unlawfully

Example Sentences

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Without freeing his own five slaves, Benjamin Franklin endorsed their views and joined Benezet’s Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, America’s first abolition society, and eventually served as its president.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

"Unlawfully acquired shares shouldn't be allowed to vote," Wald told the judge in a crowded Santa Ana courtroom.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2014

Unlawfully obtaining other people’s information for personal gain is a serious offence which can have potentially devastating effects.

From Forbes • Dec. 13, 2012

"Unlawfully intercepting phone calls is a massive invasion of privacy," Kelly said.

From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2011

Red and watchful, still and bare, With a thousand spears in air, Stands the beech that you would bind Unlawfully to human mind.

From Georgian Poetry 1911-12 by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir