Legal in sentence

2905 examples of Legal in a sentence

It can be perfectly legal to post an outright lie.

And they didn't stop there: within five years, they'd secured legal rights from the state to manage over 200 square miles of ocean, eliminating destructive industrial trawlers from the waters.

Now, a lot of these people would qualify as refugees under the international legal definition.

Today, there are over 55,000 immigrants detained in the United States, many in remote detention facilities, far from any type of legal help.

We know that today, people are migrating because of climate change, and that more will do so in the future, but we simply don't have a legal system to deal with this type of migration.

But those of us in a position to advocate for those changes are too busy suing our government to keep the meager legal protections that refugees enjoy under the current law.

They've created parallel, fascist-style legal systems in which migrants have none of the rights that form the basis of a democracy, the alleged foundation of the countries in which they're seeking refuge.

History shows us that the first group to be vilified and stripped of their rights is rarely the last, and many Americans and Europeans seem to accept an opaque and unjust legal system for noncitizens, because they think they are immune.

Foods, herbal supplements, legal drugs, and illicit substances can all cause drug interactions.

That would save hundreds of millions of dollars in legal costs in the United States and would decrease the cost of medicine for everyone.

Often the legal system is broken down so you can't even get access to land.

She had no experience with the legal system, no money, and no power in the eyes of the court.

Then he’ll have to choose any of the four numbers, and the process repeats until you can’t keep him inside the board with legal moves.

And, in a way, that's exactly how packets move around the Internet, sometimes in as many as 25 or 30 hops, with the intervening entities that are passing the data around having no particular contractual or legal obligation to the original sender or to the receiver.

It turns out that somebody lampooned here wrote to the snarky guy that does the site, not with a legal threat, not with an offer of payment, but just said, "Hey, would you mind?"

This is the only federally funded site where it is legal to cultivate cannabis for scientific research in the United States.

So I started writing legal briefs for them.

To go back to the legal context, at the Sally Clark trial all of the lawyers just accepted what the expert said.

And just to finish in the context of the legal system.

A mix of legal and illegal activities is used.

Now, again we see a mix of legal and illegal activities.

Imagine that you're a community facing an immigration raid, and at that very moment, at that right moment, via livestream, you could pull in a hundred legal observers.

And as soon as I started this work, I received a memorandum from the World Bank, from the legal department first, in which they said, "You are not allowed to do this.

The principal didn't want to stand up to the parent because he didn't want to get dragged into some legal proceedings.

But somehow or another, in the last couple of decades, the land of the free has become a legal minefield.

And so we peer through a legal microscope, and look at everything.

And yet, we've been trained to squint into this legal microscope, hoping that we can judge any dispute against the standard of a perfect society, where everyone will agree what's fair, and where accidents will be extinct, risk will be no more.

The trial lawyers say, "Well, this legal fear makes doctors practice better medicine."

Because they're not sure, and they don't want to take legal responsibility.

You could have a separate section of a law library around each of the following legal concepts: due process, special education, no child left behind, zero tolerance, work rules ... it goes on.

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