lawbreaking

Example Sentences

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To clarify this debate, we must distinguish between speech and lawbreaking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

Allowing the group to stay would reward its lawbreaking.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025

A scathing House Ethics report found “overwhelming evidence” of lawbreaking by Santos, including questionable campaign expenditures on items like Botox.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2023

With all his lawbreaking, that's not how this should be settled in a country that abides by the rule of law.

From Salon • Aug. 22, 2023

Even the most conservative of journals refuse to ask evidence to prove that the dead man was a criminal, and that his life had been given over to lawbreaking.

From Mob Rule in New Orleans Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics by Wells-Barnett, Ida B.