Sentences with phrase «doing was against the law»

He admitted to knowing what he was doing was against the law.

What Pussy Riot did was against the law.

VERA DRAKE (2004): The incomparable Mike Leigh directs Imelda Staunton in her brilliant performance as a pure - of - heart who clandestinely and somewhat naively terminates unwanted pregnancies, never quite acknowledging to herself that what she?s doing is against the law.

But by choosing the criminal path they can move from low level «pranking» to higher level cyber crime quite quickly, sometimes without even considering that what they're doing is against the law.

Not exact matches

Similarly, personal beliefs are the subject of numerous nascent state laws that would allow business owners to discriminate against customers or employees they don't approve of.

A vote on the measure was delayed for hours after Democrats revolted against provisions to roll back part of the Dodd - Frank financial reform law and allow more big money political donations, while conservative Republicans objected because the measure did not block funds for Obama's immigration order.

Multiple news outlets have reported that Trump is trying to figure out what he could do to Amazon, such as changing its tax status or using antitrust laws against the company.

Here are the states where you can still be fired for being gay because they don't have explicit laws that prevent discrimination against LGBT people in the workplace.

On Monday and Tuesday of this week, Attorney General Sessions said that marijuana sale and use is still against federal law and said he does not think that cannabis is something that should be legalized, despite the fact that more than half of all states have some form of a regulated market already in place and the majority of Americans agree that marijuana prohibition should end.

«Though the vast majority of Americans think it is wrong and should be against the law, [most state] laws do not protect the LGBT workforce from this kind of discrimination,» Peter Romer - Friedman, an attorney with Cohen Milstein, a law - firm in Washington, D.C., says.

These do not appear to be fake accounts, and since they don't seem to have violated any laws or Facebook policies, the company does not appear to be taking any action against them.

While business groups in Indiana, such as the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, have come out decisively against the law, Indianapolis, the center of business conference activity in the state, is now fighting to make sure that businesses don't abandon the city's vital convention industry.

Did White not know about the complaint against Rice (lack of due diligence) or was this a lapse of transparency (not good for those enforcing disclosure laws)?

Pai voted against the net - neutrality order as a commissioner at the time, saying that the laws were «trying to solve a problem that didn't exist.»

Obama, speaking at the South by Southwest entertainment festival in Austin, Texas, last month, warned against «fetishizing our phones» and said that doing nothing to address law enforcement's encryption challenges «can't be the right answer.»

Texan regulators have had a lot on their plate: in addition to the filing against Bitconnect in early January by state officials, the state's banking commission also clamped down on AriseBank, for violating the law and using the term «bank» in its name, when it was not registered to do so.

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The United States doesn't have an overarching privacy law; rather, there is a cluster of common law that protects US citizens against the invasion of privacy.

When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you — when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self - sacrifice — you may know that your society is doomed.

And, while GDPR advocates have pointed to the lobbying Google and Facebook have done against the law as evidence that it will be effective, that is to completely miss the point: of course neither company wants to incur the costs entailed in such significant regulation, which will absolutely restrict the amount of information they can collect.

Paul has tried repeatedly to get law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, to pursue a case against Kivimaki, but says he was told that since he was a minor in Finland, there was little they could do.

1: Have no other gods — NOT A LAW = > In God we trust is on our legal currency 2: Make no graven image — NOT A LAW = > intellectual property is a God to many, we have tones of laws protecting against false copies 3: Don't take the name in vain — NOT A LAW = > false testimony is a crime as is swearing in some states 4: Honor the Sabbath — NOT A LAW = > employment law in many states prohibits forced labor on religious days 5: Honor thy father and mother — NOT A LAW = > minors have limited right to transact commerce under LAW = > In God we trust is on our legal currency 2: Make no graven image — NOT A LAW = > intellectual property is a God to many, we have tones of laws protecting against false copies 3: Don't take the name in vain — NOT A LAW = > false testimony is a crime as is swearing in some states 4: Honor the Sabbath — NOT A LAW = > employment law in many states prohibits forced labor on religious days 5: Honor thy father and mother — NOT A LAW = > minors have limited right to transact commerce under LAW = > intellectual property is a God to many, we have tones of laws protecting against false copies 3: Don't take the name in vain — NOT A LAW = > false testimony is a crime as is swearing in some states 4: Honor the Sabbath — NOT A LAW = > employment law in many states prohibits forced labor on religious days 5: Honor thy father and mother — NOT A LAW = > minors have limited right to transact commerce under LAW = > false testimony is a crime as is swearing in some states 4: Honor the Sabbath — NOT A LAW = > employment law in many states prohibits forced labor on religious days 5: Honor thy father and mother — NOT A LAW = > minors have limited right to transact commerce under LAW = > employment law in many states prohibits forced labor on religious days 5: Honor thy father and mother — NOT A LAW = > minors have limited right to transact commerce under law in many states prohibits forced labor on religious days 5: Honor thy father and mother — NOT A LAW = > minors have limited right to transact commerce under LAW = > minors have limited right to transact commerce under 19.

There is nothing in the law that says a golf club can discriminate against those that do not fit within their rules.

Laws against murder exist because people don't want to be murdered themselves.

I only ask because currently it is against the law to r.ape and murder, although some people find these activities to be enjoyable... by not allowing them to do them aren't we imposing our morality on them?

I'm confident Jesus would have nothing against reform that was done the right way, the right reasons according to law.

This confidence in leadership individuals to sin and violate the laws of our earth, and do anything they want without regard to expose themselves and whole societies to extreme danger against the upheaval that can be unleashed.

It doesn't happen, and would be against the law.

We have criminal and civil law codes, but it's hardly necessary to post up little reminders like «Don't forget, murder is against the law», is it?

We, along with our numerous allies, had no probelm intervening once sentences were passed regarding the fate of certain Nazi party members, who clearly were engaged in crimes against humanity - even though the laws didn't even exist during the time of Nurnberg.

i really don't understand you catholics - you worship the pope - isn't that against jesus» law??

When the U.S. Muslim community sounds out LOUD and CLEAR, without equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to free speech, and the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold dear.

I do know that many of these disasters that are happening lately are because some people are supporting Liberal Democrat Politicians who in turn faciliate evil laws that are against God.

Did Mormons in the Mormon colonies in Mexico practice polygamy, which was against Mexican laws, after the Woodruff Manifesto?

If you don't believe me, then you have never tried to live or work in a Mormon - dominated area — they have no compunction whatsoever against lying or by - passing laws to get ahead at the expense of what they refer to as «gentiles» and shamelessly promote their own members (they literally keep a book of apostates and people like me who are unhireable, etc. once listed there).

Protesting is against the law of God for thats what the Jews did all their lives.

The real reason everyone is against polygamy is that it creates winners and losers in reproduction, and the men who wrote the laws don't want to be losers.

Good thing a women's rights are protected under secular law or there would be many an invasive procedure done against their will.

TruthPrevails, it does seem that far to many Christians don't realize that one day they may not be in the majority, and that by trying to encode their beliefs into law they are setting a precedent that may be used against them in the future.

That was against Chinese law, so he did not want to put his children in jeopardy by letting them in on the secret.

As for your seriously off base torture comparison, if we saw a drastic increase in violent crimes, and there was a public outcry for harsher punishments to try and serve as a deterrent, and the Bill was drafted, made open to the public, and the solid majority of the population didn't turn against it with protests, signatures, and contacting their representatives; maybe a torture law could make it (though it would never get past the Supreme Court as the Consttution is now, but we'll let that slide as a hypothetical).

Also, do you suggest this blog is David's way of rebelling against «legalism» or strict doctrine, precise laws and rules?

Don't these people love it when Christians and especially Catholics go against the moral law — it's a bit like giving them a security blanket to hug!

He did not know whether any allowance was made for the age of the accused nor «whether pardon is given to those who repent» nor «whether punishment attaches to the mere name apart from secret crimes, or to the secret crimes connected with the name».3 In reply, Trajan wrote that Christians «are not to be sought out, but if they are accused and convicted, they must be punished — yet on this condition, that whoso denies himself to be a Christian, and makes the fact plain by his action, that is by worshipping our gods, shall obtain pardon on his repentance, however suspicious his past conduct may be».4 The Emperor Hadrian (76 - 138; ruled 117 - 138) made clear that slanderous accusations against Christians were unacceptable and that it had to be proved that they had acted contrary to the laws.

Thayer's Lexicon, tied to Strongs and referencing Rom 1:26 means «that which is contrary to nature's law», i.e. against nature; It does not mean atypical or unusual at all.

I have also filed a complaint against Tony Jones» attorney and the family court judge (is she the attorney's former law partner and if so why didn't she recuse herself from this case?).

-- to correct believer bullsh!t — to argue against religion driven laws and influence — to keep an eye on the crazies that want to put the USA and Canada on the road to becoming a theocracy — to influence undecideds away from joining any religious cult (and all religios are cults)-- for the humor of the nuttiness of things believers believe, say and do

Without regulations, they can just hold up their hands and say there weren't any laws against what they did.

School records are NEVER open to the public, as it is against the law for them to do so.

When there is a rise in the incidence of burglary, do we say it throws into question laws against burglary?