(v. t.) To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken.
(v. t.) To procure privately, or by collusion; to procure by indirect means; to incite secretly; to instigate.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This was a blatant and outrageous attempt to suborn a member of parliament," said Mr Galloway.
(2) Here we have an allegation of suborning witnesses and perverting the course of justice.
(3) It is also likely that they have been suborned in T cells by the immunosuppressant drugs that are potent pseudosubstrate ligands that selectively block the signal transduction cascade.
(4) Some were alleged by the defence team to have suborned witnesses.
(5) Mr Bryant said later: "If newspapers are suborning police officers, encouraging them to think that there is money to be made from selling information, that can only be bad news for the criminal justice system."
(6) The Third World was also concerned that genuine concerns about the effects of another round of liberalisation on trade on the environment, jobs, cultural and social issues were being seen to be constantly suborned to pure economic interests.
(7) The problem of the PCC and its discredited predecessors – which turned a blind eye to evil practices from blagging to voicemail hacking – is that the big newspaper groups have run, funded and suborned it.
(8) It's shocking because it must be an offence to suborn a police officer, and the chequebook-enticed leaking from police investigations has all too often compromised them so seriously that no prosecution has been possible.
(9) It was victim to "a culture of misinformation" as orders to destroy intercepts, emails and files were simply disregarded; an intelligence community that seems neither intelligent nor a community commanding a global empire that could suborn the world's largest corporations, draw up targets for drone assassination, blackmail US Muslims into becoming spies and haul passengers off planes.
(10) He needs to tell people how this can occur and to make sure that preventing other people with similar evil or twisted intent from joining in this terrible fight and indeed suborning their families into those terrible images we saw yesterday.” Comment is being sought from Morrison.
(11) Taylor says: "He got a lot of things right – deforestation, the national lottery, the loss of privacy at the hands of intruding technology, the suborning of the proletariat with porn."
Unlawful
Definition:
(a.) Not lawful; contrary to law.
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”.