Sentences with phrase «be an illegal act»

What I want to illustrate here, is that it is an illegal act to just clutch some verses out of the Bible, and come up with wild conclusions.

An overt act is an element of any conspiracy case, and need not be an illegal act, just some conduct that helps advance the goal of the conspiracy.

It was the deleting of possibly work - related emails that was the illegal act that then allowed the FBI to get a warrant.

Last year, they brought people in from all parts of the South - South geopolitical zone especially Delta State, to come and register as voters, which is an illegal act.

Neither are illegal acts by private persons or corporations not directly involved with the government.

Author of the acclaimed picture - book biography Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (2014), Patricia Hruby Powell turns her attention to the true story of Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter with her nonfiction novel in verse Loving vs. Virginia, about a white man and a black woman who fell in love and married in a time when this was an illegal act.

This is considered check floating, which is an illegal act that is punishable by law.

Cramming is the illegal act of placing unauthorized charges on your wireline, wireless, or bundled services telephone bill.

It is against the Canadian Livestock Act to sell a purebred dog without the papers therefore doing so is an illegal act and the persons that do this could be asking for problems if they are caught.

[T] is illegal act of cyber-terrorism against a climate scientist (and I don't think that's too strong a word) is ominous and frightening.

Even though I know of no prosecutions, it is an illegal act here in the states not to correctly respond to FOI requests.

It was an illegal act, that damaged science and the reputation of scientists (see what happened to poor Phil Jones, an honest and good man).

Not exact matches

«But if there was a situation in which employers decided to knowingly continue to hire someone illegally — for example, as an act of civil disobedience — then they could be prosecuted for a felony for harboring illegal workers.»

First on the plate is the DREAM Act, which offered a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who arrived to the U.S. as minors.

There are legal implications as well: Anyone who wants to get involved in this industry has to take on the reputational risk and the legal risk, because even though numerous states have legalized it, cannabis is still a Schedule I, federally illegal drug under the Controlled Substances Act.

If a client seeks their lawyer's advice on a matter that could be illegal or expose them to criminal liability, and the client uses the advice to commit a crime or act of fraud, the attorney could be asked to testify against their client.

Under the Protection of Children Act, it is illegal in the UK to download or distribute images of child exploitation — something the BBC should have been well aware of.

Thiel, who also supports the idea of creating autonomous islands on which people could live and create their own laws, said he is in favor of a bi-partisan bill called the «Intimate Privacy Protection Act,» which would make it illegal to distribute explicit private images without a person's consent, and would involve criminal penalties for those who profit from doing so.

Privacy International says the practice is illegal under the U.K.'s current Data Protection Act, and will be even more so when the act is replaced next month, to be more in line with the EU's incoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPAct, and will be even more so when the act is replaced next month, to be more in line with the EU's incoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPact is replaced next month, to be more in line with the EU's incoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The crux of the act is simply this: illegal wage bias (based on race, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability) occurs «when a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice is adopted, when a person becomes subject to a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, or when a person is affected by application of a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, including each time wages, benefits, or other compensation is paid, resulting in whole or in part from such a decision or other practice.»

«The government's basic rule is to prevent any illegal acts or uncertainties regarding cryptocurrency trade, while eagerly nurturing blockchain technology,» Hong Nam - ki, minister of the office for government policy coordination, said in a statement.

South Korea said on Wednesday it will take firm action against illegal and unfair acts in cryptocurrency trading after a petition with 280,000 signatures was sent to the presidential Blue House.

By considering all ICOs illegal rather than differentiating ones that trade in unregistered securities from ones that act more like tokens to use certain decentralized apps, China is taking a heavy - handed approach.

Notably, Republicans also recommended Congress repeal the Logan Act, which makes it illegal for private citizens to conduct policy negotiations on behalf of the US and which several of Trump's associates, including Flynn, have been accused of violating.

The air attack, denounced by Damascus and its allies as an illegal act of aggression, was unlikely to alter the course of a multi-sided war that has killed at least half a million people.

Rettenmaier is now fighting charges of child porn possession, claiming the FBI conducted an illegal search and that Best Buy (BBY) workers acted as federal agents.

End Illegal Immigration Act Fully - funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2 - year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5 - year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first.

However, Health Canada did not act, or warn the public, because it considers store - front dispensaries to be illegal, though the government does not prevent them from operating.

Therefore, the Special Council was established based on an illegal act?

«We have simply noted in conversation with Mr. de Voogd that without the registration required by the Money Laundering and Terrorism Prevention Act, offering financial service could be grounds for criminal proceedings for illegal economic activity, which is a standard practice for, say, pawnshops.

«We have simply noted in conversation with Mr de Voogd that without the registration required by the Money Laundering and Terrorism Prevention Act, offering financial service could be grounds for criminal proceedings for illegal economic activity.»

A former employee of Shanghai Pudong Development Bank is alleged to have acted as a loan shark and run illegal businesses to the tune of 6.4 billion yuan (HK$ 7.9 billion).

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

It is my experience that rarely do «they» really «know» more than anyone else and if they are acting on information you do not know, it is almost always very short - term in nature (whisper number on earnings) or illegal (merger news) and rarely is it something fundamentally significant in the long - term.

While members are still liable for fraudulent and illegal acts they commit, they're not liable for LLC debts or for decisions made by company representatives.

The Bank Act requires Canadian chartered and Authorized Foreign Banks to inform customers in plain language that coercive tied selling is illegal.

The Bank Act requires banks to inform customers in plain language that coercive tied selling is illegal.

The United States House of Representatives is considering the Intimate Privacy Protection Act, a bipartisan bill that would make it illegal to distribute explicit private images, sometimes called revenge porn, without the consent of the people involved.

Consumers should beware of those that do not follow these laws because they could be acting as a cover for other illegal activity.

A company that even printed out a contract like that would be liable under the Civil Rights Act, because it is illegal to discriminate in employment decisions on the basis of religion.

There are plenty of acts that I consider immoral that are part of Christianity (and every religion), but they're not illegal.

In England and Wales the acts of buying and selling sex are not in themselves illegal but associated activities such as soliciting, kerb crawling and brothel - keeping are outlawed.

Who are we to tell God he can not do the same in our day and time??? The Law now states it is illegal, Edmunds / Tucker act, and as of 1890 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints also does not practice it.

I assert that the Jewish declaration of a State of Israel subsequent to the UNs passing of Resolution 181 was an unauthorized / illegal act of land seizure where Israelis essentially simply decided to take what was not theirs without the owner's consent.

It has indeed caused «severe embarrassment» to the nation, as he laments, for the Senate investigation has laid before the public the elements of a terrible irony: that acts which are illegal and unethical for citizens to engage in at home are condoned, even aggressively pursued, by American law - enforcement officers and secret agents both at home and abroad.

Now there might be another reason such action is against their best interests - it might be an illegal as well as an immoral act, and they might get caught and penalised.

Mohaud was already inclined to carry out the illegal act.

Regardless of one's view on illegal immigration, the RCC should be taxed since they are acting as a political group.

Oil drilling by the New Jersey - based Genie Energy Ltd in the occupied Golan Heights could well result in a lawsuit claiming that Israel is engaged in an illegal act of pillage as defined in the Hague Convention.

The act should be made illegal, as it once was in this country (the USA), and all who CHOOSE to practice it be «Registered S.e.x. Offenders».