(n.) A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection.
(v. t.) To deprive of the benefit and protection of law; to declare to be an outlaw; to proscribe.
(v. t.) To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement; as, to outlaw a debt or claim; to deprive of legal force.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first state to outlaw alcohol entirely was, not surprisingly, a Protestant stronghold, the New England state of Maine, which introduced Prohibition in 1851.
(2) Uruguay is trying to bring the cannabis market under state control by undercutting and outlawing the traffickers.
(3) Instead of dealing with a political problem, China has sought confrontation and control – threatening new national security laws that outlaw treason .
(4) In an overpopulated future Los Angeles that never sees the sunlight, Deckard is tasked with taking out a gang of replicants (android outlaws) who have escaped to Earth from an off-world colony.
(5) The picture was clouded by job losses at the other end of the age range, after employers exploited a final chance to impose mandatory retirements which were outlawed this month .
(6) Players were warned before this year's tournament that officials would be rigorously enforcing its rules on "almost entirely white" clothing – meaning that the bright underwear, coloured soles and conspicuously contrasting trim spotted in previous years would be outlawed.
(7) The laws seek to outlaw undercover surveillance by animal rights activists inside factory farms, under threat of harsh punishment.
(8) The sanctity of voting in private may be one of the pillars of democracy, but in an age of byzantine disenfranchisement rules and empowering social-media platforms, outlawing a picture of your candidate selection is a missed opportunity and a failure of imagination.
(9) The legislative assembly approved, in its first reading, a bill which outlawed the promotion of homosexuality, transsexuality and paedophilia to minors.
(10) Later he meets the wife of a notorious outlaw who offers to teach him to shoot.
(11) If tax avoidance were outlawed, tens of billions of pounds would be liberated which could then be invested in public services.
(12) Delhi has long accused Islamabad of using Pakistan-based militant groups such as the outlawed Lashkar-e-Taiba against its forces in Kashmir – a claim that Islamabad denies.
(13) Pelek was fired from her job two months ago, the latest in a series of sackings at the newspaper after the publication in 2013 of the minutes of a secret meeting held in Oslo between Turkish intelligence agents and representatives of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK).
(14) But everyone knows that the scars of their 3-0 loss to the Americans in the 1930 World Cup are still fresh, so expect the Belgians to scamper around like puppies in a pile of bones play like men with the weight of the world on their shoulders tonight, and for the American Outlaws to be making pointed references to Uruguay 30 from the stands throughout.
(15) Unless those at the bottom of the heap can represent themselves, and the inarticulate will not know how to woo judges, they will be outlaws.
(16) Federal law continues to outlaw possession, sale, cultivation and transport of cannabis, but laws in Alaska, Colorado, the District of Colombia, Oregon, and Washington state have effectively legalised the drug.
(17) Signed by Uganda's veteran president, Yoweri Museveni, in February, the law calls for homosexuals to be jailed for life, outlaws the promotion of homosexuality and obliges Ugandans to denounce gay people to the authorities.
(18) There are innumerable examples around the world where content that is declared illegal under the laws of one country, would be deemed legal in others: Thailand criminalises some speech that is critical of its King, Turkey criminalises some speech that is critical of Ataturk, and Russia outlaws some speech that is deemed to be ‘gay propaganda’.
(19) The UK’s Cameron suggested earlier in the week he wants to outlaw certain forms of encryption, which could potentially lead to some of the world’s most popular messaging apps (like iMessage and WhatsApp) being banned in the UK.
(20) He said the firm had also paid bribes to delay Indonesia outlawing one of its poisonous products prolonging "damage to the people of Indonesia and the environment".
Renegade
Definition:
(n.) One faithless to principle or party.
(n.) An apostate from Christianity or from any form of religious faith.
(n.) One who deserts from a military or naval post; a deserter.
(n.) A common vagabond; a worthless or wicked fellow.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Abul Fotouh, an independent Islamist and Brotherhood renegade, also appeals to many liberals and supporters of the revolution, as well as some Salafists.
(2) Where people were terrorised into leaving, Karadžić claimed it was the work of “criminals or renegades, and people carrying out retaliation whose own homes were burned”.
(3) His buddies – the far-right, climate-denying , UN-hating renegades who formed his campaign brains trust – are egging him on to simply break it, to smash it on the floor for a good laugh.
(4) He discussed his early influences and rock’n’roll renegades, telling us what’s so great about the bands that he’s booked for his takeover of the ATP festival at Prestatyn in April.
(5) He can truly be held hostage by a handful of renegade conservatives in his caucus.
(6) At dawn, the muezzin's call to prayer was drowned out by the sound of mortar fire as troops loyal to Saleh fought with a division of renegade soldiers for control over strategic parts of the capital.
(7) With renegade former Liberal MP Geoff Shaw now an independent, the major parties are locked at 43 MPs each, plus the Speaker.
(8) She’s such a renegade.’ “I couldn’t get the party people onboard until after the primary.
(9) Even as the Nairobi talks were under way, a key regional capital in South Sudan reportedly changed hands once again as a renegade tribal warlord attacked the town of Malakal and declared his allegiance to Machar’s rebels.
(10) There aren’t enough Trotskyists, entryists, devious Tories and random renegades to explain such an overwhelming victory.
(11) Khalifa Haftar: renegade general causing upheaval in Libya Read more Many suspect he seeks national power.
(12) Russell's career stuttered following the release of the cult 1980 drama Altered States, which starred William Hurt as a renegade scientist although he continued to direct, in film and on TV, throughout the 1980s and 90s.
(13) We’ll certainly be talking to him and the Renegades about it.
(14) A third Islamist, Abdel Moneim Aboul Futouh, a renegade former Brotherhood member, is also running.
(15) Sana'a is now gripped by street battles and exchanges of shelling between Republican Guards led by Saleh's son and a division of renegade soldiers who have been backing the pro-democracy demonstrators.
(16) What western leaders celebrating their victory do not and cannot say is how many civilians died in the war – some estimates rise into the tens of thousands; what are the chances of establishing a genuinely democratic, inclusive government in Tripoli; whether rival political and tribal factions and Islamists may yet turn on each other; how, in such a scenario, Britain and other EU countries can prevent mass emigration from and through Libya into southern Europe; when, if ever, the renegade Gaddafi and his cronies will face the international criminal court; and most problematic of all, how the US, Britain and France square their robust intervention in Libya with their hands-off policy towards Syria, a strategically more important country where the lethal repression of civilians exceeds anything attempted by Gaddafi this year.
(17) Nevertheless, the future success of more reliable renegades like Senator Warren depends on their being able to capitalise on simmering party divisions like this – arguably in much the same way that the Tea Party has leveraged power among Republicans so successfully in recent years.
(18) Khalifa Haftar: renegade general causing upheaval in Libya Read more Crispin Blunt, the chair of the foreign affairs select committee, is one of the British voices urging the US not to be lured by the myth of a strong man.
(19) But Llew Smith was careful not to get expelled from Labour as 20 party veterans were (it's in the rules) for openly endorsing the renegade Law.
(20) Group-IB, which runs one of Russia's two official internet watchdogs, said the number of malicious .su websites doubled in 2011 and again in 2012, surpassing the vast number of renegade sites on .ru and its newer Cyrillic-language counterpart.