18 example sentences using lawful.
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In the industry we call this "lawful interception" and it's how the government snoops on people.
Or if they find they need a law to make conduct lawful, they just write a new law or reinterpret an old one and keep on going.
A search of your car is a big deal. The police are not lawfully entitled to invade the privacy of your car without reason.
So while it may sound weird, it turns out that obtaining a statement outside Miranda but not admitting it in court is lawful.
Releasing them put Manning firmly in the "violating lawful orders" camp.
Municipalities should find a way to make Uber lawful, but I'm not sure Uber should be able to make that happen by fiat.
So he was charged with "disrupting a lawful government activity" - even though in fact those BLM auctions are NOT lawful.
"The rumor that China used a system Google put in place to enable lawful intercepts, which I used as a news hook for this essay, has not been confirmed.
If Manning had, say, only released extremely strong evidence of war crimes, I might agree that hiding that evidence was itself unlawful.
This mirrors the actual experiences they will have later in life, where they will have freedom, but still be required to operate with the bounds of lawful society.
The lawful objectives of that search are either officer safety or preservation of evidence.
I'm genuinely scared at how far my government has gone in persecuting lawful, nonviolent protesters and activists.
These may have been unnecessarily classified, but were not unlawfully classified.
The idea was that strong crypto would be outlawed, and the government would instead provide regulated crypto that would include overt backdoors for lawful access.
A key message from Silverglate's book is that because it is impossible to know if one's behavior is lawful[1], it is impossible to be sure that one operates within the contours of the law at all times.
>when enough members of the military decide to do what's better for the country against the lawful orders of the elected government that they serve, we call it a coupI'm not disputing that Manning broke the laws of the military.
Similarly, that office sought to imprison a man for collecting user emails to compile a list of best-selling books, despite the fact that the email collection would have uncontroverably have been lawful had it occurred a nanosecond later.
Specifically, pursuant to this interpretation, an unauthorized intentional monitoring of a cellular phone call could be lawful should the content of the communication relate to vehicles or persons in distress, but unlawful otherwise.
Lawful definitions
conformable to or allowed by law; "lawful methods of dissent"
according to custom or rule or natural law
See also: rule-governed
having a legally established claim; "the legitimate heir"; "the true and lawful king"
authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law; "a legitimate government"
See also: legitimate licit