lawbreaking

Example Sentences

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The First Amendment protects the right to advocate such lawbreaking, but a nonprofit that enjoys tax privileges can lose those privileges for supporting unlawful conduct.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

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

It also found that several high-level company officials lied to the administrative law judge to hide the company’s lawbreaking.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2023

With all his lawbreaking, that's not how this should be settled in a country that abides by the rule of law.

From Salon • Aug. 22, 2023

The greatest state in the West, an empire in area and resources, had arisen and repudiated the old libel or barbarism, lawbreaking, and bloodshed.

From Roads of Destiny by Henry, O.