What's the difference between illegitimacy and unlawfulness?
Illegitimacy
Definition:
(n.) The state of being illegitimate.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is suggested that the Act has had little effect on the birth rate or illegitimacy and that there may have been an increase in criminal abortion.
(2) In Sweden, the illegitimacy ratio is currently close to 1 out-of wedlock birth in every 2 births.
(3) The rate of illegitimacy among scoliotic patients was half that expected.
(4) This is consistent with the findings of previous research and with our hypothesis; with the black family pattern of lower rates of marriage, higher rates of illegitimacy and higher divorce rates, the sequencing of marriage has no long lasting consequences on marital stability.
(5) The cultural construction of illegitimacy and maternity is shown to be a dimension of class relations having an impact on health policy throughout Jamaica's history.
(6) The rising degree of illegitimacy among teenagers has prompted many physicians to provide contraception to such groups.
(7) Yesterday, his voice was among those that cropped up in a hatchet-job run by the Times – titled "the fall of new Labour", and focused on the supposed illegitimacy of the younger Miliband's leadership win.
(8) Possible reasons for this change include an increase in 'anomie' shown by a rise in the rates of crime, illegitimacy and admissions to hospital for alcoholism, a decline in social cohesion revealed by a fall in the marriage rate and a rise in the number of separated couples, and an increase in unemployment.
(9) Julian Fellowes has done a fine job of portraying many of the difficulties experienced by women in the early 20th century: death in childbirth, destitution due to illegitimacy, the impact wrought by the horror of war.
(10) What has been the recent trend in illegitimacy in the United States?
(11) Risk of spontaneous pre-term birth was found to be related to low maternal age, low maternal smoking, low social class, illegitimacy, threatened abortion, and a previous history of antepartum hemorrhage, perinatal loss, or low birth weight livebirths.
(12) He holds informal seminars with local ranchers, proselytizing for the militia’s cause about the federal government “tyranny” – and the illegitimacy of federal land management and custody.
(13) We argue that the illegitimacy ratio is the better index of the social consequences of out-of-wedlock childbearing and that the high ratios of recent decades are unlikely to abate in the foreseeable future.
(14) No significant associations were found with illegitimacy, area of residence, previous spontaneous abortion, essential hypertension, mild toxaemia, chronic or acute infections or other conditions.
(15) The trend towards increasing illegitimacy was slowed down, but not reversed.
(16) Review of other demographic findings indicated that other factors potentially predisposing to retardation, including low socioeconomic status, illegitimacy, high birth order, poor maternal reproductive history and increased consanguinity, were more common in the histories of native children.
(17) In 1968 Illsley and Gill examined the rise in illegitimacy in the decade 1955-65 and showed that this rise, unlike rises in the first and second world wars, had not been accompanied by a fall in prenuptial conceptions but by a rise.
(18) Socio-cultural variables are assumed to play a minimal role, given the high rate of illegitimacy.
(19) An adjustment was made to eliminate the effects of some potential confounding variables, namely high parity and maternal age and illegitimacy, without basically changing the results.
(20) An especially high mortality was associated with the maternal risk factors illegitimacy, age below 20 and Turkish nationality.
Unlawfulness
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Simon said he ruled against Belhaj because American, as well as British, officials were involved in the operation – the rendition of Belhaj and his pregnant wife to Tripoli in 2004 – which Belhaj wanted a British court to declare unlawful.
(2) On that basis, the court declared the renewal unlawful.
(3) The film director faced a jail term after he pleaded guilty to having unlawful sex with Samantha Gailey (now Geimer), then aged 13.
(4) "It may not be nice, kind or flattering, but to put it as unlawful would be startling," White said.
(5) UK-US surveillance regime was unlawful ‘for seven years’ Read more The admission that the regime surrounding state snooping on legally privileged communications has also failed to comply with the European convention on human rights comes in advance of a legal challenge, to be heard early next month, in which the security services are alleged to have unlawfully intercepted conversations between lawyers and their clients to provide the government with an advantage in court.
(6) "When, not withstanding any caveats or prior assurances, there is still considered to be a real possibility of mistreatment and therefore there is considered to be a risk that the agencies' actions could be judged to be unlawful, the actions may not be taken without authority at a senior level.
(7) The tribunal added that Dean's dismissal was a consequence of unlawful harassment arising "not from treating the claimant differently from non-disabled associates [in enforcing the 'look policy'], but in treating her the same in circumstances where it should have made an adjustment".
(8) This administrative tool could enable certain immigrants living in the US unlawfully to remain in the country while they apply for a change of status.
(9) March 3, 2014 9.46am GMT David Smith (@SmithInAfrica) Nel reads more charges relating to unlawfully discharging firearms in 2012.
(10) Led by a handful of outspoken female voices, a rising tide of opinion has instead applauded Polanski's arrest for unlawful sex with a 13-year-old back in 1977.
(11) The families were appalled by the eventual verdict of accidental death rather than unlawful killing, and felt that the police force principally responsible for so many deaths had behaved, from the day of the disaster, without humanity.
(12) Asylum data breach: immigration unlawfully disclosed personal details Read more In an statement, the former deputy commander of the border protection command (BPC) Abigail Bradshaw said: “If Australia cannot effectively manage who can enter the country and the circumstances and conditions under which people enter then the security of the commonwealth is compromised.” She continued: “Current operations would be compromised by the release of this information.
(13) Last month McMullan admitted he personally commissioned private investigators to commit several hundred acts which could be regarded as unlawful, that use of illegal techniques was no secret at the paper, and that senior editors, including Coulson, must have been aware this was going on.
(14) The 29 people arrested are reportedly facing charges of joining an unlawful assembly under section 143 of the penal code, which carries a maxiumum 20-year jail term.
(15) Special intelligence operations are a new type of covert operation in which intelligence officers receive immunity from liability or prosecution where they may need to engage in conduct that would be otherwise unlawful.
(16) These ordinances give special protection to witnesses and power to restrict the places of residence of persons associating with unlawful societies, control traffic at night, and increase maximum penalties for certain offences."
(17) Clement-Jones told theguardian.com today that he had been assured the government's new clause 18 would allow for new regulations to be introduced that dealt with websites and other services that allow access to unlawfully copied material.
(18) Mark Lewis, the lawyer who acted for clients including Eriksson, said: “There are many more people who will now be able to make claims against the Mirror Group titles in respect of their unlawful activities.” Lewis is the lawyer who also brought the first successful phone-hacking legal claim against Rupert Murdoch’s now-defunct News of the World.
(19) HRW said the proposed relocation would unlawfully reduce refugees' access to food, clothing, housing, healthcare and education.
(20) It alleged that Martinez took part in “racist and sexist comments as well as unwanted touching and other unlawful conduct”.