What's the difference between unlaw and unlay?

Unlaw


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To deprive of the authority or character of law.
  • (v. t.) To put beyond protection of law; to outlaw.
  • (v. t.) To impose a fine upon; to fine.
  • (n.) Any transgression or offense against the law.
  • (n.) A fine imposed as a penalty for violation of the 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”.

Unlay


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To untwist; as, to unlay a rope.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These features indicate that unlayered polymicrogyria is produced by circulatory failure occurring before the end of the period of neuroblast migration to the cortical plate.
  • (2) The cortical dysplasia includes: (1) thin unlayered cortical mantle with radial disposition but no horizontal organisation of the neurons; (2) microgyria with fused molecular layers; and (3) persisting transitory cells in the molecular layer (Cajal-Retzius cells, subpial granular layer).
  • (3) Two different conventional (acid-base) glass-ionomers were studied with the use of layered and unlayered specimens of dimensions 6 mm (height) x 4 mm (diameter) and 12 mm (height) x 6 mm (diameter).
  • (4) In type 2 dysplasia, or unlayered micropolygyria, individual cells showed relative paucity of lateral dendritic arborization.
  • (5) Unlayered polymicrogyria was analyzed in four patients with established lesions and in one 19- to 20-week-old fetus with lesions in a formative stage whose mother had suffered a serious accident two weeks before.
  • (6) In the unlayered, ventral cochlear nucleus, however, neurons carry information in their temporal firing patterns.
  • (7) Three anatomical cases of unlayered polymicrogyria associated with agenesis of the corpus callosum and heterotopias are presented.

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