"mean" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In each case, prosecutors say, Mr. Pellicano set out to maintain that imbalance of power through extralegal means.
- I supposed the idea that Devore might resort to extralegal means of obtaining what he wanted had occurred to him, as well.
- But it is entirely another matter when a government condemns a foreign national to death and seeks to enforce the sentence by extralegal means: a bounty.
- The first part of Hirohito's reign took place against a background of financial crisis and increasing military power within the government, through both legal and extralegal means.
- Some landlords use extralegal means to evade rent controls and attempt to take advantage of housing conditions.
- Many law enforcement officials were prepared to see his death - even by extralegal means - as a public service homicide.
- That had stymied legal steadholder opposition to direct rule, and even if they'd wanted to, no Key had dared resort to extralegal means.
- But unilateral sanctions haven't worked, and extralegal means to destroy his grip are likely to produce a new dictator, not a democratic Panama.
- Since contract labor was illegal, labor brokers had to rely on extralegal means to enforce the migrants' repayment of their debt.
- If we have to resort to extralegal means to do so, that is a choice I can accept.
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