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illegal

Not valid. Not authorized. See illegal operation.
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It's illegal, but it's illegality in a good cause; that's the risk, and my client is prepared to pay for it.
The sale was illegal; you can pay him back his money and force him to give the picture up."
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Maybe so, maybe not; but without ever having seen him, and judging only by his illegal and spectacular parentage, I will bet the odds of a bale of hay to a bran mash that he looks it.
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The royal policy had long been to weaken, by every means, legal or illegal, the strength of a part of the population which was justly considered as nourishing the most inveterate antipathy to their victor.
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You may be sure that no one connected with the Japanese Embassy here would be permitted for one single second to take part in any such illegal act.
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Exciting times are the lot of the fish patrol: in its history more than one dead patrolman has marked defeat, and more often dead fishermen across their illegal nets have marked success.
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A dispute with the Friends had already led to the beginning of his controversial writing when in 1660 the Restoration rendered preaching by persons outside the communion of the Church of England illegal, and he was arrested and imprisoned in Bedford jail.
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did; and to do the business at once an illegal ecclesiastical
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The Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) in Iloilo has asked the help of locals and village officials to curb illegal quarrying in their area.
PENRO-Iloilo seeks help of villages vs. illegal quarrying
Myanmar has exposed illegal import worth of 12.99 billion kyats (8.65 million U.S.
Illegal border imports threatening SMEs
MULTAN -- Multan Development Authority (MDA) issued warning to shopkeepers of MDA chowk to demolish their illegal constructions within next 24 hours.
MDA warns to demolish illegal constructions in 24 hrs
PESHAWAR -- During the ongoing operation against gas theft, the taskforce of SNGPL has disconnected 489 illegal connections, removed 290 tampered meters and seized 3,150 feet illegal pipeline in different areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Illegal gas connections severed

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