(a.) Not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love.
Example Sentences:
(1) A former Labour minister, Nicholas Brown, said the public were frightened they "were going to be spied on" and that "illegally obtained" information would find its way to the public domain.
(2) Chapman and the other "illegals" – sleeper agents without diplomatic cover – seem to have done little to harm American national security.
(3) The New York Times also alleged that the Met had not passed full details about how many people were victims of the illegal practice to the CPS because it has a history of cooperation with News International titles.
(4) Chadwick felt that Customs and Trading Standards needed to continue their war on illegal tobacco – if not, efforts to tackle smoking could be undermined.
(5) Gibbs was sent off in the first half at Stamford Bridge for handball, despite replays clearly showing it was his team-mate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who illegally deflected an Eden Hazard shot.
(6) While circulating the quarries is illegal – you risk a fine of up to €60 – neither the IGC nor the police seem to mind the veteran cataphiles who possess a good knowledge of the underground space, and who respect their heritage.
(7) A fortnight ago the two countries signed a US$27 million deal to tackle deforestation on the island of Sumatra - a key problem in Indonesia where 80 per cent of emissions come from deforestation, both by legal and illegal loggers.
(8) The campaign has used mobile billboards warning illegal immigrants to "go home or face arrest".
(9) Time suggests that the FBI inquiry has been extended from a relatively narrow look at alleged malpractices by News Corp in America into a more general inquiry into whether the company used possibly illegal strongarm tactics to browbeat rival firms, following allegations of computer hacking made by retail advertising company Floorgraphics.
(10) The announcement comes amid mounting frustration in the international community over Israel’s continued settlement activity, regarded by many countries as illegal.
(11) Trump might claim that the loss of manufacturing jobs or the influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico is a national security crisis that justifies his invocation of this law, and imposition of the tariff.
(12) Galli said there were already about 200,000 hospitalisations of women who have undergone a clandestine termination every year, and a suspected 1 million illegal abortions before the epidemic.
(13) The immigration minister, Mark Harper, said: in a statement: "Today's operations highlight the routine work we are carrying out every day to stamp out illegal working.
(14) While his citizens were being beaten and tormented in illegal detention, spokesmen for the then prime minister, Tony Blair, declared: "The Italian police had a difficult job to do.
(15) Euthanasia – killing someone painlessly, usually to relieve suffering – is also illegal.
(16) But illegal action will only ruin any chance of dialogue with Tehran.
(17) After five days watching birds illegally shot down and becoming embroiled in tense stand-offs with the police and hunters, Packham was summoned to a police station and interviewed for five hours.
(18) "The government will ban qat so that we can protect vulnerable members of our communities and send a clear message to our international partners and qat smugglers that the UK is serious about stopping the illegal trafficking of qat."
(19) Last week, Theresa May announced that, as part of her immigration bill , private landlords will be required, under the threat of a £3,000 fine, to ensure that "illegal immigrants" are not given access to their properties.
(20) Lieberman said: "[Amazon's] decision to cut off WikiLeaks now is the right decision and should set the standard for other companies WikiLeaks is using to distribute its illegally seized material.
Stuffer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, stuffs.
Example Sentences:
(1) The "crack" (cocaine alkaloid) epidemic has resulted in an increasing number of hospitalizations of "crack-vial body-stuffers," or patients who ingest "crack-vials" in an attempt to avoid prosecution.
(2) A novel polystuffer method has been developed that permits vector arms to be purified by simple precipitation and which allows reliable identification of clones that have reincorporated any part of the stuffer.
(3) Modern candidates may well have a Facebook accounts, Twitter feeds and blogs – three things that barely existed in 2005 – yet they would be better off with an army of envelope stuffers, leafleters and doorstep persuaders.
(4) EMBL 4 DNA was digested with Bam HI and Sal I and viral DNA was inserted into the "stuffer" region.
(5) The SfiI sites and stuffer can be subcloned as a cassette to permit directional cloning in other vectors, as there are several restriction enzyme sites flanking this region to the 5' and 3'.
(6) In one series of experiments, a modified cosmid vector containing stuffer fragments was used to prepare cosmid libraries containing partial SphI digests of 25 to 35 kb.
(7) The imaging findings of a crack cocaine "body stuffer" are presented along with findings from in vitro experimentation with crack cocaine.
(8) Cocaine liberation of a known quantity of drug is dependent on the wrapping method and material used; thus, a good history from the "body-stuffer" is essential to predict potential cocaine liberation and toxicity.
(9) The clinical course and post mortem findings of a 57 year old woman stuffering from polymyositis are reported.
(10) Plasmid vectors are similar to large capacity phage vectors, but can be maintained in vivo without a stuffer fragment.