first purchases of Twitter stock this year remains up in the air.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 1, 2022

"The breaking of the law ultimately leads to very long-term and permanent damage to this country's reputation."

From Fox News Sep. 14, 2020

If you fail to make the moral distinction, then you are encouraging the breaking of the law.

From The New Yorker Jul. 9, 2019

His promised breaking of the law will probably take the form of publicly entering a "European" area and refusing to leave, thus inviting arrest.

From Time Magazine Archive

He could overlook the breaking of the law because it held no meaning for him, but it was hard to reconcile this flagrant outrage on fairness with what he knew of Pat.

From The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp by Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)




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