unlawfully

Example Sentences

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Campaigner Sherrie Smith, who founded Gypsy and Travellers Essex, pointed out that people felt they had no choice but to build plots unlawfully and then seek retrospective planning permission later.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

California officials took legal action Monday against State Farm, accusing the insurer of unlawfully delaying, denying and underpaying home-insurance claims from survivors of last year’s Los Angeles wildfires.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

“In so far as representatives and judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

Vasquez is seeking damages “in the form of unpaid wages, meal and rest period premium pay, unreimbursed business expenses, unpaid sick leave, and all other compensation unlawfully withheld.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026

He felt acutely the information imparted to him by President O’Sullivan regarding the wife he now for ever despised, and who unlawfully belonged to Oscar Otwell.

From Irene Iddesleigh by Ros, Amanda McKittrick