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/ˌɛkstɹəˈɫiɡəɫ/
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ADJECTIVE
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not regulated or sanctioned by law
there were only extralegal recourses for their grievances
How To Use extralegal In A Sentence
- Such a system of extralegal detention, sometimes called black jails, "damages the legitimate rights of petitioners and seriously damages the government's image, " the article said.
- In theory, the Communist Party allows citizens to lobby the central government on matters of local corruption, the illegal seizure of land and extralegal detentions.
- These so-called exigent letters, which were often used when no emergency actually existed, were an extralegal contrivance that violated ECPA, bureau policy, and guidelines issued by the attorney general. Reason Magazine
- Our country is headed to becoming a police state, and this kind of extralegal atrocity is a major step in that direction. Think Progress » Malkin On Detainee Suicides: ‘Boo-Freakin-Hoo’
- Print US urges China to stop lawyer and activist abductions The United States government has called on China to stop what it calls the "extralegal" abductions and detentions of lawyers and human rights activists. BBC News - Home
- Its participants drew on an American tradition of collective organization and crowd action which held extralegal activity to be legitimate when justice was otherwise elusive.
- To think otherwise is to propose that people are engaging in extralegal economic activity solely for grins and giggles. Over-worked or Over-taxed?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- The poor, not being stupid, of course end up building, holding, buying and selling their domains in an "extralegal" market - a domain outside the official law. OmniNerd
- While admitting the break-ins were "extralegal", he justified it as protecting the "greater good". Somervell County Salon
- I’ve got a post up at TechDirt, where I’ll henceforth be contributing occasionally, about John Ashcroft’s recent op-ed defending telecom immunity for cooperation in extralegal wiretaps. Gettin’ Down and Techdirty