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
That’s because it lacks a critical deterrent in white collar crime cases: criminal charges against TD’s top executives who were in place while the lawbreaking was in full cry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024
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
Moral deterioration follows from the bad habits formed, from the encouragement to lawbreaking and independence of parental authority, and from the evil environment of the people and places with which they come into contact.
From Society Its Origin and Development by Henry Kalloch Rowe