(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".
Waive
Definition:
(v. t.) A waif; a castaway.
(v. t.) A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.
(v. t.) To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.
(v. t.) To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
(v. t.) To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.
(v. t.) To desert; to abandon.
(v. i.) To turn aside; to recede.
Example Sentences:
(1) The HSE wants to streamline the assessment of new reactor designs by waiving certain aspects through a series of "exclusions".
(2) Told him we'll waive VAT on #BandAid30 so every penny goes to fight Ebola November 15, 2014 Thousands of onlookers turned out to watch the arrival of artists including One Direction, Paloma Faith, Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Ellie Goulding and Clean Bandit at Sarm studios in Notting Hill, west London .
(3) The chief executive has already waived his bonus for 2012 following the furore surrounding the £1m he was to be handed for 2011 before the political outcry forced him to hand it back.
(4) Under Spanish law, anyone who has more than €120,000 in undeclared income automatically faces a jail sentence, but this is generally waived if the offender agrees to pay.
(5) Ost claims that patients cannot make informed rational decisions without full information and that, therefore, the right to waive information also involves the right to waive one's responsibility to act as an autonomous moral agent.
(6) It directs agencies to “waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay” other penalties, fees, taxes and costs.
(7) The business secretary will instead back a voluntary scheme in which employers and staff can sign settlement agreements that would allow an employee to leave a company with a good reference providing they waived their right to pursue unfair dismissal proceedings at a tribunal.
(8) Lavery has waived his right to make an argument in court.
(9) But the Kumamoto governor was a fan, and cannily waived licensing fees for Kumamon, encouraging manufacturers to use him royalty-free.
(10) 2010 February: Waives £1.6m bonus after coming under pressure from ministers over his pay.
(11) Those who should never have been given loans and have fallen more than 30 days behind with repayments will have their debts wiped entirely, while a further 45,000 who are up to 30 days in arrears will have their interest and charges waived.
(12) Each day, he waived his right to a lawyer and his right to remain silent every day in writing, the affidavit states.
(13) Past fines ranged from €35,000-€50,000, against which organisers successfully appealed and had reduced or waived.
(14) The decision to waive the preferential treatment for the bailout fund on the Spanish rescue was a one-off that would not be repeated in any further programmes, Merkel said.
(15) They were, therefore, never “in law” and so could not be “oulawed”, hence they were “waived” instead.
(16) US telecommunications companies such as AT&T and T-Mobile are waiving the cost of texts offering donations.
(17) The assistant commissioner told MPs colleagues had written to the NYT again to urge them to waive that privilege because of the "quite exceptional circumstances" surrounding the case, but admitted he was "not hopeful".
(18) The EU agreed in September to waive tariffs on Pakistani textiles, but only temporarily.
(19) Vacant buildings are being pressed into service, and the usual high standards set by the immigration service are being waived.
(20) It has waived the administration fee for the duplicate ticket and sent you £50 in travel vouchers.